Show rin i u in ruin F INFLUENCES of THE ti EXPOSITION g 5 A Brief Br Argument In to 10 Those Tho Who As Ask AsU In Ro Re Rot t to tho the Worlds Fair Is It U Worth J jj Now end ami then one CIne hears the query In relation to the great world fair Calr which Is b I being prepared for or opening at nt SI St Louis I Is It worth while This query quer comes come from those who after utter the thc growing spectacle are arc po 1 poe sassed Bossed pd of ot the that It Is la a 1 great grin pity pit to build so 1 0 mightily anti and nm so bully and then destroy You 1011 ore nrc matins creating here they the say nay saya naya a spectacle which will shine resplendently dazzlingly and then M fale limited period ly IY y for Cor fora n It again Into nothingness Is It worth wort i to expend no sc much money am and such ouch o of art and nd In Industry thing thins which for nil all It Iti II upon P n n a magnificence must l he be torn down urn and carted away BO so soon Those who auk ask this question look merely merel at t tho the material side aide of ot the expo exi onion Billon laboring Ignoring the deeper of ot It The man of keener spiritual vis vision visIon hl ion Jon discerns weighty to aup sup support port the theory that the tho position Is Is Indeed worth he s a e s In ev everY everyone n none one ono of ot Its multitude of features thing which suggests that despite lh the leveling hand of the destroyer that thai needs must follow tallow tho the builder a uni universal versal exposition does not nol die when Its ItJI minarets arc are shaken down und tad Its Urn lem pIes plea broken Into fragments It la Is not an exaggeration to say y that thai millions of persons persona who visit this ibis ex exposition exposition exposition position will carry away with them Im Impressions which will outlast Oil even their then own lives and having wrought ht bene beneficial effects effect upon themselves will b be passed down to 10 their posterity Every l ery Is educative even ven the tho county lair has hall Its Instructive side sitio I II I recall to mind n R certain boy who un until i til his hili tenth year had not been en beyond his hili small native village He lie attended the fair at the tho county seat seal and saw for forthe r forthe r the first time In his life collect collected i ed tor for display Ho lie was amazed There opened up to him a wider view of ot Hf life than he had known For years thereafter there thereafter thereafter after he talked of the wonders of the county fair and when ho became thrice as old and a n man of celebrity In I hit his state stale a noted representative In I Congress a 1 brilliant orator a profound scholar he was wont to speak of or that old county coun fair Calr as 18 the In Influence fluence that had awakened hl his hitherto sluggish being and given him a now new outlook upon life The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Ex soar will 11 be beta to a county fair Calr as a 1 saInt eye lIa lIat tern t m to a 1 fleck Iteck of ot stardust duat If It the tho homely little exhibition of oC farm pro products ducts duell In the tho fenced enclosure at a t the county count seat proves an nn awakening In upon the mind of or tho the country cOlin try boy bo what shall h II we wo say lay of or nn an exposition In which tho the minute detail of all oil In Industries Industries all arts art all nil sciences clenes Is ru u up tip lp Item by Item Ituni Into a tag composite of display wherein uso use and Inti beauty go hand In land hand The rhe worlds fair whose gates Katell will 11 bo be thrown open the tho day of next April In is to be an all exposition of what the tho world has hn done Ilona and Is III doIng do ria doing ing and how It has done ilono d anti and nd Is doing It A gentleman who recently visited the grounds remarked that he ho consider considered od ed 11 a spoilt spent nt at n II great grent exposition as all beneficial as a tour four years course at college He lie spoke from Crom personal exper experience experIence lence being a 0 graduate of ot alo und and 1 having ht ving been Identified with the Pa a American Exposition 1 at nt Buffalo In a n capacity rapacity which enabled him to make a thorough of the tho enterprise In nil its brunches branches There herl ore uro today tOlla In New York In other cities of oC America and In I a II number of men and women gaining x place and fame In hi the fine BlIch sane ass nn M painting and d sculpture who ac acknowledge knowledge tint that the 1110 Columbian exposi exposition Lion tion nt at Chicago gave them their first definite Inspiration In toward the tho life There Thera arc noels and novelists novell ls teachers t and und lecturers who received receiver t from that exposition such lIuch Impressions of oC beauty and such uch deepening of know knowledge ledge HS as enabled them to find their proper lifework work Hundreds Hundred of thousands nude ands of ot young oun men and women who were children n 10 years ar ago mid and who verc ore privileged to spend pend a I number lumber of oC days daye at the Chicago worlds fair now look back with gratitude for tor the per Impressions received there which have served a to broaden their views and ond give them n a moral and spirit spiritual spiritual t ual uplift that endows their lives with witha a n lasting lOlling benefit Beauty Is truth truth U la all 1111 we know on earth Hud and all we wc need to know wrote John Keats Kents pro l eminent singer of ot the psalms of oC life me m nearly a 1 century ago aKO Delightful as a alire asere lire ere the songs of oC the bard hord whose who e soul Mul was n steeped In the tho splendors of ot Greek Idealism the present age de dc denies deilleR tiles nies the accuracy of oC his liU observation In this ago ngo we wa need to know much more mora than beauty benu otherwise e we may tall fall Into lIto an un early decline ThIs In is the this strenuous era It Is Ie the ago aga of achieve went ment the tho day ot of doing things The Tho worlds world fair purposes to be tho the ox ex L of ot tho the present day primarily though by no means neglecting the f glory that was wail Or arid And the tho grandeur that was wan Rome Home At this exposition i I history Is III to be e taught by h object Us les I exhibition of costume arms Implements manufactures precious m documents from the beginnings of ot civilization to this Oil day 11 Tho rho Indus Industries In l tries also lire are to he taught by actual t operation of ot tho mechanisms necessary In III h tho making of things thing and tho the i went and disposition of commodities I That an exposition of DC such allty lIty of ot treatment must have a 11 very rrY ap Influence upon the arts In education unit commerce of tho the thet future Is not to to be disputed with any t reasonableness It Is he reasonable to pre lIre predict I diet dict that cities and towns will derive Immediate and anti distinct bene beno benefits benefits fits from tram this exposition cX In iii the tl Lion of oC Ideas dens for fur Improvement i sanitation landscaping architecture i and educational arrangements suggest suggested I ed Irl by the wonderful army at al St SI Louis LouisIn 1 In a 1 magnificent devoted to that Important theme thome education In is to have Its first slowing showing 1 and hers hero c t will 1111 be presented opportunities for tor forit it teachers teacher to compare the educational E systems and accomplishments of oC every l American state elate and land practically every I foreign land Who can cun deny that u 1 seasons study of oC the science of edu education k cation under advantageous auspices will have ha 0 Its effect for good tood upon t antis of communities tho the world over OCI In III manufactures mining i Lure ture the tha displays of both products amid i processes things made Indo und and things waking will bo be marvelously compre comprehensive I hensh One dials s it difficult ull to with withhold withhold hold the tho prediction that multitudes of at 1 boys and youths who ho visit this exposi exposition expo l Ion tion will absorb nb orb Impressions which will willbe willbe l be lc the primary Influence toward shap shaping ing lag their careers The lad from room the tho of oC Arkansas will watch with curious cUllous Interest t and amid operation of oC ti shoemaking machinery Twenty years hence honce he ho may mil ha one of tile the great Clip cap ti of or commerce In the manufacture j of shoes SHOCK That boy from the prairie prairietown prairietown town of or will be attracted by the raining mining In iu the tho great rent mining l gulch find amid the tho next generation may any i know Imol hint him as all nn till UI Inventor of ot Improved mechanism nl or process fur for converting the tho crude crud ore oro Into time the metals of ot com con commerce merce And ind this thin pallid urchin froth from one Olio i of ot the thi great cities s who through his hili overwhelming curiosity ly to see lIel timings tiling has hM been b cn enabled to visit the exposi exposition lion tion may inny IOn find In to the agricultural exhibits its lis something that will cause him hint to 10 forsake the sordid narrowness of ot this city life and became a R happy and use useful ful tut farmer Thu argument nr t Is III heard that i lion come tuo loo frequently There frh urn aro those thol who willi hold that America should not have hRc attempted another universal II II IC I exposition In tho time same MOIl generation that the ono one nl nt Chicago lint Hut It II should bo be hI remembered d that In the ten tenI yarn Nara that lint have pasted passed since that event eventa I a n new nW of oC children has grown grownup up imp millions who were too young oung ten years cars ago to receive material benefit train from attendance c ot nt an on exposition are ure arenow I Inow now nf nt o an nil Impressionable age and are ure i inOr eager nOr to see BCD and learn The Tho tact fact that the Louisiana Pur Purchase chase exposition is I located locater utmost almost nt at th center of at population of oC the tho United and nt lit n a point hundreds hundred of oC I mlle milts removed from Crom the site Itt of oC nay previous exposition should be consid considered erect ered In estimating time the Influence or of tho the worlds fair Though of course thousands of visitors will attend from fur far distant states stales mind and from Crom foreign lands the great grant majority of those In attendance nl must come from Cram the territory ry r within a II radius of ot a II few tew hundred miles of oC Bt Ht Louis Comparatively few of oC UK to people ever have havo attended any exposition of It Importance and therefore they will not bo sated with such Kuch spec tariff uc fie 1 some persons of ot globetrot globetrotting trot trotting ting tin propensities and possibilities inv pio fe Ie Tess n to he be It IB is the great body bolly of ot tho the common people the average man and woman anti and child will benefit most largely ly by this enterprise o Abia bm ham hum Lincoln said Bald that God Coil must love lovo the common people otherwise e lie IIo would not have ho made HO so 0 nanny many of ot them It ItIs Itis Is IH this vast n multitude that will find In iii Inthe the tho worlds fair Inspiration to wider life end and nobler achievement Treated from Crom a 11 purely commercial viewpoint the tho benefits of oC tho the exposi tion are lire obvious Demand Is le created In u largo large degree by b the knowledge of ot supply who never neer leave loa their native forests will continue conti nUll to be contented with homespun but the tho forester Core who comes comell to the cities anti and finds broadcloth popular will demand nd broadcloth Every l verY visitor no matter whit what his station In life lICe will find and at nt athia thU hia exposition things of or the time existence of which he lie neVAr knew W some of ot these thelle things he lie will want th they y will be adopted In his hie own family or community Thus Thull the de demand demand demend mand mend for the worlds commodities will willbe willbe willbe be appreciably quickened anti one ef et effect feet of oC the exposition will be to assist materially mn In solving the problem of supply and demand In conclusion we may JO go o hack anti and apologize apologise to John I for tor In the final dual analysis the worlds orld fair air Is la going to 10 be a 1 poem a mighty poem m with sweeping and splendid flights the tho ultimate epic of ot human achievement chastened and refined by b the divine ef et effulgence fulgence of ot classic grandeur and 01 ILl ILlIn asIn In It its entirety It will be a thing thin of oC beauty though perishing an nil to Its material form Corm ere a twelvemonth pass lias passes en es we have the poets warrant for tor as u seeing that In Its It Influences for tor up UJ uplifting uplifting lifting and enabling the tho soul BOul nf tit the be beholder beholder beholder holder It 11 will be n a Joy Jo 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