The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-03-21
THE soUrH Ar THE FAIR.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE SOUTHERN
STATES FROM ! HE COLUMBIA
EXPOSITION.
Hon. James A. Mckenzie Of Kentucky
Makes Strong Argument in Favor
OF Liberal Appropriations by
state Leqislaturesi

No part Of the Union has more
to gain than the South by a iuli
display of its resources and cyl
dences of progress ftthe " orla $
Columbian Exposition. +.
Rich IN all the conditions OF
wealth. with its immense natural
advantages as yet but palually
appropriated. it affords to- day the
most inviting field on this con-
tnent FOR the immigrant, the
manufacturer, dnd for the safe
and advantageous Investment OF
capital. without the least DIS
paragement to other sections, II
may be truthfully sa'd that the
South has more and superior adj
vantages to offer, both to the
Immigrant and capitalist, than
any other section of our country.
That distinguished and obsery-
ant citizen, Hon. Chauncey Nj.
Depew, recently made an extern
sive tour through the Southern
States. In an address to the
Alumni Association of Yale Unit
versity he said;
"The net results of this vlsll
to the South, to my mind IS just
this-that the South has the
bonanza of the future. We have
developed all the great and sud
den opportunities for wealth--o'
most of them-in the Northwest
ern States and on the Pacific
Slope, but here Is vast country
with the best climate IN the world,
with conditions of health which
are absolutely unparalleled; with
vast forests untouched with
enormous veins of coal and lror
which vet have nos known any
thing 1eyond their original con
ditlons: with soil that, undel
proper cultivation, for hitl'
capital, can support tremendous
population; with conditions II
the atmosphere tor comfortable
living winter ana summer whlct
exist nowhere else in the country
and that IS to be the attraction
for The young men who 60 ou
from the farms to seek settlemsn
and not by immigration iron
abroad, for 1 do pot think the,
will 90 that way, but by the in
ternal immigration from our owl
country it is to become IN time a
prosperous as airy other sectlol
Of the country and as prosperou
by purely American develop
ment.
The above is far sample 0
hundreds of opinions of prom
lnent men who have ylsliet tn
South and observed its great IN
dustrIal possibilities.
The progress and deyelopmep
of the great Northwest has mad
the world familiar with the spur
and energy Of its people. Tne IN
pulse of that progress, and tn
stimulus of its development,
largely attributable to the may
nlficent Displays made by th
States west of the Missouri Rive
at the Centennial Exposition
1876. These Northwestern State
have pro6ted by the Immens
benefit of the advertisement re
sulung from their displays, Will
the South seems 10 have been
laggard IN this regard. The tim
has now come for the South l
improve upon the measurele:
foresight of the Northwest. Th
Worlds Columbian Exposition q
1893 affords the South a con
splcuous opportunity, never agal
possible TO be repeated, for
display of the resources hidde
during the first century of ou
National existence. which il woul
be short sightei, if not criminal
TO neglect.
The coal-6elds of the Ar
palachlan chain, lying betwee
the Atlantic aud the Mississippi
River, have IN the short n:sr:cd (
twenty-five years
yestment and 80