Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-02
COTTON CENTENNIAL
The Misrepresentation Set Afioat in
Louisville Libeling the Gotten Plant
ers' Association and
DeeryiBg = Legitimate Effort Of that
Body 10 Push the Future OF
the Cotton Belt.


Regula, Correspondence of the Appeal
VIcKsBURe, December 31.-Tne Louisville
Courier Journal has recently been doing some
very unfair work, paipably for the purpose
OF lnluang the prospects OF The proposed
Cotton Centennial TO be held in 1884 under
the auspices of the National Cotton Planters
Association. Its object seems to be to wreck
that eDierprif'e and build up lis own local
sol dtsGHt Cotton Exposition upon It's ruin.
Such spiiefnI and pigmy-like attack upon
an enterprise backed BY the most prominent
and prosperous planters IN the cotton States,
would, at first biush, seem too ridiculous to
deserve serious comment, "but the insignif-
canoe of the offender is lost in the magni-
lus1e the offense."
ThsS ,euSie,- JOsanaPs plan of procedure in
this 81 yseems to be 20 utterly ignore facts
and rect It's case purely upon assertions. For
instsncP, In an article in its issue OF Deoem-
Der 27sa, 1t characteriZ IS the enterpris. as q
scheme Tor the individual aggrsndiz ment of
a lew individuals, an effort Of one or two
men "to have an exposition st the expense
of some one else" l. then goes on 10 re-
print an absurd interview with a certain
nameless Cincinnsti merchant, who is made
to say that "the affair wss Il scheme
to get cotton factory for VIcks-
burg Tree of cost" It also quotes
an alleged statement by somebody else, to
the effect that not one Of the gentlemen con-
nected with the Cotton Centennial could
draw his check fer $1,000; that the "repre-
sentstion is composed Of enterprisipg report
ers and their ASST ciates" II also makes
many other equally silly statements. all cal
Gu ated to misiead the public mind and to
ipjure and insult the entire planting interest,
Now such conduct as THE on The part of
thu Courier-Journai is Al contemplate as it is
short.sigbted and uuwl4e, and can only re-
suit in .delriment alike. 10 Louisvile's expo
siion and to her Southern trade. The wiser
and more sagscious of Louisvillt's business
men eauuo. fail TO zee this and TO condemn
the Coz "a aJoapnaPs unfair oonducl, never
thelessi hey cssRot escape responsibility in
the m s..er y ~ the leading Journal of
city Dtess is always presumed 10 reflect the
sentime5 ef Ills cosn15efeiss men. -
IL i, rue that not many OF the planters in
the SosLhs sre Jay sGouids OF Vanderbilis,
but thu cotton crop alone brings Ia annu-
ally az wards OF $3.50 100000 The National
Cotton, EPlsnters' Associations influence Is
very aSeat in determining where this vast
sum shall be expended, and Louisville's
| ehare Ct il has not YET reached such figure
| as to render il expedient for her 10 declare
| war on an enterprise backed by such an
| organizations. But let US suppose, violent
| Vile Courier Journal shsuld ratceed 10 de-
featinf the P,aate+si Cotton CeureuuiSf, tiues
| il not rtand 10 reason that such a victory
must ia the end result in disastrous defeat
TO herpwn local enterprise? For without a
Southsfn attendance and Southern exhibits
it wilkunquestionably prove but . laughing
stock SPECIALLY alter all, the pretentions il
has nd de about being a cotton exposition.
ins1ltf and efforts al injury directed against
every mernber of the Cotton Planters Asso-
ciatiok are certainly not likely to be re-
wsrdei by any great influx toward Louis
vile 3f either planters themselves or the
product Of their plantations. Our planters
are tslerably piour, but not quite pious
enou& 10 Kiss the smiling rod, or wber
smiriaa on one cheek 20 siraightway turn
the ofaer-
In Conclusion it is hardly necessary 10 re
mind The CourierJotanai of what it already
knows well enough, namely, that the pro
posed Worlds Cotton Centennial i. to b,
held under unanimously passed resolution
OF the National Cotton Planters Association
assembled at Little Rick, and that its at
tempt 10 make the impression that it is an.
individuals scheme is as outrageous perver
sion Of truth, and that i only stulti6es itsel
by pretending TO believe such to be III
case. COTTON.