St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-03
Southern States Fair Circuit.

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ALL SOUTHERN FAIRs-DELRGATEs To
MEET IN BATON ROUGE, FEB. III, 1871.
The objects of fairs and expositlors are
two. fold-the education and encourage
ment of the home people in better methods
of culture and production OF breeding ana
care of manufacture, and development oy
the object lessons witnessed in these ag-
prepations of the reward Of labor and OF
skill. !,
The second great object Of fairs in the
South is to gather together At these cen
tiers general display of the products OF
the soil, the garden, the field, the forest
and the mine, where the visitor, prospectof
and immigrant cen see quickly, cheaply
and truly Just what the country Is, It's
wonderful capabilities and resources. ano
its people face to face.
That these latter objects may be accom-
plished, there must be some harmony ana
unity of purpose and action between the
State fairs, an agreement upon dates ana a
| Southern States Fair Circuit formed IN
| order to reach the best results.
Fairs are, in great measure, Ike the
| stres the exhibitors, stock men, etc, like
the actors who furnish the attractions
while the visitors are like the audience
1
pare stock of any kind for speed purposes
or exhibit at one fair as i, would to 20
around the circuit and be at all the large
fairs in the South. The same may be said
of exhibits of machinery patents, labor
saving inventions and generally all ex-
hibits which are of interest to the people.
| It would not pay troupe to prepare
nlsv and travel hundreds of miles to play
to small audience few days and then re-
tnrn home and disband, but by agreeing
mon dates and forming circuit this is
made possible So with stock men and
exhibitors. 1t does not pay them to OWE
and prepare valuable stock and other eX-
hibits and ship them from few to few
hundred miles to show to a slim sudlence
in a sparsely settled country for compare.
tiyely small purses and premiums anc
then return and wait another year. Bu
if the fairs OF the Southern States vii
meet and form a circuit and agree upoI
convenient dates they will find that botl
stock men and exhibitors of all kinds vii
readily fall into line with their exhibits
and 90 from one fair to another around tn
circuit at the reduced rates which tn
railroads will readily give, swelling tn
lists of exhibits and increasing the 1nteres
and attendance at every fair in the South
With the exhibits increased by thl
means and the general plan brought INT
a system, it becomes easy then for VISITOR
, and prospectors from other States to com
at the opening of the fair season in tn
South, following up the Southern state
Fair Circuit, see the South, its prospects
, resources and its people, 9uiikly, cheapi
. and plessurablv from year to year as
. could be done in no other way whatsoever
| There would be a great common interes
J in extended advertising at greatly reduce
, rates to each, If all the fairs went togethe
3 in this matter. Think what an attractiv
double column advertisement could b
l given the leading papers in this line urde
3 the head of ''The Southern State Fa
Circuit"
. What an iuducement to gee the South
! and how readily the railroads, North, Ea.
3 and West, would take hold of and pus
3 the advertising, as they alone can, ineucin
\ the people to come South during the se'
Q son of her great fairs
+; Even the same poster could be used
{ all fairs In the circuit, splendid man
q moth of general features, with the dat
D and premiums of each fair given in Il
}, margin.
With these united efforts any such thir
Il a. individual rivalry would quickly di
It appear, and it would be found that an.
It thing that could be done by one memb
y would add to and necessarily increase tt
= interest and prosperity of every fair {
1t the circuit throughout the South.
Without this agreement upon dates al
Y the establishment of circuit of the Sout
n ern fairs, advertisement must be limit
It and haphazsrded, the aid given by raj
IS roads either in this line or in other Undue
" ments will be partial, less liberal and co
d fined to mere local fields, while the me
d. neighborhood shows and attendance mu
ID grow tanner and less interesting eve
id wear, attended with tagging interest q
In diminished crowds to meet the same 9
Id dummies of exhibits.
or Without new and larger exhibits ca
1T wear, with new and larger attenda, &c,
lg course will be had to the me re exciteme
e of gaming and horse racing. snake show
"a balloon ascensions, etc. The associate
q passing further and further from the gr'
Id first objects of fsirs and expositions, a
ae nearer and nearer within the bounds
re control of local sports and SINNERS W
1T care for nothing but the mere temport
g. making of few dollars out OF the CROW
or AS a means of educating the people
ne inducing immigration, investors and hon
MT seekers to the South, her fairs have or
as power and opportunities. but their pov,
to IL little and opportunities limited wi
I'M acting independently and without COZ
ps eration and organization. plan Tor
ne creased advertising facilities might
ba fcnr1 ;n actohlishiur a nanaP of their Oy