Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-07-12
MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT NEW Or
LEANS.


ate $3.50 to make a display of the
countys resources at the New
Orleans Exposition:
We are asked to appropriate $3.50
for the purpose of having the re-
sources of our county properly
represented at the New Orleans
Exposition, which is expected to
open on December LIST OF the present
year and continue for six months.
This exposition was at first intend
ed as Cotton Centennial and pro-
posed originally in the interest OF
the cotton States, but since, owing
to its popularity as a means of adj
vertising, the demand for space
within its enclosure has been so
great, from both the United States
and Europe, that it has been chang
ed to an International or World
Exposition in order that all who
desired to do so, might share IFS adj
vantages as an advertising medium
for the purpose of inducing lmmi-
grafton to their sections, or custom
ers for the purchase of their prod
ucts, &c.
These advantages thus offered
will be valuable to those who mako
use of them, and to the same extent
detrimental to the interest Of those
sections that do not use them. Just
in the same manner rs newspapers,
or other advertising mediums, are
valuable or injurious to members OF
the mercantile classes in proportion
as they are used.
That is to say, If there are no adj
vertising mediums for any, all are
placed on the same footing in that
particular, for the chances of OBJ
tanning customers are for all alike;
but If there is an advertising me-
dunn, and it is used by some and
not by others, those who use it will
have greatly the advantage in OBJ
tanning customers over those who
do not. In towns and cities we will
usually find those merchants who
advertise their goods and wares
freely, generally more prosperous,
all other. things being equal, than
those who do not advertise. Some
may not have noticed this, but l
have on many occasions and / have
also noted that the wealthiest mer-
chants, or business men OF that class,
who have made their riches by le-
ultimate buying and selling, have
most generally been extensive adj
vertisers.
AS general rule the would-be
purchaser will not stroll very far
through the by-ways and streets of
Il city seeking in various houses
what he desires TO purchase when
he has been previously informed
through some advertising channel
where it can be gotten.
In like manner, will the intelli-
gent seeker for new home, or the
proper investment of capital, refuse
to expend their time and means in
wandering over the country seeking
for what has already been shown
them through some reliable process
of advertising.
If there was no means, or mode
of advertising for any section, or if
none would use, that which does
exist, then we of Montgomery
county, and the State OF Tennessee,
might console ourselves with the
idea that our chances were equal
with others, and thereby content
OURSELVES with doing nothing. Bat
since there are. modes. of advertis-
ing, and since all other intelligent
sections are using them in their own
interest, we are compelled TO do the
same thing, or be left far behind In
the worlds great race for wealth and
general prosperity. In this fast age
of rapid progress, whilst the whole
world around US is wide awake to
its interest, and the various other
sections of the South are awakening
up to the Importance of developing
their vast resources of wealth, we
must not remain asleep upon that
subject if we would prosper.
In order to show what others
think of the advantages of advertis-
ing themselves at the New Orleans
Exposition / will state as u fact,
that the enlightened nations of Eu
rope are all making arrangements to
have themselves and products. rep
resented there mt great expense of
wealth amounting in the aggregate
to many hundred thousand dollars.
The Mexican Government, as
stated in the papers, has appropria-
ted for that purpose $2J0,0O0. The
South American governments will
also be fully represented.
The United States government
through Congress, has appropriated
as loan, 81. 900, 900. and $3.50, 900 to
have herself represented. The va
rious States of the Union through
their legislature, when they are, or
have been in session, having apprO-
priated various sums, ranging up
ward as high as 100000 for the
purpose of having themselves, and |
products properly represented. !
Owing to the fact, that the Ten
nessee Legislature does not meet |
until January, one month after the
opening of the Exposition, our State
must depend alone upon aid from
the counties and private subscrip-
ton for the means necessary TO OBJ
tain proper representation.
Many of the counties have already
made appropriations of from $3.50 to
$500 while others are expected to do
so ut the present term OF their courts
Two counties, Chat of Davidson
and Shelby through their county