It is perhaps rather Into in the day to discuss the value of international exhibitions, They have been with ux for nearly holla century and have become one of hiv is difficult to shake oft that the 1900 Exhibition is to tot the series, but this Tam me jelined to doubt. Toit tue thut the aver-faye Parisian regards these big fire ax a ntiisanee, and the pro though he jis ready enough to go and join in the tio, grumbles at the general tendency to spend money in Baris instead of in the country but one the less there la an underly' satisfaction in the thought that France [be the centre of attraction fur at least six mouths of the year. Many ent wes eyn tribute to the maintennnee of the institu.
The advanced political element favours it because it menus plenty of employment the working classes; and the Paris hotel restaurant proprietors are on the sine for obvious reasons. The Government of the day views it excellent scheme for keeping the Parisians out of mischief, }It may be, however, that even there fluences will not suffice to keep the institu. ition alive if this yenr's exhibition should prove " gi cial failure. Lhe well known ce! t, de Molinuri, thin it will verv_probably cent the taxpayers Fxomething like two millions sterling—the risks of the enterprise being shared by the Suite and the city of Paris—while the money brought into the country from abroad will go into the pockets of a "limited number of tradesmen, hotel and cole-keepers, Ariuk-sellers, and' proprietors of unrecom=
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