Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — A Domestic World's Fair. [ARTICLE]

A Domestic World's Fair.

It seems to be growing more and more certain that the Chicago World’s Fair will be a United States Fair Instead of a World’s Fair. It was reported some time since by the London correspondent of the New York Times that “the McKinley bill had already made it certain that Europe would take no interest in the Chicago exhibition and would be practically unrepresented there. ” ' Now the New York Tribune, the leading high-tariff organ of this country, prints a dispatch from Rome to the following effect: “The committee appointed to arrange for a proper representation of Italian art aud industry at the international exhibition in Chicago in 1893 has dissolved, having decided that any further efforts to accomplish the work for which i,t was formed would be useless. It is stated the committee found that in view of tho new United States tariff law few manufacturers or others were willing to send exhibits to Chicago. ” This is only natural. Protection puts up barriers in the way of trade between .nations, and the McKinley bill erects the highest barrier of this kind that tho World has ever seen, except In the case of China before that country opened its , ports to the world and modern civilization. , Merchants and manufacturers do not exhibit their goods at fairs merely to in-' struct and amuse the people. It is a simple business transaction; they want . their wares to be seen by those who may becotae buyers. In other words, a World’s Fair is meant to extend foreign trade —just the opposite purpose to that had in view by McKinley and his followers in passing their “domestic bill.” Accordingly we are to have a “domestic” fair, which does not mean that it cannot be a great and interesting cxhibltoin, only it will not be a World’s Fair