Show THE WORLDS FAIR the democrats in congress led by that prince of cheese holman of indiana have done their level best to cripple the worlds columbian exposition after a long struggle over the appropriation of asked for by the directors the sum of was grudgingly appropriated but not a vo vote to was thereby made for the unpatriotic democratic party in illinois not content with whittling down a necessary appropriation in aid of an exhibition hibi tion involving the tile national lionor and good name of the 0 united states all the tile political demagogues in congress got their heads leads together and committed a great crime against the majority of the people of the united states and especially of the tile workingmen men and women of chicago and its vicinity by declaring that the gatea gates of the fair should ba b closed on sunday tho the people of chicago displayed wonderful enterprise and liberality when congress voted to hold the worlds fair in that city and there is little doubt that if congress had kept out of the matter after deciding upon the location had created no national theorized zed no invitation of foreign nations through the president done nothing to signify to the world the national and international character of the exposition I 1 i chicago alone would have made a success of it while the congress was wrangling over the appropriation bill and the amendments one of the directors expressed the opinion that they ought to begin to think of financing the fair without aid from the government to close the gates on sunday lie said would mean a loss of at least for everyone every one of the tho twenty six sundays dur during ing winch which the exposition will be in existence add to this the tha thalous loss from decre decreased ased attendance on saturday and monday which would surely follow sun day closing add also the loss of revenue from the sale of light wines and malt beverages and the total would more than exceed the asked from congress it was a question with him whether whet lier tile directors direct ora could afford to take the loan on such conditions the solid south was pretty solid against making the loan for tile teason reason that the fair is an enterprise designed to promote and develop american industry still further and the democracy says th the e new york press holds that so long as our british cousins are willing to sell us things the development of american industry is unconstitutional any one who thinks that the fair will gain in increased support from the religious sentiment of the people anything like as much as it will lose in sunday gate receipts is away off in his calculations but it may possibly be a satisfaction to the said isaid religious sentiment to know that what the Wor worlds lils fair loses tile whisky sellers and dive keepers of will gain in some part at least the class of people who will bo be satisfied with the sunday closing of the gates of the fair are the bigots of the kind who refuse to take a sunday newspaper ogden lias has one of them a loudmouthed loud mouthed preacher who when a certain newspaper began the publication of a sunday edition ordered his subscription discontinued it was not liia his subscription to cital STANDARD either but to the salt lake tribune ile is glad that tile gates of tho the fair are to be closed on liia his principal business day |