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THE WORLD’S FAIRS 
mast be treated as international property, 
and not from the standpoint of church 
steeple politics. Congresses, who meet to 
consider the nature of Railway, Post and 
Telegraph administrations, soon discover, 
that it needs nothing but common agree- 
ment, to establish that universal good 
Order of working, which satisfies all in- 
terests. 
In the subject which occupies our atten 
tion, we have an institution, which of all 
others belongs to this common domain. 
VVhile this is admitted in theory, there is 
in practice, as much sharp play allowed 
rival national interests, as we can find in 
some petty trade competition, and mutual 
good will is at a premium. 
Londoners would like to convince the 
world, that London is the only proper 
place für an international exhibition, as 
they consider their city the heart, as it 
were, of the commercial body of the 
world. Parisians oppose their own pre- 
tension, that Paris is the seat of its brain, 
and consequently has as good a right to 
come forward as London. Americans, 
Austrians, Germans, Italians and other 
nations are considered both by Londoners 
and Parisians in the light of tributaries 
only, who owe allegiance.