The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-10-11
The new soUatIl.


Of the National Cotton Planters Asso-
citation, and the man who conceived
the idea of the Worlds Exposition
that is to be held at New Orleans next
winter, has been spending few days
in Boston. He says that the exhibits
of European manufacturers will, in
many lines, be greatly superior to any
thing that was seen at the Centennial,
while all sections of the United States
outside of New England will be very
largely represented, For some reason
the usually far-sighted men of the
Eastern States have not taken action
like that of their Western and Middle
State competitors, and unless they
speedily recognize the Importance Of
action of some sort, and put in their
applications for space, they will, when
too late to rectify it, see that they
have made a serious mistake. Gen.
Morehead states that Capt. Mullen, the
Chief of Installation, is reserving a
large area for the manufacturers of
New England, because the manage
ment of the Exposition is unanimous
in its wish that the manufactures of
the section should be fully represent
ed, but he cannot stand the pressure
from other sections much longer, and
will be compelled to give 1t up. The
New Orleans managers are not consult
ing New England interests in pursuing
this course, but those Of the South.
New ideas are making great headway
in the Southern States. One thing
there that the people have learned ID
that they can buy to the best advan-
tage from the manufacturer or his inn
mediate agents. Another is, that
there are thousands Of labor saving
things, great and small, that have
been used so long at the North that
they are thought mere matters Of
course, while to Southerners they are
Now, whether these save
time and labor in the kitchen, the
dairy, the stable, or on the farm, the
people of the South want them, for
they have learned that labor-saying is
true economy, A friend Of Gen. More
head, who never came north of Macon
and Dixon's line until last year, spent
two months in Massachusetts, and Con-
necticut When he returned, he said /:
" Thoss Yankees are the only people
in the world who know how TO live"
A great many SoutherneFs have been
in New England in the past ten years,
and many Of them feel as this gentle
man does, although they do not put it
quite so tersely, The Exposition gives
the South chance to learn how the
North has done this, how II is that
with a severe climate and soil that,
from the Southern standpoint, seems
to be sterile, the people of the North
have ainassed wealth and surrounded
with all their home com
forts and delights. There IL luxury
in the home surroundings of the mid
ile-class people here, says Gen. More
head, that none but the very wealthy
southerner ever possesses.
Another thing we want the North
10 show us at New Orleans next winter
Is its manufacturing processes and ma
phinery Of every kind. The Whitman
tic Linen Company and the American
Watch Company are going to exhibit
fully, but we want representatives from
the other industries, and above all we
would like to see a clock factory, We
have bought brass clocks for genera
lions, and would like TO sec how you
make them. We are in 4 different
shape industFially from what we were
when we depended on slave labor, We
have iron, coal and copper in the
South, Furnaces, foundlies and ma
chine shops have been built. We have
many Of our brightest young men in
Massachusetts, learning trades.
We wish TO run cotton mills, aud
to know how TO make repairs when
breaks down, Only think Of
Il; / heard not long ago Of man
who owned q grain thTasher, II broke
down In the midst Of harvest, He
rode 6b miles over . rough mountain
country TO the nearest station, and
then telegFsphed more than 800 miles
for duplicate Of the broken piece ta
DO sent so'him BY express, waited two
days before he got il, and then went
back home, The break cost him sew
eFal hundred dollars, and lost 70 the
farmers Of bis county more than 2000
bushels Of wheat We muat maka al
such things a. the 60uth, buA atill, foF
many generations, WE mpst lock I'd
tie North feF the great bnk III anF
tools. isinisiaaHtS, Z es9tssiaR mad family
utensils Every gear DIV ablIitV t8