Show objections NOT WELL FOUNDED ever since chicago was awarded the worlds fair by Cong congress mas now new york has baa entertained a more or less jess spiteful eeling which is manifested variously but bill in no way more visibly than by some of its newspapers A prod pro position has lately been made to have the original copy of the declaration Deol of I 1 in n dependence on OD 4 exhibition at the big show an recently the society of the sons of the american revolution in ila the district of columbia passed a series of resolutions against such a transaction the society bases its opposition on the ground that the dou doc u ment meat is the most precious in all our archives archive that extraordinary care is ia required to preserve it the ink is 1 rading fading away the names of the fathers are becoming almost illegible Ith it hes been found necessary to keep keen the great document out of the sunlight in a hermetically sealed case and the removal would involve risks and perils that should not on any consideration be taken irked J of course it is the fact that it is a precious document that abet makes atone it one of the things desired the new york Rc recorder corder comes to the support of the objectors as follows follow the patriotic washington association is right the declaration should not on any consideration pass out of the custody of the government it to is the very greatest document we have and its loss would he be are irreparable p arable millions of dollars could n not at p purchase rh it what W hat american would exchange bg it f for all 11 the treasures that will be on exhibition at the fair not one onel r let it remain where it Is safe from an all danger of impairment or destruct destruction ioni the fervor thus evinced should be neither ridiculed nor decried for it is i a long way from being improper JQ jn itsel it is the use to which it la Is put pt that to is objectionable there are a good many people in th this in country who would rather see the declaration than any thing else eise that will be shown and theo the proportion la is as great in what most now new yorkers regard as the aured and uncombed west as elsewhere in fact we of this re region giona do not cot expect to have such another chance for seeing the beautiful ul lul the wonderful the sublime the artistic and the bla torio things of our land aggregated again we have as much veneration for the fathers and as much regard for the a hie heritage to us by them as have the knickerbockers or any others it IS ig because of this feeling that we want to see the original indictment of great britain by the colonies and the si at us natures of the heroes who pledged to each other their all on earth just as all they themselves wrote them to say that the document cannot be transported and placed for exhibition in safety safely aud and that it cannot be made perfectly secure during such time la IS a reflect reflection iol upon the progress the attainments the intelligence and the manhood of the age |