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Show PROGRESS IN THE EXPOSITION. All visitors to the St. Louis Exposition agree that it is the very finest ever held; some assert that it excels in magnificence all the others combined. com-bined. We suspect that is true. Great praise is I given the men who have worked the display up to its present point of excellence, and that is just, but there is a higher thought behind it all. It really but represents the mighty progress"of this country. When the exposition was held in Chicago Chi-cago eleven years ago the awful depression was upon the country. The banks were nearly all closed; the railroads were nearly all in the hands of receivers; the industries of the country were prostrated from shore to shore. The change since has been equal to a transformation and the St. Louis exposition reflects this change. Then sixty millions of people were in despair, now eighty millions are exultant. The change wrought in eleven years is equivalent to the creation of an empire. It is true that the advance in values -during those eleven years Is equal to all the aggregated ag-gregated wealth of the empire of Austria, after a thousand years of accumulation. What limitations limita-tions can be placed upon a land of such resources in the hands of a free people equipped .with all necessary means to carry nut any legitimate work B which the conditions require or suggest? There is, too, progress independent of tho mere material advances that attract men's attention. atten-tion. Science comos in for her full share of the glory. In the handling of electricity men have doubled in knowledge. Wireless telegraphy is a feature not dreamed of eleven years ago. The turbine engine is to the front with its challenge against both the steam engine and electricity for a trial. The knowledge of sanitation and consequent con-sequent security against certain malignant diseases dis-eases has Increased a hundred fold in those eleven years. On every hand there is progress and more and more the nations are turning toward to-ward our country as the most favored under the sun. |
