The Midway’s Moral Influence
By Editor
One of the features of the great Chicago Exposition was the "Midway," which was a hodge-podge of everything to a limited extent instructive, but morally indifferent and bad, especially suggestively bad and indecent. A similar street or way under a different name has been a prominent feature in every great exposition since, and the San Francisco papers are asking for suggestions for a name. Forty, perhaps, have been presented, some of which are very significant of the character and influence of what such a feature has been in the past, among which we note, the World, the Short Cut, the Slope, the Ruse, the Big Ditch, the Whirlpool, the Sunset Glide, the Market. It will to many be all these in a decided sense. It will be the morals which will go down the slope into whirlpool and ditch. To many it will be a "short cut" to perdition. But the people demand it, and it will doubtless be made more extravagant than ever, whatever the name.