The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-17

hoped for from De Lesseps' gigantic
undertaking. The completion of the
great waterway between Lake Michi-
gan and the Mississippi river means as
much to the South as it does to Chi
cago. s..
When we have constructed the arti-
fetal link of the waterway Congress is
bound by promise and precedent to
complete the work by corresponding
development of the natural channel.
This will result in an improvement of
the Mississippi below the mouth Of the
Illinois vastly greater and more per-
manent than can be secured in any
other way.
1t will directly benefit every city
and town OH the lower Mississippi and
materially increase the importance of
New Orleans-the natural gateway of
Central and South American COM
| merce.
Our own undertaking makes us the
ally of every movement looking to Sc
curing deep-water harbors on the gulf
coast and of every effort toward the
development of inland navigation
matters of vital interest to the great
Mississippi valley.
3. Competent judges estimate that
the Worlds Fair, if held in New York,
will attract I 100000 visitors from the
West and Southwest; that the average
expenditures of these visitors will
amount to 5000 each, and that there
will thus be $500, 100000 Withdrawn
from Western and Southern capital to
be added to the plethoric Golfers of the
East.
Before this sum could find its way
back again through the natural chan
nels of trade serious embarrassment
might result to every merchant and
manufacturer in the depleted region.
From Chicago the return would be so
prompt that the effect would be hardly
appreciable.
d. The Southern railway connec-
tions of Chlcago-extending South
west to the Mexican capital, South to
every point on the gulf, and Southeast
to the Florida peninsula-are more
complete in every respect, cover a
greater area of the 'sNew South" and
are doing more in the wonderful de.
velopment of the vast resources of that
mighty empire than those of any Other
Northern city.
Finally: 1t is to the interest of the
"New South" that the exposition o
1892 should be held in Chicago, be
cause here only can the material re.
sources of that region be properly ex
plotted. If held in New York the fail
will be a more or less imperfect at
tempt at repeating the artifcialties O.
Paris, of Vienna, of London. The
European exhibitor will be catered te
| and consulted and toadied. Ward
McAllister's 400 snobs will dominate
the whole affair, and the American ex
hibitor and the American visitor will
be snubbed on the one hand and apol
| ogized for on the other.
Here in Chicago no American will
| be compelled to take a back seat. The
, European exhibitor, who goes wher
ever there is a prospect of reapine
American dollars, will be accorded
every proper facility and privilege ane
: every inducement will be held out te
bring him over the water. But tht
managers of the Chicago worlds fai
will see to it that America and Amer
leans have an equal show.
: If the occasion is to be a profitable
one to this country it must be indeed
7 a !" worlds" fair, and not cheap cop.
of French or English or Austrian ex
r position. 1t must be one in whicl
: America-North and South, East ant
West-in all her greatness, her re
| sources, her development, and her in
, stitutions, shall be honorably and ad
, equately represented.
Such worlds fair is impossible il
New York. Only such fair could b
} held in Chicago.