The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1904-12-15

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about Idaho
| Since May !, ls0i, the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, the greatest OF
all Worlds Fairs, has been open In
st. Louis, Mo-, but today, December
/, 1904, 1t closes TO the paplic.
Properly it should have been held
a year earlier, as originally intended,
but the buildings could not be eom-
pleted in time.
! 1t was celebration of the one,
hundredth anniversary OF the most
important event of President Thomas
Jefferson administration, the pur-
chase in 1903 from France by the
United States OF the territory, then
} lately ceded by Spain to France, ex-
tending from the Mississippi river
westward to the Rocky Mountains.
! Robert Livingston and James Mon
roe were the agents for the United
States
The transaction was known as the
) Louisiana Purchase, the price paid
I was els, ,0OO, 900, one-foarth OF which,
! by mutual consent Of the two govern
! ments, was withheld by Congress and
paid to United States citizens foI
seizure and copliscation OF American
merchant vessels by French men-of'
war In the war between England ano
Z France.
After short peace, these twt
! countries were again on the verge o.
Z war. Our government, fearing thai
! England might wrest from Francs
Z her American possessions, was glat
Z to buy, and Napoleon Bonaparte
! who the year before had been pro
Z claimed Consul OF France for life
Z was glad to sell because he wa
! friendly TO the United States am
! hated England. Upon signing th
Z treaty he remarked, This accession
! OF territory strengthens forever TN
Z power OF the United States and
= have given England maritime risa
that will humble her pride" Ne.e
- was prophecy more nearly exactly fu
filled.
Had Napoleon been less shrewd an
refused TO make the deal, Englan
might have acquired the territor
from France by conquest and the
= the termination OF the war OF Isl
might have been in favor OF Il
British and we today subjects
'o' King Edward. And yet In such ca'
- the situation might not be so bat
for the late Queen Victoria and h'
son and successor, King Edwar'
have endeavored to make colonial a
continents upon merit and perhaI
the appointment OF Governor &c
ha. eral OF the United States OF Amer
ca might have been given TO u
Right Honorable Sir William Je
pjngs Bryan under whose rule o
government would certainly be mo
of a republic and less OF 5espot
monarchy than 1t is now.
no. Had the accident OF birth ma
. Bryan an Englishman, he undoubte
Iy would have been Prime Minist'
succeeding that other great commo
er, the late Gladstone.
But in our so-called free republ
Commercial Greed holds tyranI
sway and Bryan's followers must
the present content themselves vi
the well-nigh universal encomi'
that he Is "too sincere, too consi
ent. and too great TO be allowed
be president OF the United States.
aho. This seeming depression brings
. to the subject Of New ZealaI
whose display l ran across In the
riculturai building OF the Louisi;
Purchase Exposition. Though
tendency of England, 10 its i
governmental affairs, IL Is more ne
.iy pure socialism Than any OF
country. Climatic and political
dltlons have combined TO make
Justly known as the elysium not Q
of the South Pacific but OF the wo
Col Geo. W. Bell, seven years Uni
ashs. States Consul at Sydney. Austria
. visited New Zealand In 1903, a
lecturer and has this year publis
A book entitled "Mr. oseha's |
Discoyery. On the title page
r. author remarks, "Tbe eonspic'
happiness and prosperity OF q pc
are the best evidences OF bei
rule.
,nles He dedicates the book thus;
40 at the People Of New Zealand the 4
from advanced community among m'
The Think OF this admission being pei
ct I'm by a politician from nation
4 are has lust tried to prove its claim
been be the greatest on earth 10y eisi
this Worlds Fair surprising all othe
mavnitude and maeniicence.
,rmy, wealth, prosperity and happ
bic 10 the American people havc--conges
The wealth, prosperity and happi
and people Of New Zealand have
!. L. tributed. The strongest le
taught by the Louisiana Pur'
Exposition was this.
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