The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-06-14
AUURESS


ADDRESS
or tho Arkansas State Board o
Commissioners, to the People
of Arkansas.
Fellow Citizens Of Arkansas:
! The coming exhibition to be hell
in Louisville, KY. for one hundret
days, beginning August lst, is to b
the grandcst advertisement Of the re
sources of the several States Of ou
! Cnion tla6 has been Witnessed upol
this co1sin-is, except, perhaps, th'
centennial at Philadelphia. All th'
States OF the Union will avail them
selves of the opportunity. Never II
our history has there been such al
opportunity.
The refnnding of the public deb
at very low rates Of interest by tht
United States government, and The
evident disposition of the people t.
reduce even these low rates, have
set hundreds OF millions of capita
to looking about for new and better
investment.
| The late commercial panics ol
Europe, which locked up for many
months hundreds of millions in idle
ness, have set foreign capitalists tc
casting about for American invest
ment.
From various causes, tho, foreign
populations have been unusually
restless. Never in the past has
there been such an influx of foreign
immigration as at the present mo-
ment.
The great question with these mil
lions Of capital is where to invest
And with this immigration where
to settle. The Louisville Exposi-
tion is designed to afford answer to
these inquiries. Every State IN the
Union will have an opportunity OF
advertising whatever of Inducements
to capital and immigration it may
possess. Every other State will
seize the opportunity. Shall Arkan-
sas, with oil her wonderfully abund-
ant and varied resources, stand idly
by snd let this her golden opportu-
nifty pass, and her less favored rivals
carry of the prize OF prosperity?
No State in the Union surpasses
A rkan sas in the variety and quality
of her minerals.
She has seventy kinds of the most
valuable woods used in the mechani-
chat arts.
She is the fruit garden for the
northwest; the home of the peach
and all small fruits.
One hundred and fifty-6ve native
grasses, with q climate, soil and
water that makes stock raising a
success.
She has more miles OF navigable
waters within her boundary than
any other State In the Union.
She offers more Inducements 10
the capitalists aud home seeker than
any other place on the face of the
globe.
1t is estimated that the oak lum.
ber of Arkansas, if placed in the
.narket would morc than pay the ma
t.oLei debt
| Her soil is adapted to ali the cere.
ais Of our country, while her pineries
are among the best and most extens
i've on the continent, and ~ cotton
growing state she stands unrivaled
Shall the capital which will visit
Louisville in search of just such re-
| eo,,..-e ix< - rr..,rx I'll ,f tha,,, - :, ~
The late general assembly appro
priated the insignificant sum of $75(
for Mr.. Charles Wallace to make
such exhibibit 40 such . sum would
warrant. But better, far better, thai
Arkan sas make no exhibit at al
than that she should make dis
creditable one, for all the world vii
assume that she makes the bes. she
can and that she makes no better
because she cannot, aud thus capital
and immigration be repellcd rather
than attracted Accordingly The
governor has appointed the under
signed com missioners to appeal t.
the public spirit OF our people to aic
them in making an exhibit in which
our state viii find at once pride anc
profit. Nor cen your commissioners
feel that their appeal will be in vain
Assuming that the officers of th'
se everal counties have been chosen by
their respective constituencies Al
we'll for their other qualifications
and that they will teel pride il
having their counties as well repre-
sented at the exposition as possible
your commissioners have taken th,
liberty of appointing the county
Judges, sheriffs and circuit clerks o
the state as committee Of thei
respective counties to aid in collect
ing not only specimens of the min
eral, agricultural, horticultural an'
timber resources. but also to collec
such contributions Of money as the'
may, with which to defrav The ex
pense necessary TO make our exhibi
worthy Of our state and people.
| Mr.. S. II. Nowlin. correspondent.
secretary, at Little Rock, will gladl.
furn ish oil information TO parties de
string to assist in the enterprise
Counties which desire their exhibit
credited 10 them, will have all thei
products labeled with the names o
the respective counties Forwarding
them.