The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-30
THE NORTH CAROLINA
EXPOSITION.

(Philadeldhla TImes.)
While some sections OF the South
have been cursed With get-rich-quick
bubbles, noated by cunning and IN.
scrupulous spectators, it is graft.
flying to note the fact that the gener-
al industrial advancement in the
South Is substantial and healthy.
A better understanding has lately
been brought about Of the mutual
wants of the South. We have i'm
mense surplus capital; they have
incalculable undeveloped wealth;
and gradually our people are learning
the truth that in many sections of
the South the same amount Of capital
and labor will produce much more
profitable results in the same Undue
try than they will produce in the
North.
During the last decade the South
has done much to make it's resources
understood in the North by a sue
cesslon OF State expositions. The
National Exposition of New Orleans
was financial failure. but it accom-
plished good recults. 1t was the
best object lesson the South had
ever presented to the country and
the world, AID its beneGcent inllu>
ence is not yet ended; but the more
practical method Of portraylng the
tempting wealth of the Solth has
been by state Expositions. They
have been held at Louisville, at AT.
lanta, at Montgomery and at other
points in the South, and they have
gathered practical men Of capital
from every part of the North, result
ting in Northern investments and
Northern energy finding their way
into scores of localities which have
been rapidly developed into indus.
trial centres.
The Southern Exposition for 1891
will be held in Raleigh. the Capital
of North Carolina, from the first of
October until the first of December.
In this movement all of the fourtee O
Southern States and New Mexico
and Arizona have united, and it will
certainly be one of the most interes.
ting and instructive of all the expo.
sltions in the South for Northern
people. 1t will bring oat more
prominently than ever before the
agricultural resources of the South,
and the great advantages the old
Southern States offer to farmers
over the far West. Ten ye.rs age
the times predicted, after a very
careful examination into the aericul.
tural condition and opportunities
Of the South, that the time coull not
be far distant when the tide of 40
riccltural emigration would turn
from the setting sun to the more
inviting South, and every year ha:
strengthened that conviction.
North Carolina Is pecnljarlv m
agricultural State. 1t has iron spd
coal; it has cotton and tobacco; il
has every cereal grown in Pennsyl.
wants; 1t has fine pastures, grand
water powerf, valuable timber, genial
climate, fruits IN almost every va
riety, and easy access to markets
but it has, above all, hundreds OF
thousands of acres of worn or half
titled lands which are much more
valuable to the practical farmer to-
day than the lands in the West cost.
iug quite as much. and where dis
tanses from mar .ets and cyclones.
droughts, grasshoppers, etc, rob
the farmer of the fruits of his toll
The North Carolina Exposition will
be most valuable lesson to the
North in the agricultural resources
of that State especially, and Of the
old Southern States generally, and
thousands of Northern people OF all
industrial classes should get down
10 Raleigh during the fall months.