Year: 1873

degener0te tendencleS OF the puDlc press, pecauSe
the public press is in every respect precisely what
the people make it; and If the American Centennial
Exhibition should in the least degree prove fall
ure 1t would be equally ridiculous to throw the
blame upon the Commissioners. They are simply
the representatives OF the public, and it will be
directly In accordance with public acciamaton that
they shall act. 1t shall not be the special act OF
Congress regarding this Exposition, nor the care
full and elaborate proclamation OF the President
that shall render it really national for its nation
alty win consist in the extent to whlch each
State takes the matter to heart 1t Will be the en-
thusiasm shown by every city and hamlet oil the
State that shah prescribe to the State CON-
missioner the particular manner in Which
he shall conduct himself. II the State is indi1er-
ent it's Commissioner Will be Indifferent also; but
f the State appreciates the momentous issues
hanging over this grand event-if it's cities, towns
and villages penetrate to the spirit OF tins stupen-
dous scheme and detect beneath its superficial
glory the means Of internal development and
more complete financial aggrandizement-the Com
missioner must catch the glow of popular enthu-
siasm until his brain and heart centred in its
ultimate success.


COMMISSIONERS AwAKEl


The Commissioners OF the Centennial Exhibition
must be aroused. They are wasting time. The de-
cisions which ought TO be rendered to-day are in
excusably deferred until tomorrow The commit
tee upon architecture, who should have held their
session weeks ago. do not meet until this article
shall reach their eyes, and the decision which
should lave been already rendered will not be an
nOuhced for days yet to come. The fact that every
international exhibition ever held upon the lace OF
the earth has been behindhand and never ready
Rt the opening day does not urge their actions IN
the least. The fact that our products upon the
,,Oct Dar I,yhf cfnr in
freight trains miles away from the building, and
that they were far nearer Havre than they were to
Paris they do not seem to comprehend, nor do
they appear to consider for moment the sad re-
suits already returned from Vienna. What shall
urge the Commissioners to a complete and perfect
fulnlment OF their duty Shall 1t be the natural
emotions Of their own hearts Shall
IL ne the immense quartO reports OF other
exhibitions Shall it be stirring editorials
ln'Our leading journals, or the earnest correspond
ence OF the few enthusiastic gentlemen who first
proposed this thing? Nay, none OF these,
nor all Of them comDlned, will be sufficient TO
arouse that passionate determination in every
Commissioners heart which Will cause all of them
to act together in brothcrly and sympathetic har-
mony, and which is the only agency that can bring
our Centennial to a grand and glorious culmna-
tion. 1t must be the people. II must be popular
opinion, and this opinion must shape itself IN the
form OF popular decree.


LOOK AT NEW HAMPSHIRE


This very day she sends an Official document,
Btating that she has this matter very deeply at
heart and that her Legislature and her people, one
and all, shall leave no means untricd, no stone IN
tHrned do their share in rendering this event one
which shall edound TO the eternal glory OF Union
In which she is O star. Look at Pennsylvania
Already three millions of her dollars have been
changed TOR stock, and daily hundreds more are now
ing into the Centennial Board OF Finance, while some
Of the most distant Territories, localities so re-
mote that they are not even thought OF in the
heartness with which they enter INTO this scheme
and the liberalIty shown in their purchase OF the
shares, put many OF our Older states to shame.
regret to say that many OF our distant Territories
In relation to the original states which formed
our Union, stand In precisely the same posi-
slon as little child who rightly cnides ms nls
his path to right ana duty. Is there any reason
all why any state OF our Union should not follow
sthe course pursued by noble New hampshire, by
sending hearty assurance to the Centennial Board,
and the example OF Pennsylvania and the
the 'tes stoesa There s is oH.' none. Every single
journal OF the american american, press should deem ssI n
II special mission TO announce aii that
Board, and should carefully chronicle 4 all
that may be done to encourage TINS Board In each
OF their respective localities In future There must
be no delay-America must set the world an ex-
ample and at the opening day OF this exhibition
no goods must be unpacKcd, no products must re-
main IN freight trains upon our railways but every
single thing must be carefully catalogued and oc-
cupy precisely the same position and exactly tue
finds its close. This has never been done In the
worlds entire history. All international exhi-
bitiOns, while in measure a success Oh trlumphs,
have Deen, at the same time succession OF disap-


UPON THE OPENING DAY


OF each some particular nationality has felt itself
chagrined at imperfect and inadequate representa-
tiOn. repeat II, TINS must not be so with ours.
There can be no excuse II such Is tne case. Our
people must not suffer an issue so Illuminating as
this. With the ample time before us any such
result must stand forever as national disgrace
and shame. Our Commissioners must be aroused.
They are excellent men who compose our Execu-
tive Board, but they must not consider
this event SO far remote as they DO. sl, Inelr
delay in deciding upon plan Tor build,
the American people that they VIII also delay in
regard to other things. What snail be done in re-
spect to the Eastern natons-Chna, Japan, Persia
and all the islands Of the Pacific? Why Is not an
able commissioner already there negotiating with
oriental Powers for their hearty cooperation and
support Why Is not some shrewd and honest
dipl0mat even now in their Courts, where, in their
native dialect ne can set forth the practical bene
fits which Will result to them from their ofIicial
compliance with his requests and thus turn a
a tendency to ioat elsewnere9 san Francesca rs
nearer them than any city OF France,
Dur Executive Committee not already sent an
agent among the Isles OF the Pacific to kindle their
enthusiasm, increase our commerce, extend our
international relations and expand our national
treasury speaking OF the Eastern nations can
not refrain from producing q few facts OF which
the people are generally ignorant, because the sue
cess attendant upon the American people in their
efforts to


EXTEND COMMERCE INTO EASTERN ASIA


and the Pacific renders 1t necessary to bring into
prominent light certain points which have not vet
been touched upon. Among the islands OF the In
dian Archipelago the government oi Holland Is OF
course dominant, but the most casual observer
cannot lai TO notice that the Dutch have done but
very little to raise those islands up yet with the
exception of lew localities winch belong TO Eng
land, Holland has control OF All which havc thus
far been approached by any European govern