Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The World's Fair Abroad.’ The Fair will be worthy of the whole American people,—Gibraltar Chronicle. It is likely to prove the greatest show on earth.—Weymouth (Eng.) Southern Times. Our industries must be splendidly represented at the great Exposition. —Paris, France, La Liberte. Our American cousins are nowhere unless they do things on a magnificent scale.—Manawatu, India, Herald The great Exposition is one of the greatest events of the world’s history.— Guatemala El Correo de la Tarde. For the Exposition in Chicago, the officials are agitating in truly American style.—Riga, Russia, Duna Zeitung. European visitors will find the Exposition. like the city itself, destined to be a marvel.—Paris (France) Le Figaro. Chicago has abundance of accommodation for all the visitors to the World’s Fair.—Newcastle (England) Chronicle. W To sukh as s?ek for information, the United States Consul will gladly forward their names.—Melbourne (Australia) Argus. There are signs on every side that by 1893- "Chicago will be we<J. prepared for the enormous influx of visitors. —London Daily News. There is every prospect that the World’s Exposition In Chicago will be the biggest ever held.—Reval, Russia, Revalsche Zeitung. A most complete participation qf German industry in the (. hicago Exposition is imperative.— Wurzburg (Germany) Neue Wurzburger Zeitung. The World’s Columbia! Exposition promises to be the greatest and most important of all such events —Barcellos (Portugal) Folha da Manha. The World’s , Columbian Exposition will offer to the foreign visitor a collection of marvels without precedent.— Constantinople Levant Heraldl The participation of America, England, France and Germany practically guarantees tho success of the Exposition.—Stockholm (Sweden) Aftonbladet. The preparations for a proper representation of Gerjnany at the World’s Exposition cannot tie tiegun too early.— Berlin (Germany) Nord Deutsche Al’gemeino Zeitung. No other city in the republic possesses such possibilities of carrying out to a successful end so enormous an enterprise as Chicago —Havana (Cuba) Bolotin Comercial. The Exhibition will provide a mart wherein he who has anythng destined for the use of man can show it to the world at once.—Georgetown (Demerara, British Guiana) Daily Chronicle. The elaborate ureparations which are being made for the World’s Fair, to be held av Chicago in 1893, give promise of that Exposition being equal to any which the world has yet seen —Dundee (Scotland) Courier. Mhi 1c the government remains faithful to its declared intention of not officially paricipating in any world’s exposition, yet it announces its intention, so far as may be possible, of assisting exhibitors.—Milan, Italy, Corr.'ere de la Serra. The World’s Columbian Exposition will be a cosmopolitan university in which each nation will be a willing pupil, and in which every article exhibited will be an object lesson for the. benefit of all mankind.—La Estrella de Panama.

Balmaceda's Downfall. The Chilian war is over. Now for a new administration and a new war.— Minneapolis Tribune. In the civil war, as in the conflicts with her neighbors, the Chilian soldier has shown himself the best fighter In South America. —Pittsburg CommercialGazette. This is, in a sense, a triumph of the people over the dictatorial powers assumed by the President. How far It is a triumph of the peop e yet remains to be seen.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Chili is redeemed, and by the prowess of her own people, and she is at once to assume her rightful place as the most promising of all the South or even Span-ish-American republics —Memphis Commercial. r l he fall of Balmaseda ruts an end to the Chilian insurre tion, but this onlygives the Chilians a chance to show that they have outgrown Government by pro* nunciamento tempered by assassination. —[St. Louis Post Dispatch. If the C ongressional party now takes a sensible course and gives the country a liberal and progressive government the verdict of the future historian will rank them with the popular benefactors of the world. —[Milwaukee Journal The hope of the civilized word is that peace will now come soon io a country whose people are too brave to slaughter each other, and whose position among the nations has been to> praiseworthy to be sacrificed by civil feud.—Utica. Herald. The time has come to recognize the congressional party. Those who of late were rebels are now in control. The recognition by France of AmirflSan independence after the battle of Saratoga, furnishes a fairly gooL precedent.— Buffalo News. * Balmaceda was a brute, a dictator, a> desperate trickster, and ruled like a despot He played a desperate game, but failed to take the trick. Ihe common, people of Chili are again in power. All lovers of good government will rejoice at Balmaceda’s overthrow. —[Bloomington Leader. The defeat of Balmaceda is a victory for popular rights and a defeat for oneman power. The victors will no doubt organize the government again on the principles for which tfcey toox up arms, and it will not be long b fore tranquility and prosperity will settle upon the people—Milwaukee News. From the beginning the sympathy of the world has been with the Congressional party or revolutionista They have reprerented constitutional government, while President Balmaceda haa stood for depotism and one-man power in its most extreme and offensive form. The overthrow of that autocrat will make the role of tyrant and dictator a little less attractive to ambitious men in. the South American republics:—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Proud of His Whiskers. Anent those whiskers of Emperor William’s, rumor says they are red.— Quincy Herald. 'Wilhelm’s court barber is doubtless the most unhappy official in Europe. It is easier to obey “Ra : se me an army* than “Grow me a beard. ”—Nfew York World. Emperor William has forbid’ei anybody to make a picture of aim without a beard. A few more absurd decrees like this and the Frenchman’s stdr'y'ol his erratic exploits may find credence. —New Orleans Delta.