Show TO CLOSE OR NOT TO CLOSE perhaps it would have been as aa well if s the arrangement between the united states aud and we the state of illinois bad beeb more explicit and a little better batter understood all around the spectacle which is ho now presented to the be people of the world of the two being at loggerheads logger heads over a matter ametter which to 10 many seems to admit ait of no conerl versy and to others a appears I 1 pears tw trifling tu to justify a squabble af of any kind is deci decidedly deily humiliating 40 the p patriotic mind and not in the jast t edl aj ing to anybody the b qi tion at issue is whether the or the elate is paramount in u its control of the Worl worlds dis exposition the former has decreed that the jatis atea and andall all places es within the gates atrall ball be closed on sunday while the ii latter holding i the home control to be the direct and therefore superior oue one insists on the sabbath day being only an u imaginary designation of time and like 11 he all other days to be considered but as a convenient aid to checking up business thy the elate authorities have the therefore appealed from the older aider of the circuit court blosl ig the fair the act ot of congress bringing the show into existence and furnishing turnis bing the wherewith to set it in motion ought it seems to us up to btttle the matter the government became thereby the author and custodian 01 01 the enterprise not of course to tue tae of the local authorities but bui jointly waw them anti and entitled to prevail in all disputed matters at least tint one of the directors who favored sun bun tay day opening was shrewd enough to see anin polut ft d admit Us he torce force for he proposed tu to rotund refund to 10 the gover government nent ilie money bouey it had bad adva neeka to start the itie niec prise in order that the baale might properly assume complete control and open and close whenever wn enever il ii saw fit it would seem that sume some suen course was w a prerequisite to oust jug the federal authority autuori ty and nt it i is lot certain that even then the end sought could be accomplished X mi y things plausible and seemingly proper have been urged in behalf ot of the sunday tut but it is plain to be seen that the other side bide nave have mad out a very strong case laying aside the quellion qu eulion mat a peas a most strongly goibe to the christian mind in this christian land luat lual bouls upun upon all loime ot of systematic diversion on the ibe 0 uraih day ao a a to some t aud viewing the whole matter ua question of law pu I 1 v ano ann simple it lal il bears the appearance of a oue ou ca e 0 t f it r the clusen ol users th government fAd control is co natal with the enterprise ilot itself if and the desire of certain stockholders hul lers in the corporation as against that of the controlling power can amount it would seem beem to no DO more than ineffectual opposition unless they can either buy it out or of buy y it off neither plan seeming altogether practicable luat just now it is urged and do not without reason that to shut oft off labor by letting jetting the machinery jest eat and permit the people to paw pass through and view the works and grounds cannot be essentially harmful at any tire time and it may be that some such compromise plan will be adopted certainly the lb gates were open yesterday and whether they will be hereafter or not we expect to know some time this week |