The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-16
THE WORLDS FAIR d,


or international exhibition comes off in Now
York City, or ostensibly in New York City
in 1888. The site selected for the exhibition
if we mistake not, is not Immediately vii q
the confines of the city Of New York, but il
a suburban portion Of the city some miles
removed from the great business centres, but
that is immaterial, as it is virtually and to ell
intents and purposes, in so for IS convent
enees are concerned as well located as il
il had been in Central park, Us
was first proposed and sought
TO be done AT this. fair there will be
exhibited the natural products and speci-
mems ofthe haudwork, skill and art Of every
civilized and semi-cvilized country on the
globe. The resources Of oriental and occi-
dental countries will BIO mingled in one
heterogeneous mass, but in systematic order
for the inspection, the study, the admratip d
and the enlightenment Of the millions of
visitors who will flock To- the scene Of the
mighty spectacle. Every state in the union
will max display Of some sort at this fair,
unless 1t is, perhaps, Texas. Our great
state, the grandest in this union Of states in
all that goes to make a state great in
so far as tho bounteous gifts OF
nature extend, is doomed to be unrepresepted,
unhesrd of in this stupendous gathering of
tbc ,W,,;r,,a 1f tla rot;S ~ tbn north ,tplgss
tho present legislature shall do something,
shall provide some means by which to conf
pass this most desirable end---a full and COM
plote exhibit Of what Texas is and can be.
We confess that we do not see our way clear
to the suggestion Of any plan by which Texas,
as q state can 60 to this worlds fair End
put herself on exhibition. 1t will take some
money and no money can be appropriated
for any purpose unless expressly provided
for in tho constitution. We have a
bureau OF statistics and history,
one of the departments of state,
with o commissioner in charge, s part of
whose duties it is to collect statistics Now,
lot us SEQ if the legislature could utilize this
department in the interest of tho state for a
display at the worlds fair We do not As
sert that this can be done in the manner we
shall sot forth, but only ask if it be possible
or feasible. Mr.. Webster, in his dictionary,
standard authority in this country and re.
ceived as such in the courts, says that the
definition of statistics Is "colocLion of
facts respecting the state Of society, the con-
dition of the people in a nation or country,
their health, longevity, domestic economy,
arts, property, and political strength, the
state of the country, etc" Well, it is coll
lection Of "flcts" that We want is it not,
if we make display at tho worlds fair ?
Let us appeal to Mr.. Webster again. lie
gays that "fact IL "anything done, or thst
comes to pass; on act a decd; on effect pro-
duced or achieved; an event." "Reelity;
truth" Statistics, then is u collection of
things DONE" of ''realities." Aren't col,
lection of the minerals of Toyss, of the va
rious kinds of stoneo, OF timber, Of field pro-
ducts, Of grasses, of soils, ETC., etc, collec.
ton of realities This may be specious
reasoning, but tho stupidilies of some consti-
tutionsl inhibitions cannot be met any othcr
way. Cannot the Legislature do something
TO help tho stat6in this natter We cannot
conceive that any argument is necessary to
show that II will be to the material benefit of
the state to make grand display a, this
worlds fair If any means can bo devised by
the Legislature for it to be done, but Just
think of what this exhibition will bo The
buildings, magnificent, handsome, elegant,
ornate structures, covering acres md acres
of ground, will of themselves be sight worth
the journey from Texas to New York 10 90.
The grounds surrounding them, spacious
aud beautiful to behold, will be marvels of
landscape gardening. And the throngs of
people of nearly every nationality under the
sun, with their peculiarities of manners md
dress, throngs of people that will reach up
into millions in number viii be wonder 70
look upon. And then the accumuls 81
articles animate and inanimale, nstu.
raj and artificial; the practical sud
the aesthetic, the useful and the ornamental
all telling tale and speaking in language
strong and convincing. If Texas could show
at this fair samples of her cotton, her sugar,
her corn, her wheat aud other small grain,
her grasses natural and cultivated, her tim.
bers, her soils, her minerals, her stones, her
cays, her vegetables, her fruits, her aora-sll
her botanical specimens, she will do the biz.
gest thing in the interest Of immigration and
to attract attention to her resources and ad.
vantages that she could possibly do. We
trust that the legislature will earnestly con
slider of this thing and if it can see lis way
clear to any action in this behalf that it will
unhesitatingly do it.
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