The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-14
TEXAS A. gR ExpOsIrIOSs.


The Lou he exposition will
mark the be-. l..liug of = new era III
the history ot southern agriculture
The people of the northern states
will be there. inquiring into the real
condition of The south, and when if
is demonstrated to them that our
cheap lands may be made to produce
as much, and even more, than
the high priced lands of their region,
many will give way to the Glowing
at the north, and with the proceeds
Of their lands there will invest here.
Many of the southern states
are going to have fine
agricultural exhibitions at Louis
vile. Arkansas and Kentucky and
Tennessee and Florida are already
preparing their exhibits, while Texas
is satisfied to have commission Of
generals and colonies, without even
blade of grass, represent the dig
nifty and the resources of the great
State of Texas. The STATESMAN
urged that the state put money i'll
the great exhibitions, claiming that il
would be returned a thousand fold in
twelve months in increased taxation
IN Texas. There was no authority
directing the legislature or urging it
to make IN appropriation
for such purposes, and there
fore we have these empty generals
and colonies as the sole contributions
from Texas. In referring to this op-
portunity, which We are glad to know
will be taken advantage of by most
of the southern states the Courier
journal says:
More northern people will come to
Louisville than could by any means
he induced TO go TO any other south
ern city. 1t is no rash estimate to
place the attendance here during the
hundred days at one million. AS we
have said, these visitors will be made
up, to large extent, of families in
search of cheap and productive lands.
In addition to this the exposition will
be the industrial event of the year,
and it Will receive, as it has already
received, widespread attention from
the press. If the south is here wit h
the products of her fields as well as of
her mineS-if she sends corn and wheat
and tobacco as well as iron, peaches
and pears and grasses, as well as cot
ton, silk and sugar, vegetables and
oil IL Ill
derful variety of timber-if the south
will make an exhibit of this charac-
ter, which she can well make, it will
do more to attract attention, to bring
to us immigrants and capital, than
without such an exhibit she can ac-
compliSh in ten years with all her i'm
migration bureaus and land syndi-
Gates actively at work after their
usual and well-apprOved methods.
The agricultural committee of the
southern exposition will do all in its
power to make known in the north
the vast capabilities of southern agri-
culture. Its meXhauStiDle richness
and variety the south itself is only
just now beginning to understand, as
is evidenced by the growth OF truck
farming and stock raising. Here
tofore the impression has been wide
spread that the south was not a grass
growing country, but the states
east of the Mississippi are turning in
to the markets of the world vast
deal of mutton, while Texas is feeding
the world with most delicious fresh
beef. 1t is notifying to know that
at Boston and at Louisville and Gin
cinnati and Chicago and st. LOUIS,
great exhibitions are to be held,
where, unless through private enter
prise, there will be no exhibit re-
Winding the curious that such place
as Texas is on the map of the globe.
Such is a sample of the very great
wisdom that dire, is the public affairs
of Texas.