The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-05
The Great Missioner.
North Carolina Industrial Journal.

The so-called Southern Exposition at
Raleigh now apparently being held, is
about as striking an illustration Of a
proper and worthy display of Il South
lands and natural and mechan-
ical wealth as the noted satire and bur
lesque Of Ceramics Don Quixote" is Of
the Federal System and Knight-errantry
Of the 18th and Nth centuries.
Never can the state recall a more glar-
ing miSnomer; from being an interstate
representation, the Southern Exposition
at Raleigh is but a dwindiing side-show
and catch-penpy fakir exhibit for per-
sonal gain.
For the past four months the North
Carolina press has been misled and de,
luded into advertising this thing as a
general and generous exhibit Of the Old
South.
View with US for a few moments the
real conditions and exhibits there, and
then Judge if our criticisms flavor of
spite or misanthropy.
A Southern Exposition! What does
such a title imply? One would look for
a vast display Of The great and varied
agricultural staples so generously grown
in this land Of natural gifts.
AS the representative of this we find a
few small county displays from different
sections of North Carolina; not one
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Next: The great mineral deposits and
their corresponding mining and manu-
featuring developments and enterprises,
that form an unbroken chain from Mary
land to Alabama, which have during the
past few years come SO prominently for
ward in the production and manipulation
of iron, coal and stone, as almost to rev.
o%lutionize the trade in this line. The
vast phosphate deposits Of South Caro-
lima and Florida. where is their place?
In iron and coal we find a small ex-
hibit from the Chatham mines, and a few
sticks of pig" from Cranberry; North
Carolina alone.
Where the great cotton and tobacco
manufacturing interests?
The great tobacco centres of Louis
vile, Richmond, Petersburg, Lynchburg
and Winston are either not represented
at all, or just so barely as to hardly cause
notice. Durham is represented hy the
Bull Durham Tobacco Works."
The vast machine and locomotive
plants of Richmond, Louisville, Chatta-
nooga, Atlanta and Decatur are repre-
scented by vacancy.
The great southwest is even without
mention and call this a Southern Ex-
position, The attraction Of the place
seems to exist in all forms Of catch
penny siGc-shOw3 from The fat woman
and the stuffed snakes. shooting CALLER
ries, tin-type photos and merry-go-
rounds to the balloon asCensi0ns" One
pays half q dollar for tie exquisite pleas
ure of again paying from half dime to a
quar,cr of a dollar TO view such fakir
shows as the above enumeration.
Lets look at the state exhibit. The old
trumpery that has been piled away since
81 is again paraded, covered with dust,
from the Old fossil whale bones to the
trunks of dead and petrifcd trees. Not
one piece Of manufactured wood on ex-
hibi,ion. In minerals, the same old col
lection that can be seen any day in the
agricultural building in Raleigh, is
brought out and pushed into i'll merited
prominence.
or the county exhibits We will speak
for they in some instances
might well grace a good state fair.
Let our people be no longer deceived
by this pretense OF a Southern Show.
Us hope that the press will stop ad-
Vertising it as such, but stigmatize It as it
should be.
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