Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-31
MOVING TOWARDS NEW ORLEANS.
The Exhibition Association at Work
The City to be Canvassed for Contribu-
tions This Week.

The Exhibition Association at Work
The City to be Canvassed for COntribu-
tiOns This Week.
Chatham county is waking up to the
Importance of vigorous move towards a
representation of her interests at the New
Orleans Exposition. The Collection Com
mittee of the Chatham Exhibition Asso-
citation will call upon the citizens of
Savannah this week and solicit their aid
in raising funds to secure a proper ex-
hibit Of her resources and business.
Commissioner Harden has issued a cir
cular to the committee containing some
interesting facts as to the character aad
nature Of the exposition, showing the i'm
portance of Georgia having there an ex-
hibit worthy of her rank among the
States.
In answer to the question as to what
stand Georgia should take he says:
1t is not in her power to determine whether
or not she Will be represented. She has no
choice. The alternative is thrust upon her
of exhibiting her industry, her enterprise,
ference to her own interests. We, her sons,
boast that she is the Empire State of the
South. We must maintain our prestige, or
lose it, The money to be raised there
or to glorlfy New Orleans; it is to
do justice to ourselves, and ena-
bic us to keep our relative position among the
Southern States-tO insure our continued
prosperity by still further developing our re-
sOurces-by drawing to our State capital, and
muscle, and brains; by keeping at home what
the same class of people who have made
Georgia what she is. To do this we must
spend money.
Virgsnia has appropriated towards proper
exhibit $4,000; North Carolina, in addition to
her collection of minerals, which cost $l7, 600,
has appropriated $4,000; South Carolina,
$4,000, and expects to raise by voluntary sub
scription $4,000 more: Tennessee, $4,000:
Florida, $27 900, and $1,000 from the DisstOn
Land Company; Alabama, $4,000 from the
State and $4,000 from subscriptions; Louis
lana, as a State, 100000; New Orleans,
as a city, 100000, and by subscriptions,
100000 Texas besides voluntary collec-
tions, $4,000. 1t remains to be seen
what Georgia will do. The money raised is
to be used in getting together the various ar
tlcles to be exhibited; in fitting up properly
the space to be occupied at the Exposition; in
making suitable cabinets Of native woods for
the exhibition of various products in this sec
ton, cotton, rice, naval stores, fruits, Vege-
tables, grain, timber, lumber, woods, herbs,
soils with analysis, full statistics prepared
and published in readable form, illustrated by
cuts, plates, photographs, maps and charts,
setting forth our advantages of location, CHI
mate, soil, facilities for transacting business
in short, advertising our advantages to the
world.
The necessity for asking voluntary contri-
buttons is briefly this: The trainers of the
present constitution have so worded it that the
Governor and the Attorney General, in fact
all the State authorities, hold that the Legis-
lature can make no appropriation of any sort
for the purpose. Whether this view be cor
rect or not, or whether such provision ought
to have been put in the constitution. are mat
tiers which it would be futile to discuss; they
are existing facts. The Legislature does not
meet until November, too late to do any good,
even if it had the power to mas appro-
l priation, because, as the Expo9ESI "Opens on
Dec. /, next, all our prepar. ms must be
made and expenses incurred &g before that
time; and as the CommissdAss absolutely
get 10 compensation, either q -e2y or indi-
rectly, save the consciousness (H4elping to
sustain the honor of Georgia, it gid not be
expected that they should assume the risk and
responsibility of mourning debts before the
means Of payment were sure.