The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-10-17
CHICAGO AND TIE WORLDS FAIR.
THE METROPOLIS OF THE GREAT
NORTHWEST THE PLACE
FOR 1T.
Some Reasons Why the Great Exposi-
ti0n of 1892 Should be Held in the
Lake City.
tChicago Daily News.

Lake City.
lChicago Daily News.
Here and there in an occasional
Southern city a journal is to be found
which seems to think it incumbent
that it should antagonize the claims of
Chicago to the worlds fair of 1892.
So far as this antagonism is founded
on belief in the superior advantages of
any other locality-no matter how er-
roneous such belief may bet is en-
titled to some degree OF respect. But
when this antagonism is based on such
assertions as that "Chicago's vision is
obscured by contracted horizon of
hate and malice and malignant mis-
representation of the Southern people,
their enterprises, their loyalty, and
their greatness s'-that although "twen
ty-fve years, quarter of a century,
have elapsed since the war yet Chicago
has had nothing but words of. hate,
vilifcation, and abuse" for the South
and that "could Chicago once Sc
cure the exposition, judging its future
by its past, it would use the opportu-
nifty for poisoning the minds of the
strangers within its gates against the
South, its people, and its opportuni-
ties"-when such statements are de-
liberately published as reasons for re-
jecting Chicago's claims one Of two
things is certain: Either the writer's
are deliberately falsifying for partisan
purposes as do their Northern copart-
ners in the unholy effort to keep alive
the fires of sectional discord, or they
are fanatics of the stripe Of. Harper of
the old-time Okolona States. In either
event they are incapable of being reas
oned with and hence unworthy of at
tention. s..
With that other class, who honestly
but mistakenly believe that the inter
ests of the South would be better sub
served elsewhere than in Chicago, the
case is different. For them it may be
worth while to summarize some of the
indisputable facts which give this city
claim upon Southern support in our
efforts to secure the great exposition.
And first as to the sentimental as
pect of the question;
1t has been heretofore pointed out
by the Daily Nez0s that the attitude
of Chicago toward the South whenever
that section was stricken by yellow
fever has done more to remove the
bitterness Of the war period than has
been accomplished anywhere else. 1t
was Chicago generosity largely which
equipped the relief-boat Chambers in
1878; it was Chicago physician who
kept his head through the trying
scenes at Vicksburg when Lieut.. Ben
ner-in command of the expedition
and himself an 1llinoisan-there died
of the fever, laying down his life in
bearing succor and relief to those
whom he had fought in war.
The same scenes were repeated al
Memphis in 1879, and again last year
when the whole South was panic
stricken by the Florida epidemic
Chicago on every occasion has thrown
wide open her doors and welcomed
the fleeing refugees. ~>.
When New York was arresting these
people for violating" absurd and use
less quarantines thousand miles away
and confning the unfortunates on 9
lonely island in her harbor-when hel
afrighted health officials were drag.
ging Prof. Proctor from his hotel and
consigning him to death in hospita
"a Chicago physician, DR.. Rauch
Secretary of the State Board of Health
was fighting the unnecessary and bar
barious quarantine and inviting al
who chose to come freely into Chicago
and Northern Illinois.
These repeated invitations have beer
accepted by thousands of well-to-de
Southerners who, during the last dozer
years or more, have sought shelter ano
security from the dreaded scourge ir
this city by the lake, and have here
made acquaintances and established
business relations. In return, with
true Southern hospitality, they have
invited Chicago business men to visit
them, and in this way Chicago capita
has come to be invested in the unde
| yeloped forests, the coal fields, and the
iron mines of that great region. West
ern energy, Western enterprise, West
ern ability, have met with Southern
open -handedness, Southern trust, anc
the Southern sense of honor, and the
result has been the marvellous develop
ment of the " New South. "
IF any city in the Union North 0
the Ohio river has claim upon ths
South-if any such city is the distinct
i've exponent of the great American
idea, the one place where a grea
worlds fair should be held-that cit,
is Chicago.
2. Chicago is pledged to the great
est engineering work of the century
work that, measured by its inevitable
results upon the material prosperity O