The last paragraph is the best; ”Come spend a day enjoying yourselves, the fair beckoned; lay down your placards and your pistols, and take up your rightful pl

The last paragraph is the best; ”Come spend a day enjoying yourselves, the fair beckoned; lay down your placards and your pistols, and take up your rightful place in the front rank of civilization and the “march of progress.” The fair exhibits were designed to domesticate the restive immigrant workers of St. Louis by turning them into white people.“