Wichita eagle., 1888-05-13
CINCINNATI, oH1o,s EXPOSITION.
Wichita and Sedgwick Countys Exhibits
From July to October.

To the Editor of the Daily Eagle.
Recalling the centennial and kansas
In connection with it, naturally our
pride is moved as we consider what we
can do, should do, must do, toward
bringing together the productions of
Sedgwick county and exhibiting them to
the people of the United States who shall
visit Cincinnati between the opening
and closing Of its exposition.
Personally, l have no motive in having
an exhibit" but as citizen, consider
ing only the future of Sedgwick county,
Its development as an entirety and the
results to follow from display of our
products, prudence dictates that we
spare neither time nor money, art nor
skill in being the most attractive sight in
that exposition hail. to the end
that We may captivate the eye
of every beholder OF our beauty,
and provoke desires to see US at home,
and become one Of us.
The neglect of the legislature to make
provision for a state exhibit by decent
appropriation, after going 50 far as to
confer on the governor power to appoint
commissioners to attend the exposition,
is, 10 the state, unfortunate, for the rea-
son that the commissioners are power
less to act.
Wichita was designated as a proper
place to select one of the commissioners,
and Hon. G. w. Clement, secretary of
the board OF trade Of Wichita, was APP
pointed. Mr.. Clement, in addition to
being gentleman of wide acquaintance
in Ohio, by reason of long residence
there, and official career, possesses the
Esprit of Kansas" in d large degree, and
is, perhaps, the fittest man for our pur-
pose that could have been appointed to
go to Cincinnati and look after the in
terests of the Arkansas valley, but if he
was an earthly god he could do nothing
without money and help from the city
and country, and from those people who
know Wichita best and love it most.
The failure on the part of the legis-
lature to make the necessary appropriation
to make the display, after appointing
Sedgwick county man as one OF the
commissioners, if we do our duty, Is
like finding diamond. If we are
prompt it looks as though we might
create the impression by our acts that
Kansas had been placed in regency and
that we were the capital and Our board
of trade as regents were representing
kansas" at the Cincinnati exposition.
The board of trade has secured space
at the exposition and has appointed
committees 10 attend to the selection
of the products, but the large amount of
money necessary expended last year
and TO be paid out this year demands
that we husband our means, and call on
l,a oft IF hn 10, ],
the money to meet the expenditure. The
estimate for a display is $4,000; the
estimate for a fine display 50 eco, but
the estimate for kansas dispiay-a
display long to be remembered, TO go
down TO history along beside
our corn train that will draw,
that newspapers will describe as a thing
Of beauty, that will tend to fright u.s. in
the east. that Wichita viii be proud of,
that will bring manufacturers and home
seekers TO us, that will be as bread cast
on the waters, bring back thousand
per cent on its Investment. A display
such as Wichita demands will cost
$1,000.
Let a committee be appointed. money
subscribed and paid and the undertaking
prosecuted with the earneStness Of Kan
SaS.
In conclusion it is desired to impress
the thought that the failure On the part
of the legislature to make an appropria-
ton is the one thing that entities it to
lasting respect. because that failure has
given Wichita the grandeSt opportunity
TO outshine ali former attempts at such
place that it hath ever had.
We will transfer the interest awakened
by the state to Wichita, be the cynosure,
shine with luster and be kansas to the
east, reflect credit on ourselves and con-
fer lasting prosperity on our entire coun-
try ''k ANSAS.