Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-14

dent Of that Board, aud lor no, exerting his
official influence and authority agninst the ef.
forts Of come TO hold Fair ai Cincinnati, the
ensuing fall
care not what assumed, or real impor.
tance, any individual may enjoy because of
being President Of the United States Agricul-
iutal Society II does not alssolve him from
treating with becoming respect other gentle
men occupying like official positions Opthe
contrary, his responsibilities are increased,
aud because Of his official position, he should
be the more careful Now, Air, what has the
President Of the United States Agricultural
Society done 10 avert the threatened evil tothe
Interest Of the State organization Of Ohio, by
fhe movement in favor Of an exhibition at
CT lcinnatR Not only has he not interposed
lns influence and authority, SO far a. ! am ed-
vi'ed and believe, but he has expressly, through
the Secretary, encouraged the movement AZ
least, so Il seems, from the tenor Of the letters
received from the Secretary, and read at pub
lie meetings in Cincinnati
No only has the President not interposed
against what you Justly denominate gross
wrong 10 the State Society,"" but he declined 10
take The slightest notice, either personal or
official, Of the Protest of the Ohio State Board
of Agriculture At the earliest moment after
hearing Of this proposed gross crong" the
President of our State Society, in accordance
with the wishes Of the members Of the State
Board, respectfully addressed the President Of
the United States Society, stating the reasons
why that Society ought not 10 hold an cxhibi-
ton at Cincinnati. as the State Fair was loca-
ted at Dayton
To the remonstrance Of the State Board Of
al =. L. ~ rnn.
Of February, not TIE slightest notice has been
giDen. No answer, verbal or written, private
or official has. as vet, been received Is not
such conduct cenfurable2 Not only do they
purpose to do the State Agricultural interest
| gross wrong but, while doing so, they also
intend TO show that they have neither person
al nor official respect for those who have been
appointed to watch over and promote that in
terest
But this blameless President think, is not
now acting in accordance with the very Judi
ciOus ideas expressed by lim in his insugursI
address, upon assuming the duties Of President
Of that Society, In that address, he said that
"the cooperation Of the rarious State Socie-
hes and Boards Of agriculture is also earn
eStly to be desired" And how is that coop
Grafton to be obtained2 Is it by supercilious
demeanor to the several State BoardsH Is it
by virtually ignoring their existence, paying
no attention TO their protests, and by adopting
measures and establishing Fairs, irrespective
Of the wishes of these Boards, and caring moth
ing about their snccessS Surely not
| But enough, upon this aspect of the case
If the present officers persist in their effort to
hold a Fair at Cincinnati they will satisfy the
world that they care nothing about the coop
Grafton of State Agricultural organizations
,-f,r h. ..I
men, that they utterly disregard their wishes,
that they desire to have no cooperation with
them; hut, on the contrary, they purpose to
interfere with their State Exhibitions, when
ever and wherever their Golfers can he filed
in such abundance as TO justify the expenditure
Of 81 400 for liquors, and their pride and yani-
ty may have an opportunity for greater dis
/ play
| had hoped, on reading the inaugu-
raj of the present President of the Uni
ted States Agricultural Society, that new era
in the United States Society would be intro
duced | well remembered how grossly the
interests and rights of the Illinois State Board
of Agriculture had been outraged by this same
Society. Notwithstanding Illinois had located
her Fair for 1859 at Freeport, the United
States Society located, the same fall in Chica-
go. The officers of the Illinois Agricultural
Society we're aware that the National Fair at
Chicago would seriously interfere with them,
and they demonstrated with this mighty, over
shadowing United States Society. Not only
were there remonstrances uRheeded, but they
were unanswered Ths.same kind of "co-ope-
ration prevailed in Illinois, as is now invited
and courted in Ohio, in 1860
What is the result of the contest between
these Societies2 A perfect alienation of feel
ing on the part of the Agriculturalists of Illi-
nois, from the United States Society There
is no cooperation" and there can be none
until the United States Society is re-organized,
and truly shows her regard for the Agricultur-
al interest, by efforts to foster, rather than to
break dozen State Exhibitions
The movement in favor of Cincinnati has
already produced like feeling in Ohio 1t
meets with almost universal condemnation,
from all those who regard justice, right and
fair dealing. The effort to hold Fair this
fall has strongly aroused an indignant feeling
against those who are striving to perpetrate
an outrage upon the rights of our own State
organization Our people will, / trust, not
tamely submit to have their own officers dis
courteousy treated and their own institutions
utterly contemned The United States Socie-
ty, and their guarantors will find that, in this
contest, there are blows to receive as well as
blows to give" and that, if they desire to OBJ
tain the cooperation of State Boards of Ag-
riculture," that they had better consult their
interests, and treat with seeming propriety, at
least, those who may be appointed to preside
over them-B C.