Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — Not a Money-Making Fair. [ARTICLE]

Not a Money-Making Fair.

Ex-Congressman Ben Butterworth, who kicked so vigorously against tho McKinley bill last year, is now in London. Speaking there of the Chicago World's Fair, of which he is Secretary, he is reported to have said: “Besides a successful show, we intend to have a gathering of nations and to promote commerce. You may think it strange to talk of promoting commerce when we have built a wall across the road with the McKinley bill. Anyhow, we think the Exposition will lead to a better entente. It is not a dollar-making business."

But Butterworth will hardly find any European manufacturers who will go to the trouble and great expense of exhibiting at Chicago except as “a dollar-making business ” Europeans will have no patriotic sentiment such as moves us, and it is certain that the only European products found at the Chicago Fair will be such as appeal to the taste of the rich, who are able to buy costly articles of luxury despite the high-tariff wall “across the road. ” Europe makes a thousand and one articles which the poorer and moderately well-to-do people of this country would like to buy, but it is safe to predict that very few of these will be seen at Chicago.