Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-08
THE COMING STATE FAIR.

ID. z. Duncan, President OF the SOutn
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical So
ciety, has addressed the following impor-
portant circular to the people of the State {:
Another annual State Fair is at hand, and
it remains for the people of South Carolina
to say whether it shall be even a greater,
more instructive and more useful one than
that of last year. What are the peculiar
inducements to bring all classes of our peo-
pie together at State Fair, beyond all other
occasions? First, it touches every mans
and woman's home and industry. There
is nothing within the round of our home
economy, let it be Of the narroWest or wild
est scope, that does not find room and eX-
preston in this great objective view of
what we are doing, how we are all living
and what remains for us to do hereafter in
seeing and knowing what is possible to just
such people as ourselves, our own neigh
bors, who perchance live but few miles
from us, or in cur own county or section, or
our own State.
The great improvement in agricultural
methods and implements, important as
these are, surely are not the most important
things to be seen at a State fair. Neither
are the improved live stock or agricultural
products, or manufactures, highly impor-
tant incentives as these are to progressive
industry. There is that to be felt and seen
and felt no where else. 1t is the aspiration
of all classes for a day of better things.
That which is the brave, earnest wish of an
industrious, honest people, that which they
crave and hope for in their hearts, and earn
estly believe themselves equal to, that
thing may be considered an accomplished
fact as soon as there is one heart and one
mind set upon it as great social and in
dustrial necessity. Now, when our people
come to State fair it is not one class that
comes, but all. Not only the well-to-do
farmer, mechanic or planter and their fam
lilies are to be found in the throng, but the
humblest citizens and their wives and
daughters come and are welcome, and more
than welcome-all find a common meeting
ground on this occasion Of all others. We
all come, not only to shake hands with our
old and accustomed friends and to exchange
old ideas and preconceived notions, but to
make new friends, to get new ideas Or to
impart them, and literally to feel the pulse
of the people and to know how we now are
and what all hope for. The numerous en-
tertainments of the most interesting char
acter which have been provided by the
citizens Of the State capital will be seen by
the largely distributed posters. These dis
plays will be even more attractive to all
classes of our people than they were last
y
articles on exhibition will be more varied
and improving and full of interest to all
than ever. Nothing will be left undone to
show what our people are doing and have
done. But there is one thing we cannot
place before the public eye-What we are
hoping for, what we mean to do and what
sagacious practical men see possible for the
future.
Now to meet this very desideratum, to
enable 'Nninformed people to see the true
meaning for the future in what they see be-
fore their eyes, it is proposed to hold public
discussion at our night meetings touching
the industrial. matters of the State, so that
we shall all 60 away with a better idea of
what it means for us and our children after
us. Whilst the pleasure-seekers are enjoy
ing themselves in innocent amusements,
the older or more practical heads may be
making reckoning of where we are in our
industrial progress and comparing notes IN
a practical way, which will send the wisest
of us back home with something, if not
much, to think about, which we are now
earnestly thinking of or not informed Of
at all before we met at the State Fair. Then
let me urge on our people, one and all, to
come to the State Fair this season. There
will be room for everybody this year,
and many new and attractive features in
the improved character Of the articles on
exhibition; also much to be enjoyed in the
entertainments provided by the citizens of
Columbia.
We all now see our way out of the
woods-if not in all things. Let us come
together in such a great gathering OF South
Carolinians, as we'll as visitors from other
States, as has not been seen within our
borders. Last year showed what was en-
tirely possible. Let this year show how
much more is possible.
D. p. DUNCAN, President