The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-08-21
mississippi and the New Orleans
Exposition.

W liiC tCl tdIi lpuilllto anu SOliit
cities of Mississippi are doing some
thing in the way ofpreparlng exhibits
for the New Orleans Exposition, ! fear
that many counties are doing compara-
lively nothing upon the subject, and
it is to those that | wish to address a
few words.
1t is we'll known that the Worlds
Cotton Exposition owes its origin to
the National Cotton Planters Associ
alton, having its headquarters at Vicks-
burg, and that the project was given
shape, and a national recognition thro. h
the persistent effort of the indefatiga-
bic Col. Frank Morehead, President
Of the Association; that the President
of the worlds Cotton Exposition Col.
Edmund Richardson, is Of Mississippi
the largest cotton planter in the State
as well as in the world, and is
undoubtedly the largest tax payer in
the State; that G. NJ. Torgerson, the
famous architect whose fruitful brain
conceived the elaborate and beautiful
which the stately buildings of
the Exposition are being erected, is a
citizen of Oxford, Miss; that his ac-
complished assistant, Capt w. A.
Herring, civil engineer, is a citizen Of
Water Valley, Miss; that the com
munication OF a citizen Of Jackson,
Miss, to the Times Democrat, of the
18th, March, 1888, advocating New
Orleans, as the point where the Cot
ton Exposition should be held, INSTEAD
of Louisville, and appealing to the
citizens of New Orleans to secure it,
notwithstanding that the Cotton Ex-
change had declined to further the
enterprise, had much to do in arous-
ing public interest upon the subject
in New Orleans, resulting in that city
securing the Exposition; finally, that
citizens of Mississippi are furnishing
millions Of feet Of Mississippi lumber
out OF which the buildings are being
constructed, so that while the Expo
sition is to be held upon the soil of
another State, the Worlds Cotton
Centennial Exposition of New Orleans
is much more a creation Of Mississippi
than any other State in the Union, and
as such possesses more than ordinary
interest to every Mississippian, and
should lead him or her to spare no ex-
pense or labor to have mississippi
fully represented there i'll every de-
partment, and occupy the front place
Of honor in the great race for mastery
in the way of State displays. In this
laudable emulation Mississippi can
hold her hand with any State in the
South. Will gallant Alississippians
see that she does it?
Our efficient State Commissioner,
Maj. S. A, Jonas, of Aberdeen, has
indicated in numerous communica-
tions to the public, and by direct cor
respondence and personal interviews
with individuals throughout the State,
just exactly what he desired the peo-
pie to do in the way of making a dis
play Of the resources Of Mississippi;
but the Commissioner will come short
of accomplishing his mission, if the
people Of the several counties Of the
State do not sustain him and cooper
ate with him. The time is growing
short very rapidly, and whatever is
done must be done quickly, Those
counties in Mississippi which have
made no appropriation for county
displays should do so at their ap-
preaching regular meetings, and let
no laggards be found in such move
ment for the amelioration Of our
State.
In almost every county in Missis
sippi there are men of talent and ma
tive genius in various branches of the
arts and sciences; they are generally
poor men now, who have not means
to bear the expense of making the
articles in which they especially ex-
cell, without pecuniary assistance.
Just such men should be sought and
aided out of the county appropriation
being made, that their genius
may shine out to the credit OF Missis-
sippi in the grand array of meritori-
Gus articles which this State should
send as her contribution to the still
grander reflex which the South is to
make of her skill, her industry and
her unlimited resources at the great
Worlds Exposition.
Our women, too, like those of other
States, should organize in every coun-
ty and work with all their might to
forever "nail to the counter" the SLAM
der that the fair women of the South
are an indolent race, whose only aim
and ambition is to dress and surpass
in accomplishments for displays in
the parlor. Let them show to the
world That the spartan mothers and
daughters who for four long years
suffered the privations of the war and
the complete up-heaval of our social
system since the war, throwing them
in great measure upon their own
resources, all of which they have suf
fered with heroic fortitude and with
out murmur, are not the drones in our
social fabric of the present day, that
they are represented by our villid-
ers. The women of the South, at this
great Exposition, have the grandest
opportunity to vindicate themselves
that they ever had; that will avail
themselves of it | cannot but believe.
That the Exposition at New Orleans
will be of immense advantage to the
State of Mississippi to advertise her
self to the world no one can dispute.
What we want is population of the
right sort, and population S wealth.
We have a most balmy climate and
every variety of soil that can be de-
sired. Here we can grow almost
anvthinU that iS crown in anv mart of