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THE  WORLD’S  PÄIRS

the  necessary  preparations,  but  also  takes
up  more  of  his  personal  time  and  attention, ­
  than  he  can  well  afford.  It  is  therefore
  not  surprising,  that  leading  manufacturers,
  who  have  an  assnred  custom,
often  refuse  to  participate  in  exhibitions.
It  would  be  easy  for  any  person  acqnainted
witb  the  manufacturing  interest  in  different ­
  countries,  to  eite  examples  from  the
late  exhibitions  which  show,  that  many
leading  branches  of  trade  were  represented
exclusively  by  beginners,  who  have  yet
their  reputation  to  establish,  but  not  by
houses  of  note.
Such  was  chiefly  the  cause  of  the  unsatisfactory
  appearance  of  the  German  department
  at  Philadelphia,  but  if  a  severe
criticism  of  it  was  therefore  justified.  yet,
the  hasty  deduction,  that  all  German
manufactures  were  inferior,  was  wholly
unfounded.
We  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  fault
lies  in  such  cases  much  less  on  the  side  of
the  manufacturers,  than  in  the  nature  of
the  administrations  connected  with  the
exhibition,  The  problem  here  is,  how  to
unite  commercial  simplicity  and  expedition
  with  bureaucratical  conscientiousness
  ?  It  cannot  be  solved  by  abandoning
  the  direction  to  merchants,  who  are  in
active  business,  and  who  have  con-