Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-29
Disgruntled.F aIr Directors.


the .'innards" Of the Worlds Fair
management was shown when the
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee resigned because nothing was
ever referred to the committee and its
recommendations were never needed.
That ia the story of the committees.
They are ignored when they are not
kicked and trampled upon by the men
at the top, but 1t is seldom that this con-
duct has evoked such strong protest as
anne from the head Of the Ways and
Means Committee at the last meeting
of the directors. The Worlds Fair is
q one-man institution to such an ex-
tent that the entire directory is per-
meated with disgust at its W i'm
potency. The Fair project has
reached a stage at which the stronger
men in the directory find it wise to
withdraw from the places in which
they were hobbled, and to let those
who have hogged the honors and
emoluments and patronage take all
the responsibility for possible errors
and mistakes. 1t is not a trifling
matter when the chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee resigns. 1t is
an incident calculated to make people
wonder if there may perchance be
some trouble about the funds or their
expenditure. 1t gives color to the
story that the Exposition has in some
particulars 'sbitten off more than 1t can
chew" and the rumor that the time
has arrived for a general pairing down
of estimates. The Exposition has not
enough money, it is said, to carry out
the plans even after half a dozen modi-
f~ications, and there must be more con-
traction and restriction and retrench-
ment. This is all a good thing, but it
does not, for all that, reflect much
credit upon the gentleman who is ''the
whole show that he has gone ahead
80 rapidly that he has to be called
back to say nothing of being called
down. Still. it is to be hoped that the
dissatisfaction in the directory, voiced
by a man of such weight and dlstlnc-
ton in the community as the ex-chair-
nan of the Ways and Means Com
mittee shall not become more general
or more vocal. 1t is too late now to
regret the growth of the one-man
power. 1t would be unfortunate ii
the country at large were to learn to
what extent there is a lack of harmony
between the head of the Fair and the
directory. A general knowledge of
the situation and a general discussion
OF conditions pertaining to the inner
workings OF the Fair would injure the
undertaking beyond all computation.
The directors must now hold their
peace. Their personal pique or dis
comfort is a small matter to weigh
against the success OF the Fair. They
must grin and bear with ''the insolence
of Office" to the growth of which they
contributed in the beginning. II they
think they see the Fair being used as
a factor in the creation of a Presi-
Dental boom, they must shut their
eyes and refuse to see it. They must
take their medicine. They have built
up the power they now decry. Their
s%ycophancy in the beginning is being
repaid as %sycophancy always is repaid,
with scorn. The Fair is a one-man
concern, because the directors allowed
it to be made such a concern. If they
are dissatisfied when too late, no one
is to blame but themselves. II they |
are crushed under the wheels of the
chariot OF the goblet they made, who
shall sympathize with themp II they
shirked duties which the one man was
willing to assume, they are guilty and
deserve their humiliation in the day
of the pride and power of the assump-
ZIONIST. The ex-chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee has done the
public a service by his ~resignatory
protest, but he has pointed an old
moral, too. 1t is that the false gods
men make for themselves become the
oppressors OF their creators, and that
every duty shirked, or perfunctorily
assumed, becomes in time a scourge
to the shirker's pride or s%elf-respect.
There is nothing to do now but accept
the situation of the directors own
making. And for consolation, such as
1t is, the Inundated directors are re-
ferred to back numbers of the mirror.
st. Louis Mirror.
"Some time ago my daughter caught
a severe cold. She complained of
pains in her chest and had a bad
cough. l gave her Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy according to directions
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