Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-08-11
The Approaching State Fair.

Aftel an interval of more than three years, DID,
ring which time-there seemed to be insurer il
difficulties in the way of success, the authorized
sentatives of the Wscon sin StateAgrcultura
Society have again resolved upon holding general
Exhibition.
On some accounts the times seem unpropitious
even now, and there will be those who will doubt
the wisdom OF our decision. Others who more fully
appreciate the necessities of the times and the
practical value to the national prosperity of the
country OF industrial exhibitions, whether county,
state o. national, and who, with US, have regret
TED that there should have seemed to be necessI-
" Tor postp at ALL will rejoice at this new
endeayor. There never time in the history
Of the country when it necessary as now to
employ every means calculated to advance its ag
rculturaI and mechanical interests. With i'm
mcnse armies in the field to be fed, clothed and
paid by greatly diminished working population at
home with a national debt of some two thousand
millions to be cancelled, and with certainty Of
a still further increase of the fighting at the ex
pense of the working force and further in crease
OF the national debt; with all these facts and prob
abilities before u, who does not that Indu Etry
must quicken her energies, and by every possible
IN cans, add to her productive power? Numbers
in the field will avail but little, if our labor
he not able to support armies and save the ma
ton from hopeless bankruptcy
In a word, it is not less by the productive than
by our destructive energies that we who struggle
for the integrity of the Republic may hope for a
final triumph. But both of these classes of ener-
gies depend firstly and lastly upon the superiority
of our Industry, it's Intelligence and devotion to
the national cause. And inasmuch as both the
Intelligence and the enthu siasm of our Il dustry
are greatly promoted by State Exhibitions ike the
one proposed, does it not become our bounden du-
ty, apart from all considerations of individual and
personal interest," which would, ordinarily, alone
afford sufficient inducement, to contribute of our
best efforts to the success of the Exhibition to
be held at GAINESVILLE, the Goth to the Both, in
elusive, of September next?
Most of our sister States have continued their
exhibitions without interruption since the begin
ming OF the Let us be reproyed and stimula-
ted by their worthy example
An exceedingly liberal list OF prizes has been
offered, and vigorous measures will be taken by
the officers of the Society to make all the arrange
ments as satisfactory possible
To all citizens of Wisconsin interested in the
progress of industry and the prosperity of the
Commonwealth, we would say: The time for prep
aration is brief; let your action be prompt, ener-
getie and perseyering, and, in despite of all the
embarrass ments incident to the times and season,
shall have exhibition that will redeem the
credit we have lost a State by successive onis-
sions, and largely contribute to the advancement
OF our industrial interests.
On behalf of the Executive Committee.
J. W. HOYT, Sec'y ". S. A S.
STATE AGRICULTURAL Rooms, Madison, Wis,
July, 1854.