Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-02
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Our Correspondent Makes Some
Com ments on what he Sees.

Couldn't See ii all In Six Years Sail
ent Features Have Been Notea
Many Exhibits That Give False Ideas
of American Industries-But in
Many Things we Excei-Many Very
shlew Foreign Exhibitors are There.
PARIS, France, June %, 1900-1
have by this time been able TO make
a study and form a general opinion of
the Paris Universal Exposition of
/ 1900 There are Of course many
things / have not seen and many that
could not see If | should continue
inspection for six years. But the sal
lent features Of the Exposition have
been noted. 1t is in great part
ephemeral architecture; it Is Ia great
part fake, but after all spurious char
acteristics are eliminated it will re-
main the most stupendous effort and
| accomplishment as an exposition the
world has ever seen. | shall adhere
| to my determination to avoid at
! tempts to paint in words architecture,
artificial water works and illnmina-
| tions. | have never seen any fire
works that were comparable TO sun
set or flash of lightning. The arehi-
lecture here with its toy shop effects,
! like that at Chicago, is good enough
to be torn down. This and these are
no part of the exposition aud in my
opinion are as intrusive and as much
out of place as would be the latest
! gowns, hat and high heeled shoes on
! the Venus of Milo The only matter
worthy the visitors consideration are
/ the results of the competitive efforts
Of the worlds artists. artizans, think
ers and strivers, everyone seeking TO
attain something little more accept
able in his special domain. And you
can see these results here. Ii there
was ever microcosm it is now with
in the Champ de Mars and the Espla-
made DIES Invalides. From Finland
to Cape Colony and from Alaska &c
/ Chilli the continents and islands APP
pear to have striyen and wrought
with better output than ever before.
| say you can see it but it will require
more than glance. 1t will require
study aud discernment, for the ar
rangement is not the BEST and for
comparative study it is frequently
misleading and often Intentionally SO.
Some exhibitors under the United
States flag and in the United States
sections have no right to be there.
/ They are not Americans and have no
houses in America. 1t may be the
same with other countries. As seen
| in the Exposition there is not much
to flatter our National pride, but we
| do not need flattery-we need the
truth and in heroic quantities. False
1 teeth, dental instruments, corn-cob
pipes and eye glasses are not repre-
/ sentatives of the manufacturing skill
and energy of the United States and
/ Mr.. Mckinley or Mr.. Peck should not
/ have permitted dealers in these TO
have SO much space aud such con-
spicuous place in the United States
is said the Emperor Of Germany per-
sonally inspected every exhibit of that
country and that nothing was allowed
to pass to Paris without his approval.
| There must be some exaggeration In
this story for the German exhibit is
large and varied as well as fine, and
no one person could have given it
more than very formal inspection.
But it has evidently been selected
with great judgment and care, and
there is no doubt but that both the
United States and England are out
classed by Germany in large variety
of manufactured articles.
In some things we, OF course, excel.
Our tobacco exhibit is by far the
! finest at the fair But to indicate
how we are outdone in diplomacy or
what may be called exhibition politics
let me instance the following, all of
which may be traced / think, to the
negligence of our Commissioner. We
have but one man in fifteen on the
tobacco jury and he is Cuban who
has lived for many years in Paris and
boasts that he never sold or used
| leaf of American tobacco. He is in
short the representative OF the largest
Cuban tobacco manufacturer and
from habit and interest lnimical to
American tobacco. Yet he has had
himself appointed as the only Ameri
can jurist, and this when our exhibit
| is finer than and probably as large as
that of all other countries put togeth
| er. There are very many instances
of this kind showing a lack of push
and enterprise on the part of our rep
resentatives and an Indifference to
the interests of our people and coun-
try that is lnexplicable in anyway
complimentary to them.
In the class OF harvesters and bind
ers and some other classes OF agricul-
tural implements | am told by an
authority, and believe from what
can see we are much in advance of all
other countries. This authority says
we are about ten years in advance.
Our machines are lighter but withal
stronger though in mechanism sub
stantially the same as theirs for they