The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-14
THE SOUTH AND the WORLDS FAIR.

THE SOUTH AND THE WORLDS FAIR.
The importance of the Southern States be-
ing fully represented in the Worlds Fair at
Chicago in 1882 cannot be overestlmated t
is point which should be constantly enforced
upon the attention of the Southern people
until public sentiment IS created am ng
item with reference io this question that viii
lead such appropriations on the pant oil
Southern Legislatures as will insure very
com lee Southern exhibit
For number Of years now the southern
people have been showing great energy IN adj
vertising the different natural advan-e yes of
their section. They have prQca med 20 the
world that the South was unsurpassed III the
extent of its natural resources, and they have
gone 10 much expense to direct to these re-
sources the attention of the North and West.
With such an opportunity presented to them
of making general exhibit as will be fur
nished by the Worlds Far. 1t would be the
height of folly, the very consummat on OF
narrowuess and shortsi shtedness indeed, TO
permit that opportunity t. pass without its
being use / to its lurthost limits
1t will not be sufficient for the Southern
States to present merely respectable APP
pearance at the great fair Their exhibit
should be all that the most liberal appropri-
atoms can make tan exhibit that will COM
pare most favorably in variety, quality and
volume with any that will be found under the
same roof. however wealthy the section from
which it may come or however rich in
natural resources.
This is t the time for the Southern States
to offer restricted means is justification Tor
contracted showing at Chicago in 1892.
The Southern people are in position t. make
an exhibit that will be completely represent
alive in character, and their financial resources
SHOULD if necessary be stretched to insure
such an exhibit
Such an opportunity as the fair will furnish
for the advertisement of the resources of the
South will not arise again in half century.
Not only will several millions of persons visit
the fair from every part of the Northern and
Western States, to which our people must
principally look for capital and valuable immi-
grants but also from every country in Europe.
favorable impression created by an examina-
ton of the Southern exhibits would lead
hundreds of thousands of individuals North
ern, Western and European to turn their eyes
in the direction of the Southern States, either
with view to making investments or per-
manent settlement in these States
If on the other hand, the showing which
the Southern States present is not very strik-
ing in its character, very much of the adyan-
tage which the South has already derived from
that active and liberal advertisement of its
resources which has been going on in the last
few years, will be lost. because the accounts
received of the South will not be confirmed
by its exhibit i'll Chicago. Not only, there
fore, for sake of advantages to be gained, but
also for sake of advantages already won, the
Southern States should make appropriations
for the fair 70 the full extent of their financial
capacity, and even beyond for bread of this
kind cast upon the economic waters will re-
turn in a redoubled quantity
Georgia has already taken the initiative in a
manner that should be initiated by all of the
other States in the South. We hope to see
the majority of these Commonwealth make
even larger appropriations than that which
has been agreed upon by the Empire State of
this part of the republic