Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-02


could be made at the Columbian exposition
| at Chicago in 1898. The results OF our IL
| veStigationS have been utterly Giscourag-
! ing. The conditions as we found them re-
| veal the fact that unless prompt and reason
| able measures are at once adopted and Wig
Orously pushed to conclusion there will be
| no Texas state exhibit at Chicago. In the
hopes of bringing order out of chaos the
| association of exhibitors to the Worlds
| fair has been organized. The information
| obtained from our Investigations is the fol-
| lowing: Texas is barred out of the Worlds
| fair at Chicago.
The rulings of the Columbian exposition
commission at Chicago are, in substance. to
| the effect that no collective exhibit county
or state, shall be permitted within any of
the buildings erected by said commission,
but that each article sent for exhibition
shall be assigned in certain places within
fourteen different buildings by the manage
ment al Chicago, and further, that nothing
shall be sent to said exposition without the
approval of an expert, who is to be sent
from Chicago to Texas to select or reject
from the material gathered there whatever
may suit his fancy. Under the same rul-
ings 4 bushel of wheat from Texas is to
be placed with the wheat from every state
in the Union. The fruit will go into an
other building on the other side of $50
acre lot. The timber specimens go to an
other building, and the minerals somewhere
else.
A county that gets together complete
exhibit at considerable expense will run the
risk of having nine-tenths of it's display
rejected and what of the remainder reaches
Chicago will be scattered in dozen build
ings. The identity of the state and the
county will thus be utterly wiped out.
Under the same rulings the state Of
Texas is permitted to erect a building at its
own cost, but such building must be built
under plans and specifications to be ac-
cepted by the Columbian exposition man.
agement. Said buildings shall be used
principally for the entertainment of guests
a sort of a reception hall for men who are
good at making speeches. Under certain
rules and regulations natural resources
may therein be exhibited.
In the Queens English, as we understand
it, the words natural resources mean-if
they mean anything: Products produced
by nature, and by this ruling, all products
of the hand of man are barred out of
building to be erected by Texans at their
own expense 1t is clear then that no col
lective exhibit of Texas products will be
permitted, even if Texans invest their hard
earned dollars in 100000 building placed
on land to which they have no title.
An equally odious ruling is that no adver-
Using matter will be permitted to be dis
tributed within the buildings or upon the
grounds of the Columbian exposition. No
town, county, or state itself, can hand out to
an inquiring homeSeeker Il pamphlet set
ting forth the advantages of Texas.
We deplore for the sake of harmony the
necessity of having to oppose these rulings.
If we understand the will of the people of
Texas, and we think we do, Texas wants
the most complete and best exhibit at the
Columbian exposition. When q stranger
comes to said exposition we want him TO
see all of Texas in one place and our wish
is that every county that exhibits shall
have full benefit of its expense and labor,
the whole aggregation of county, railway
and private exhibits to form a display of
the state of Texas.
We go to Chicago to show the people of
the world what Texas can produce, but
those counties that provide exhibits and the
means to bring them there shall receive full
credit therefor. and we proclaim it that
under no condition will we permit an ex-
pert from Chicago or any other man to
either select or reject any part of the eX-
hiblt collected by this association. Neither
will we permit any county exhibits to be
torn apart or scattered over $50 acres of
ground. Whatever exhibit material is
gathered under the auspices of this asSocia-
ton must go in solid as the Texas exhibit,
the only division allowed being that each
county, district or association shall exhibit
in its own name, and all its exhibits shall be
arranged together and in one place. If the
state of Texas goes to the Columbian expo
sition, it is plain to every sensible man that
ii such towns and counties of Texas are not
to be permitted to distribute their advertis-
ing matter at the Columbian exposition,
such towns and counties have no business
at Chicago in 1893.
In this address to you, our fellow-citi-
zens, we confine ourselves to indisputable
facts. We have no desire to make war on
any one, but we cannot exhibit at Chicago
und er the present rulings, and most GER
tainly will not do so unless these rules are
repealed. We shall make every effort 20
have at Dallas in 1892 the most complete
array of county exhibits ever seen in Texas
and we now have in our possession the ex-
hibits of fifteen counties, costing at least
S25 600.
Forty-fve counties have opledged them
selves through their representatives to
have displays in Dallas in the fall OF 1892.
These displays will be stored IN Dallas in
the hope that the Columbian exposition
management will by that time reconsider
their rules. Delegates from Kansas New
Mexico and Colorado who have taken part
in our meetings will on their return home
call the attention of their boards Of trade
and exhibitors to these manifestly unjust
rulings.
The Texas Worlds Fair association
We have no desire to criticise this amiable
body of ladies and gentlemen. We find
that after six months of labor the ''thun-
dering mountain has not even produced
mouse" According to their state
ment to this association there
IS not dollar available in their
treasury for the purpose of erecting a
100000 entertainment hall at Chicago or
the purchase of an ear of corn for the great
Texas exhibit. The Texas Worlds Fair
association proposes to raise 100000 for
the state building which, under the ruling
of the exposition management, may be used
for displaying natural products, but not
the handiwork of man, and 500, 600 for an
exhibit. ]
For this purpose they permit each man,
woman and child in Texas to pay to said |
association the sum of Is cents, for which |
they are to receive stock in the association |
AS the man and woman do not seem to be |
running over each other to secure this stock, |
the children of Texas are permitted to in |
vest their nickels and dimes. Under the |
rulings Of the Texas Worlds fair associa- |
ton no county that does not pay its pro rata |
shall be permitted to make display at |
Chicago. Under the rulings of the exposi- |
ton management, no county could make a |
display If it paid for the entire /
building. We leave the people to draw |
their own conclusions. The Texas associa-
ton of exhibitors has no stock to sell. We |
ask no one to pay our association a dollar, |
nor do we ask your children 10 give US their |
nickels and dimes. We are plain citizens of |
Texas, associated for the purpose of making
a creditable display, such as becomes great |
state like. ours. We want to show all of |
Texas in one place, but we do not want to
pay $500, 900 for the privilege