The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-17
rur ATLASTA EXPOSITION

ruy ATLANTA EXPOSITION
This exposition Of southern fabrics va,
ried industries, applied sciences mino,"
ores and agricultural productions Nv Nv
Iar,o' has boen an eminent success IN every
rcspect. save one-vcry few people nave
gone TO sec It. The reason oil TINS 10 NOV
yorv clear. 1t is, perhaps, from tne iac,
A,,,rto hotels and boarding houses allowed
n rcnort to get out they intended TO charge
double their ordinary rates, ana unqu,a'
tionably from the fact the ra,iroaoS'
until now, refused to make any m"rNeu ~,
5,,ot;ou IN their fare. They have seen ther
800 and are drumming for tray
elers and visitors IN u 's'yie
bordering on the frantic and win inc inos'
indifferent success. That the snow mas
been poorly patronzcd is to be deeply re-
orottea II was and is altogether worthy
e. hotter n more liberal fate. Northern
visitors are unanimous in its praise, lhey
saw Il is far superior to anything they ever
cow in their states, and some even pro-
nounce 1t equal to the Philadelphia cen
tennial Before it opened it was doubted II
the time had come for the south 10 unoer
take thing of that kind, 1t was thousn'
zoo soon after the war to make an
ovnosure of our emblems and evil
donces of civilization 10 advantage
We would suffer by comparison
with the supposed more opulent mor'n.
The directory, however, we're OF diiierent
oninion, and went bravely forward with TINS
undertaking. The result has been on ,he
order astonishing like the figures and facts
of the southern states drawn out by the cell
sus of1sSO. Those who in their concelt ana
spite had made up their minds that the
south was a dead and an inanimate country
and upon the retrograde, are again puzzleu
to know what to make of the splenulo eAiii-
bition. They there find specimens OF hanul-
craft, of "cunning workers in gold, prass,
wood and iron" they little dreamed
could come out of their denounced ana
much maligned Nazareth. And perhaps
they viewed with a qualm OF tear those
matchless natural productions OF our SOILS
the ores from our mountains and grain and
cotton and sugar from our Valleys--as
pointing the drift of empire in the not re-
mote future. Everything is there they ever
knew at the north and countless things be-
sides which have no existence among them
Every true political economist knows that
the wealth of nations does not wholly con-
sist in artifce. And he knows no
wealth can permanently exist with
out being literally sustained by nature.
He knows the reason the once opulent AS
syria has disappeared i'll oblivion, ana
England is the richest country on earth.
And were he truly acquainted with the
south during the war and learned in the ca
pacities and productions of its soil, he had
no fear whatever what its ultimate destiny
would b. That to be seen at Atlanta to-
day is but moiety of that behind it, and
that there and that at home, ere but atoms
NJ VIA. lbs ture will bring forth.
And this liberation will not
wholly pass away without seeing
,nbre startling re, buttons than have taken
risee recently As Britain disappeared
uHis, the yilud of the dark ages and reap
neofed a3 England, so the south was
shroudyd by the calamities of civil war,
ON, to emerge grander and a nobler
country at future time. This reaction
might have been predicted by men less
of human affairs than the con-
ouerors of the south. For it is to be chiefly
ascribed to law as certain as the laws
which regulate the trade winds and the sue
cession of the seasons. 1t is the nature OF
l<H%errate present evil and I'M
1errate present good; to long for what he
has not, and be dissatisfied with what he
has. This propensity, as it APP
pears in individuals, has often
been noticed, both by laughing
and by weeping philosophers. 1t was
eavorite theme of Horace and Pascal, OF
yoltaire and of Johnson. To its influence
On the fate of great communities may be
most of the revolutions recorded
in history. Emerging from the war stripped
IF their wealth, their pride humbled by a
Zoe they never acknowledged their superior
IN any respect, the southern people, thor
5ughly dissatisfied and chagrined at their
allure, recommended the battle of life with
hat old energy which first attacked the
forests of Virginia, the Carolinas and
Ieoreia in the sixteenth century. Silently |
md without murmur they have been at
york for seventeen years. The production
II cotton has been doubled, networks Of
always laid down, mines opened and pop
ilation doubled. The Huguenot and the
Cavalier are again rising to the zenith OF
bower and influence they held under Louis
XIV. and Charles l., and in exile exercised
lpon tile first half century Of the North |
American republic.