Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-05-21

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sns end uassssrs dsughtes In the
p~ruxysa II his vtriAs love He he
pat upsn HE back the burden hs
MixLt. wish . less noble Axabisioo.
have pss In his srsns and lAi. down -
s~isish sieep
Besose the sxhihisica chic>go v~s
virtually out Ut debt iss city debt
wzs perhaps i've million dotisrs. IL he's
sb~ysd the iaw u IL origin and mossr
SsseA iss term 10 ~osk IL oss In mind
aud musrie. Chicago Is . specalssos
such ~ shy iock and his bsethrsu never
ArAlt with They think they have gos
AnsOuios pound of hesh near his heart,
bat that spot of nesh u reserved fos
Possi. a. LasG Woman 10 IN this ex-
hibd,ina- The chi-f woman OF che
couu,ry to-day u Potter Palmer's wife
her senior and rapid boy once. when
he was Marshall Fields predecessor ~
the bargain counter aud the pageant
Of damsrls and DANES awoke his pat
risrchsl spirit His wife found oom-
peua>tion for % mesh merchant in a
great task, and has held up one end of
this fair like Ruth holding up ono end
q boaa's blanket.
You car hear the other females roar
for envy. Here u . woman who has
not only got the rich Potter. bat tho
Potter's earth, Phoebe Cousins. tho
Phoebe bird. breaks out in tearS 70 see
Mr. Palmer ~ close to Duchess Vera-
qua Hut tact. victorious tact, and
beauty like ZenobiA's, yet mark the
MERCHANTS wife I saw her when =
girl: being of the gSselle's eyes.
with skin the rose might envy and cry
ont ara nat. like Miss Cousins when
stung by the thorn. Can that flower
live? I thought She has lived and
propAgat.d. and by prugress without
sensation has done q great public act.
and shown woman how To rise without
insulting man or playing the virgo.
of what avail would II be Ia take the
world from man and be msnless?
81 il can be- said of Nrs- Palmer.
after she obtained the husband. and
here In where the pain Of envy Is the
wor-s-"To her that hath shall be
given. and from her that hath not
shall he taken away even that which
she hath"
The world will get much from this
exhibition IL Chicago does not IL Is U
tremendous equation 10 put. say fifteen
million dollars in this show and beg
the city dry. and then he robbed by
public envy and superstition Of .
month and half of Sundays, and be
reduced Ia six months Of tweuty-four
days each, including stormy days. for
an income and the return of the prin-
cipal. The interest alone must de-
mand one hundred and fifty Thousand
dollars q month The principal must
come out Of the gates and rentA- But
every being here il % much of . spec
ulator that half the Chica8oAns declare
the fair has already paid for itself In
tho enhancement of rial estate. This
tower of Babel had ring in its poly
glot tongue. II appeared to be the
building into heavca. but 10 was only
making Chicago OF In the south. after
the fashion OF the elephant who trurn-
pets and blows against the wall be-
hind the penny till the penny rises up
and walks into the elephants pro-
bn&eis-
Some day. perhaps. they will get Chr
caSo so far south that it will have an
other port in the docks Of South Chi
ergo. and will remark 10 the Chicago
river: Here. you have stunk long
enough. Well all you up. like the an
cicnt Jews. and cross you on the dry
land"
say tho world win get back its In
vestment In this fair. Women will
rise from the event, not IN be . terror,
like the women Of the French revolu-
ton. but n reel influence with an or
RanizAtion.
The Woman's building here is an en-
tity. like the Electrical building; il Is
. great department. Man will be glad
to see wor.an more self-sustaining. less
dependent upon him for every happi-
ness. and il ne surreuders some Of his
jealousy he will be happier for IT,
No man knew when this fair started
what u revolution IL would make. The
great materialist. the diScoverer Of
earth. il the master of the pending
century Columbus has come forth
Ike tsibtsTpT IssrooTboS8 tuoIi uf>
sleep nj the bottom of the river where
ne sunk in arrnor lie bestrides the
eiSy aad the world Man. cease u
b. maudlin." the old republican says.
III discovered - much when knew
y, little what worlds remain before
you to discover Is you 60 sailing
through the notes 81 ether To the orbs
where your fellow planetarisns utilize
their suns and satellites?"
The notices anil facts around this
exhibition are the confessions of faith
81 a new disp~nsation. like this one I
read yesterday over tho great arch be-
hind the golden statue Of the Republic:
Religious liberation j. the chief vic
tory o. the four hundred years since
Columbus" Bishop bonner Calvin
read this snd lost his patience. Said
he They might just rs well have
said: Don't notice the child Religion
snd he won't nisl,ehave'
Facts are written up all over the
rian, and fairy structures When
xriuyow,ler was discovered when
printing was found out. what time
Cdp~rnicus paraded and counted tho
stars. anil put the earth at the tail in
stead Of at the center 81 the con.tel-
iarions \ new faith has arisen. the
nations stop to tax. heed aud Column
S,,s rules The minds ~ men.
Gsonss ALFRED TowSsSSp.