The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-31
LET THE SOUTHWEST BE NEXT.

to her ordinary life, but the best advertised
and from that fact probably the most prom
Using city in the Cotton States. With
population of less than 10000 souls, she has
nevertheless through the enterprise and in
telligencs and liberality Of her citizens
been enabled to give the world an Interna'
tional Exposition, something indeed never
attempted previously by any but the i'm
menso centres of population, wealth and
trade whether on this side or the other
side of the Atlantic. 1t is this one thing
more than any other that has given her in
the premises such a prestige, reinforced OF
course by the undoubted excellence of the
exhibition itself. Nations have been i'm
pressed with surprise at the present and
prospective power and wealth of the Sunny
South and a sectional interchange of views
and feeling in the United States has re-
suited that has already begun to pro-
duce the happiest consequences and contin-
ues to give promise Of even greater.
Now the question arises, what next2. Who
will now first take advantage Of this lesson
in successful enterprise and advertising,
who will in short profit by this good ex-
ample? We suggest these inquiries to the
business men of Dallas and surrounding
country. No portion of the globe has
within the last twelve or eighteen months
experienced such change, or so attracted
the attention Of enormous masses OF capital
or become SO prominent upon the emil
grants or speculator's map, or so rapidly
improved, in a word, as has the great South
west, of which Texas is the foremost quar-
ter. But TO intelligent millions i'll America
and other quarters this part of the world is
as yet even as terra incognita and may
possibly remain so for some years to come.
There is II means though of placing it, by
one wcll-timcd step, in the front ranks OF
popular and famous and well-understood
sections. What does it matter for us to say
the money kings are investing i'll ana
developing with unusual rapidity the
Southwest? TO the mass of readers and
capitalists this announcement may
be an item of news, but sym
pathy and practical interest are only
aroused by visible, prominent and extern
sively advertised exhibitions of the many
and real features of the landscape, its eli
mate, its possibilities, its actual condition.
1t was in this way that Atlanta directed at
tcntion to the South and in this manner
alone could it have been done. The Gate
City has given us our cue and now We want
the Southwest to come to the front and in
vitc strangers to an early display of herself
in Southwestern Exposition. By next
fall the various network of railways now
branching out in every direction through
Texas, Arkansas New and Old Mexico and
Arizona will be brought to that degree of
completion by which it will be possible to
empty into the lap of a city of our size
prominence and peculiar accessibility for
the countries named and the Indian Terri
tory, all the riches and products, the curl
osities and manufactures and minerals, the
evidences of its status now in the civilized
world and Its hope and possibilities of the
future. 1t is absurd or impracticable to
contend that growing and pros
porous city centrally located in
the finest fields of the continent,
with population larger than half of At
lanta, which has just successfully enter
tanned the world, and with her arteries of
trade extending in every direction, is it
idle or visionary to contend, We re-
peat that such city can manipulate and
carry to brilliant success an exposition of
this grand Southwest? Indeed, nothing
would be more easy or possible of execu-
ton than such plan. Dallas, pfe-emi-
nently by her situation and facilities and
population, fills the bill, and no other city
we know of in the country named does.
We have clear-headed, energetic, successful
business men, as much SO indeed as had
Atlanta, and If they would determine, by
the proper organization and methods, on
the opening of another year to give to the
Southwest an exposition crcditablc to its
magnitude and variety Of resource aud oc-
cupation, in Dallas next fall, they would
confer favor and benefit on their neigh
bors and the outside world only if second
to what has been done here in the
past ten years. Subscriptions could be,
We doubt not, easily obtained from
Missouri TO the Gull, and from
the Mississippi to the Gulf of California
The railroads so vitality interested would
generously respond, space could be sold all
over the Union even, but certainly to every
county and section in the whole area of the
territsry to be represented, and from othel
sources a surplus even Of funds Tor the CT
hlblt might be obtained. We have nevei
had such display, and we want to see il IL
this city this coming year. 1t may be mad,
to its incorporatofs and to Dallas as rich
bonanza financially as the Intcrnationa
Exposition at Atlanta has proven to II,
leading spirits and the citizens of Georgia.
capital. Who will Of our business men tax,
the initiative2 Only pluck, ambition, sys
TEN and intelligence are needed in the mat
tor, and wo have all of these factors here.
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WHAT has become of the ordinance o
1872, passed by the City Council, dedlca,inl
nil the land on the blufr of the river. be