The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-06-10
An Exposition Meeting In New
Orleans.

On Monday night. ri instant. ''rcccI
given Drector-General Burke by the chief
commercial bodies and citizens of New
Orleans A vast auditory assembled in
the Washington Artillery Hall, and upon
the stage were foreign consuls and promi
nent members of the Cotton Exchange"
Produce Exchange, Sugar Exchange,
Chambor of Commerce., Mechanics
Dealers and Iumbcrmans' Exchange,
Mexican, Central American and South
American Commercial Exchange. After
an address in which he paid m eloquent
tribute to the public spirit and ability Of
son Introduced Major Burke to the mul
titudn, and he came forward amid storm
Of applause and offerings of flowers In
an address of length Major Burke re-
viewed the manufacturing and agrlcutu-
raj interests of the South and their pro
gross in recent years, and our commercial
relations as to certain foreign countries
with which we now have but small pro-
portion Of the direct trade which we
should and can have by properly directed
effort. The development Of the com
merce, the opening of intercourse with
these people, is main purpose of the Ex-
position, while it will be Of direct and i'm
mediate benefit to the South and it's chief
city The United States has had but
small share Of the commerce of Spanish
America, and one object of the Exposi-
ton, as located at New Orleans, is to at
tack the monopoly of this traffic by Euro
pean nations Said Major Burke:
Situated az New Orleans is, at the very door of
Spanish America, and at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi, which, with its fortytwo commercial tribu-
tarcs is nayioabe Is, 900 miles, and intersects
borders twenty one states and Territories it is
natural gateway between the great interior Of the
United States and the foreign markets OF the South.
An Exposition here is located where it will do the
most good, and is, for the reasons above stated,
ceedingly timely. 1t will give the manufacturers of
the United States a most advantageous introduction
to the A., 100000 consumers OF Mexico, the West In
dies Central aid South America 1t will, therefore,
meet one Of the most pressing demands of the day,
new foreign markets for our surplus products.
How imperative this demand is may be seen from
recent declarations Of prominent American states
men, Republicans well az Democrats, Protection
lists "a well as Revenue Reforners.
The commerce of the Pacific countries
is also to be reached for, and referring to
this Major Burke expresses his faith in
the Ship Railway scheme, in which, it is
stated, Captain Eads has interested suffi
cient foreign capital to insure its construc-
ton:
The Exposition located at the mouth of the great
river. which will soon be practically prolonged 10
the Pacific by Captain Ead's Ship K ilway across
Tehuantcpec will give American industries a timely
Introduction 10 those important but hitherto neg
lected markets.
Referring to the recent wonderful devel
ment of the resources and industries of
the South, to which the attention Of for
eign capitalists and craftsmen will be at
tracted by the Exposition, Major Burke
made the astonishing statement that
"there has been an investment of $40 ,500,-
600 in new manufacturing and mining en-
terprises in the South since the first of
January, 1884" For the products of
these manufactures the markets Of Span
ish America should be opened, being the
nearest and most profitable.
Our space permits the following ex-
tracts from the Drector-General's ad
lress:
The:international character OF the Exposition is