The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-04
ATLANTA COTTON EXPOSITION.

| ton Ga position 10 come Gu next ihohsh .
All nta, Georgia, as the "A,lsn.a OotoI
Exposition" so as to particularly locate .
and that the reader may at once understand
to what we refer. 1t is Tut about month
now, the 9th Of October, until It opens, anC
4 will continue until Saturday, Decembel
Slst. nearly three months IL Is to be ii
reality great worlds fair, truly On inter
national exposition, and as cotton is the grea
staple of the south, as this staple, with TIL
various implements for lis cultivation snC
machinery for its manufacture will agur'
most extensively at this exposition, 1t i
termed a cotton exposition. This enterprise
this grand exhibition, the conception Of Mr.
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, We deem the
most important movement in so far the
material development and prosperity
of the south is concerned, that has ever
been insuguratod. Mr.. Edward Atkinson
to whom belongs the honor Of having orgi-
ted this exposition, has made cotton manu-
featuring the study Of yesTs, and there ia 70
gentleman within the limits Of our entire
country who is better informed on this sub
ect than he II. There 10 no phase OF the
question with which he is not familiar,
and no lees that the south's opportunity is
in themauuiacture of her own great product,
The effect of this exposition will
be TO put the southern mind
to thinking upon this very
quostion-not mere casual thought, a su~
peracial considerations of the matter, but q
close and thorough investigation thereof
The multiplied Thousands of southern peo-
ple who will be presen! during tho three
months Of the exposition will zoe collected
there every character and description of ma
cbinery used In ginning, spinning end weay-
Ing cotton goods aud in printing cslicoes.
They will learn the cost of these various
machines, will tee them work, will find out
where they are made, and their
minds will be thrown into
tho channel Of manufactures They will
talk about them, hear them discussed, get
full ideas OF tho entire modus operandi of a
cotton MILL. Northern manufacturers and
capitalists will be attracted to the exhibi.
ton, and they too will DO put into Tho line
of thought, contemplating southern cotton
and wooden mills. They will inquire aS to
the feasibility Of such enterprises in the ysri-
Gus southern states, and the result will DO tina!
this cotton exposition will bear an abundance
Of good fruit for tho SOUTH We have said
much, tits true, on the establishment of
manufactures In the south, we know, but Il |
is subject that cannot become hackneyed. |
We are aware OF the fact that our state is yet
young, yet in the but developing process,
and per consequence there 10 little or no SUR
plus capital here TO invest in such enterpri.
ses, but still there ia some unapplied capital
In the country which, lift could be gotten
concentrated into ono lump, as it
were, by the formation OF joint stock
with small shares 80 that there
could DO numerous subscribers, We could
have cotton mills and woolen msnufsctories
in almost every community. We know a
gentleman In this city who is strongly i'm
bued with this idea. lie has proven by his
eminent success in life that no is u practical
business man, with clear, sound and pracs
tical Judgment, and he lie not only
thoroughly impressed with the Importance
to tho prosperity of the state, of manufac,
tories Of al kinds, but he has conceived and
wrought plan in his own mind,
plan of concentration OF capital by the
formation ola company or companies with
small shares into which every man with SlOO
or vi 600 to spare from his business can put
It, We know II is urged that in join, stock
the biz fish after little while
cat up the little fish, but this plan 10 10 have
no big fish in the sense referred Toto have
no large shareholders. This Is tho plan by
which tho New England people work.
They put their money together in
a join. stock company, and they build
cotton mills and other manufactures,
aad we all know how we'll OH those New
England people are. In union tLero is
strength and there 10 no strength like money
In large amounts 1t Is the mission of lhi.
international Cotton Exposition Of Atlanta
to secure manufactures for the south, is our
deliberate judgment. This being true, every
southern man can heartily, can earnoslly
wish i good speed and success. 1t will no,
be devoted exclusively 10 cotton and cotton
machinery, for II Is to DO in truth aud In fact
an exposition of the worlds products, natural
and artificial, the mechanical and fine arts
being given extra prominence in tho econ.
omy Of the undertaking, We are glad 10
see that Texas Is most inttlligenily repro,
sented among the commissioners, Messrs j.
Ia Leonard aud Wade aill being Of tho
number, from the various States, and we
trust that our great State, now among the
frat in quantity and quality of i,s cotton
production, will be prominent In tho pro,
ducts of all kinds Of It's soil as we'll rs in the
varieties Of lis timbers and minerals. If
Texas shall DO sot fort. In hor true ligh, at
this exposition, IL will secure for her thou.
sands OF immigrants OF tho worry best
class, immigrants who will have the means
to get them homo, of their own at once thus