Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-07
CENTRAL AMERICA
Begins to Realize the POSsibiIi-
ties Before Her.
Opportunities Which the Exposition
Will Provide.
Worlds Fair Editorial Of a Pan
anna Newspaper.


trnI American Caribbean Coast and
Connect with Our Railroads at New
Orleans--The New Line of Direct Com.
m unicatioa WIN Supply Long-Felt
Want.
PANAMA, March THE Star and
Herald says:
Mr., G. p Scriven special commits
sioner of the Columbian worlds fair
delegated to Guatemala, Salvador
Nicaragua and Costa Rico, arrived here
Feb. 20, and sailed hence for his destina-
ton the following day. With one soil
itary exception,s all the Central Ameri-
can states have ports on the Caribbean
which are capable of being made inn
portant commercial centers. The long
felt want of an incentive to this being
done is about to be provided by the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, which
is placing a special line on, to run along
the Central American caribbean coasts,
and to connect with the various railroad
termini at New Orleans.
Very Significant.
LIS Law 10 PlCSllttilG W1bn
significance to Central America, since
her possibilities include her development
as the future fruit, coffee, sugar and
general produce supply of the United
States BY this new line of direct com
munication, the city--and adjacent re-
gions-of Chicago, which is possibly the
largest fruit and coffee consuming CEN
ter of population in the world, will be
brought within five days distance only
from Colon, and really much nearer
than New York and other eastern CEN
ters, to say nothing of more northern
ports But this is only single advan-
tage. The great facilities of transporta-
ton that will be afforded two years
hence will, in themselves, comprise a
very great incentive to the Central
American peoples to seek their fortunes
at the great Pan-American exposition
and for which active preparations will a.,
we opine, be the more heartily entered
upon when it is understood that such
great facilities will be afforded for easy
quick and cheap transportation.
Advantage of the Fair.
This exposition will provide opportu-
mites of international advertisement
and mutual recognition of one another's
productive and consumptive capacities
among the peoples that century of
conferences could not hope to achieve.
There are thousands Of minutia that go
to make up all the difference between
reciprocal interchange of commodities
and international apathy that will there
by be brought to light and subjected to
intelligent discussion. The tobacconist,
the sugar refiner, the weaver, the furni-
ture manufacturer and the tradesman
generally, of North America, will be
brought face to face with a wealth of
raw material of which he now scarcely
dreams. On the other hand the south
erner will find awaiting him a veritable
revelation in the form of manufactures
and mechanical appliances and this the
more so since Chicago is herself one of
the principal mechanical centers of the
Union, and will, therefore, be perfect
exhibition in herself in this regard.
Methods of interchange will be dis
cussed and elaborated, and eventually
this fair will prove the foundation of u
volume Of reciprocal commerce, the pos
sibilities of which are now scarcely sus-
pected by those most interested in its
development.
worthy of Consideration.
These are matters worthy of the most
earnest consideration of the people of
Central America. Their importance
has been realized by the thinkers and
statesmen of North America, and hence
the exposition. 1t now remains for the
various southern governments to lead
their people up to the point of cheer
full and intelligent cooperation. such as
alone can compass the realization of the
dream of those with whom the exposi-
ton originated. 1t must not however,
be forgotten that there are other, and,
in a sense equally important points that
call for attention. Commerce and in
dustry are the backbone and skeleton
of the world, perhaps, but they are not
"all that therein is" the Columbian ex-
position contemplates worlds fair"
in more senses than one. Commerce
and industry will have their due i'm
portance assigned them; but also science
will not be neglected and it is in the
power of more than one Central Amer
lean state to contribute chronological and
archaeological exhibits of the deepest
interest to the outside world. The peo-
pie are urged never to forget for a mo-
ment that what are to them common
place objects, and therefore of no value,
might, if brought to the notice of the
scientific world, be invested with the
deepest interest.