The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-14

did not come to view the Atlanta Expo
sition as a great show l have seen the
Centennial, and that must make all like eI-
hibitions pale before it, until another Cen
tennial of freedom shall come over the
dreamless sleep OF all the living of to-day.
But / have studied the grand Cotton Expo
sition now open in this city
with absorbing interest," as one
of the first great monuments which mark
the progress of the New South. 1t
has brought the Southern people together
as they never met before. They have come,
not to commemorate their heroism in de.
tense of and their devotion to-, the Lost
Cause, but to commemorate their deliver
ance from bondage of races that was mu-
tual and to gather fresh inspiration in the
effort to elevate and advance their posi-
ton and promote their wealth and
prosperity. And with the hitherto unknown
concentration of the South, the people
fthe North are here, in mutuallnterchange
of thought and energy, and the Exposition
is the handspring that will move the pendu-
lum, the hands, the stroke of the great ma
chinery of progress. Even the South is
amazed at the completeness of the Exposi'
ton, and the north is equally amazed at the
Northern people had to learn to enable
them to live. Sectional prejudices
perish as the Northerner and the Southerner
60 hand in hand to enjoy the beautiful pan
Drama OF Southern advancement.
THE NEW SOUTH AND ITS WEALTH.
The chief lessons of the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton are eminently practical, and they are
SO regarded by the Southern people. They
will give not only immediate but lasting
and incalculable fruits of the grandest char
acter. The Cotton Exposition will silence
the hum of many spindles in the
North and it will make the South much
more the legitimate field for both invention
and capital than IL has ever been in the
past 1t will teach to the great mass OF the
Southern people what only the theorists
have known until now-that the greatest
boon to the South after the cotton! gin is the
cotton spindle; and l hazard nothing
in saving that in another decade
Georgia will spin all her cotton, have
looms for most of it, and make the music
ofthe cotton factory heard in every cotton
centre ofthe South. OF all civilizations o.
the nineteenth century, the Old South wa
the only one that would have paid more
than two hundred millions OF dollars an
nually to a hated North to spin its cotton
With the cost of thousand miles OF trans
portation; the cost oil Dallngi tno injury u
the fibre by pressing and separatingi it again
for the spindle, and the increased cost OF
labor in the North, all pleading for the
spindle in the South, the North gathered
the chief profits of Southern products by
receiving the raw material and return
ing IL In web to be sold largely
to those who should have, it.. But
the New South has studied simple
arithmetic and its Cotton Exposition
is merely huge blackboard ON which
is presented to the whole South the plain
lesson that the three hundred million'
worth Of cotton, produced this year, will be
worth three hundred millions more when
the ample and icele.s water powers OF the
South shall be employed to whirl the mer
~ spindlcs At home. This Is the great
lesson of the Atlanta Exposition, and ths
preliminary progress that has made
the grand Exposition possible
has develoved measure .,o
invention and Advancement in the
South that Is truly wonderful. No one can
carefully note the cotton machinery at the
Exposition without accepting the convc
ton that even the old cotton gin and tht
old spindle will soon become integral parts
of tho same cunning implement, and that
the raw cotton from the field sack will be
spun by single process. That once ut
ined, or even the spinning Of the cotton