Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-05-25

try, at least, Is to take a new depart
ure. and we hope the effect will be felt
also. in some measure. by every CIV
iliZed nation.
Here will be spread out before us the
manufactures of Great Britain, the
sourc of all her power. From France
VIII come articles of taste and utility,
exquisite in design and perfect in exc
cution. From Russia, iron and leather
no nation has yet learned to produce.
FROM Berlin n Munich. artistic pro
auctions in iron nj bronze. From
switzerland, her u%nequaled wood cary
ing n delicate watch work. From
Bohemia shall come the perfection Of
glass blowing, and musical instru-
nents from the Black Forest.
From the people of poor old Spain,
to whose daring and public spirit near
ly four centuries back we owe the pos
sibilities of this hour, shall come the
evidence OF aforetime greatness, now
unhapplly faded away for the want Of
education amongst the mass of her
people. From Nineveh and Pompeii
the evidences of a buried past. The
progress of the applied arts will be
shown from all Europe. From China,
her curious workmanship. the result
of accumulated ingenuity reaching
back beyond the time when history be-
gan. Matchless woodwork from Japan,
and from far India her treasures rare
ana wonderful. Turkey and Persia
shall bring their gorgeous fabrics 10
diversity and stimulate our taste. Ti.
queen OF the east, passing the Suez
canal, shall cross the great deep AMI
bow her turbaned head to this young
giant OF the west, and he shall point
her people to the source of his vast
powers--the education of all her
people.
One of our noted orators laid before
us the other night cnph oyilarno az,
he could gather of the lost arts of the
ancients, and he demands to know
what We nave to compensate us for the
loss. | claim that we have produced
some things, even in this new country.
worthy of that orators notice. In
stead OF tearing open the bosom of
mother earth with the root of a tree,
that he may feed upon the bounties of
nature, as the ancients did, the green
covering rolls away with the perfec-
tlon and grace of art itself from the
polished moulding board of the Pitts
pursh steel plow. Machinery casts
abroad the seed and a reaping machine
gathers the harvest. Whitney's cotton
gin prepares the fiber; Lyalls positive
motion boom takes the place of the
Old wheel, and a sewing machine fits
the fabric for the use Of man. What
had the %ancients. l demand to know,
that could compensate them for the
want OF these American Inventions? |
do not speak of the American tele-
graph or steam power, that we have
done more than all other nations put
together in reaching it's possibilities.
The Magi of the east never dreamed,
in the widest frenzy of their beautiful
ilnaginations, of the wonders of these!
Next YEAR it will become the duty
of the general government to make the
international exhibition known to 9TH
er countries, to the end that all civil
lied people may meet with us in 1876
in friendly competition in the progress
OF the arts OF peace. BE it our duty
now to arouse our own people TO 4
sense of its great value. | know that
We go out with oGr Hearts full-let our
minds be determined n our hands
ready for the labor.