The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-14

Some Fruits that the Atlanta Exposition
MaY be ENneeted To Rear.


May he Expected to Bear.
The industrial exhibition which opens to-
day at Atlanta, Ca, and viii continue for
the next three months, bids fair 70 mark the
opening of new era for the south. Ii
was first suggested by northern man inti-
mately concerned with the manufacturing
interests of New England, and its first pur-
pose was a display of the materials, agencies
and products connected with the great
staple of the south, cotton Since the enter
prise was started its scope has widened and
extended until il takes in substantially all
the industries of that section and many OF
those of the north and Of foreign countries
The manner in which it has grown on the
hands gifts promoters is an indication of the
great interest that is taken far ana near IN
the resources and industrial development of
that part of our country which in former
times was in material sense, isolated by
slavery. The south is just coming TO an
appreciation Gifts own capabilities and OPP
portunities. 1t is beginning to understand
how il has been kept back by the Circum-
stances of its history from its full share in
the growth and prosperity OF the country
1t is awakening to an activity and enter
world is interested in the promise and po-
tency Of the 70 fces which are beginning to
work for its regeneration.
Our southern states contain the cotton
fields of the world Their possession gives
those states an advantage, the fruits OF
which they have not yet begun to realize.
They have in time past produced their great
staple and brought il to market in hap
hazard way, with little attention to the
economies of the business, They have need
lessly exhausted their soil, they have gath
cred and baled the fibre in wasteful fash
ion, they have given little attention to Q
proper preparation of it for the market and
they have scarcely thought of such thing
sending 1t all TO distant markets They
have gone on year after year without
improving their machinery or their pro
ccsses, or making any positive advance in
the chief industry of their people. In adj
vocating great cotton exposition in the
south, Mr.. Edward Atkinson has had in
view the remedying ofthe deficiencies which
were so evident to wide-awake New Eng.
lander in the conduct of great industry
He saw that much could be done to pre-
serve or renew the strength of the soils, tC
improve the methods of separating the fibre
from the refuse, to utilize the seed, and &c
clcCl Ill or near tle HcluS the processes re-
quired to prepare cotton for the mill. In
short, he believed that the mere raising and
marketing of the raw material was an in
dustry in which great progress could bC
made.
All this will be revealed in the most vivit
manner by Il practical exhibition o
what can be done and how it can bt
accomplished But it Is not likely
that southern enterprise once fairl,
awakened, will stop short at producing
the raw material and getting it ready fo
the hand of the manufacturer. Why Shout,
it not build factories, set up machinery
within easy reach of tho fields, and max,
some Of the fabrics for which il produce
the material so abundantly2 So far Us tn,
home demand for these fabrics is concerned
there would be an obvious gain in meeting
it by home manufacture, and ii is not cas-
to see why the development of the industr
should be circumscribed by the HON
market. Mr.. Atkinson, with all his iriendl
interest in the cotton exposition has bee
disposed to disparage the advantages of tn
south for manufacturing its own staple Bu
most of his objections have been pretty e
fcctually answered. Proximity to the field
economy of transportation and handling
and abundant water-power are in its favor
and it has been conclusively shown that it
climate is rather an advantage than other
wise. The other chiefrequisites are capitS
and labor both of which are migratory an
easily attracted by the promise ola liberia
reward.-[New York Times.