The sun., 1903-04-30
toThs Rrlnoei Of Wales and America.

fo1no E1Vnooa OF wales and America.
3 Tho q. Louis Exposition is to be opened
to-dsy corumonially with an address
4 by President ROOSEVELT, but the show
properis not to be until next year. Mean
While, OF special interest to us Is the at
7tsntion it n attracting on the other side
Of TIE OCEAN. e. For instance, King Ed
WARD and ths4British Government have
ss1ecesd IL Prince Of WALES a. chair
man Of the Royal Commission to pro-
.yiAs for tie adequate representation
Of thS Unitsd Kingdom at the great
, sair. Al It b reported. also, that the
Prince iss5toy visit this country ne1t
ysar-t atssnd the exhibition personally.
THIS may b only an assumption or an
!. tnferencs, butwe hope 1t will be justified
in thsr faoG.J ~
ut = nav forty-three years since the
present King Of England made his visit
10 this oountEy when he was Prince Of
aWAL1s. During the period since 1880
tbs transformation Of this republic,
socially. politioally, financially and in
dugtrially, haG been complete. JAMES
BUuaANAN was then President, and the
Democratic party was still dominant,
though afnady Republioanism was dem
onstrattns ths power which gave it there-
aftr for 30 long a period the Federal
CONTROL. In the Senate there were IS
Demoorats 10 70 Republicans, but In the
d. HCnss tho Republicans were liz to 10l
Dsmorsfs-@,T The Know-Nothing agita-
/, tssa, which several years before had been
c tutsn0 throughout the Union, was dying
Aouk yet 10 this Thirty-sixth Congress
thDgU rWUres25' Native Americans In
~ 0snaAe aAd a. many as 70 In the
HouD. H. b noteworthy that these
ssAmsgicam,,Nere all from the Southern
yotsAs6 TAA,tw Senators were from
Ksutucky md Maryland, respectively.
Th; - Representatives were: from
! Tsanasss. B. from Kentucky. 4 from
IiGusth oCGfuin, . from Maryland, Z
: from 0sorgia and each from Virginia
and IDui1iaaAs
,ci M populstion Of the Union was only
sa,ass, ,7eA y'Nsw York was then . town
} sf ouly sbout 900 900 inhabitants. Rela-
rttxslv b ~ present, tho conditions IN
.shh sounfryreenerally were primitive.
o. IoMA Wh1se the Louisiana Purchase
Rxpoeif3ca b - b held, now city with
q pspula1isp approaching 100000. had
'rtssn oaly aheut 100000 inhabitants. or
Il v~sA tovnof lees than the present size
u pf1KnnsasSCty or Rochester. Slavery
Rwse n s1shsaos, though the rumblinga
= pssoedmSsths storm Of the civil wal
sh6dShvoay begun 10 b heard loudly.
i.rsAAnnpmssmsnt having been nade that
tans Prince ~ WALES, now EDWARD
styfIs, 1a about 70 visit Canada, Presi-
y l3sAt B0cnA,sAN wrote TO Queen vIo-
roRiA thatahD would b cordially ~
ipja$eds - Washington II b should sx.
tod hhs~iniA 70 the United States, and
g.ths QzBsn rspaisd that the Prince would
l,setnnc chons .Ahrough this country. BE
lsndsA stb6k Johns, newfoundland,
a Jxky IA isoAI and, entering our terri
,stoyy Hepa. %, at Detroit, was welcomed
with great snshusiasm. Chicago. now q
sotown toi hand on to two million inhabi-
: tants, had thsa q population Of les than
.1ffo,0e, bus ssDres OF thousands Of people
s0ne Sut - greet the Prince whom be
arTix0d tthsrs. On the I'd OF October
sdiss visited Washington and was received
e1a susst stahe White House by Presi-
dent BUCHANAN. From there he made
bsssd witt to Richmond, and, on Oct.
-, wut TO Philadelphia, and two days
'llater came TO- New York. where he was
.Srspatved smoyreat state for time which
ewas primitive ~ measured by the present
andamaserial development OF the
- Ne Dsoadway through which he passed
) 'vas an humble street, comparatively, and
ball givn to him at the Academy Of