Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-18
COMMENCE AT ONCE.
Farmer Wallace Sounds q Note OF
Warming to the People of the
State,
The Agricultural Products for the
Worlds Fair Must be Planted
Soon,
And Everybody Should Plan to
Raise Something for the
Fair.


4t III.
North Dakota at the Worlds Exposition.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: As the time is zeal
Tor a general movement throughout the
state of North Dakota to prepare an
exhibit at the Worlds Columbian OK
position that will be creditable and bene-
fcial to the state, te"the occasion, and to
those who are charged with conducting
the exposition, it behooves every citizen
OF the state to do all in his OF her power
to encourage and assist in the work.
We cannot hesitate, we cannot retrace
our steps. Our cap has been thrown
into the ring, the appropriation has been
made, officers selected, space allotted,
building contracted for, the movement
has gone forth that North Dakota "will
be in it." The first question is, how will
the exhibit be formed and conducted to
be most satisfactory to all interested?
The second is, how can it be made most
beneficial to North Dakota as a state,
and to her citizens in general? In con-
wasting these two questions, let us first
look into the matter from a national
stand point, the main spring and object
of the exposition, its vast magnitude in
arrangements, grandeur IN design and
immense expenditure of money and
labor. It is not a three day "county
fair it is not a six day 'state falr;" it
is not a thirty day municipal
sxpoBition;" it is not an "ice
palace or 'corn palace" or carnival.
1t is not the REPETITION OF the
National Centennial Of 1876" or the
"three American exposition of 1885," It
is more than all these combined. It will
embrace 400 years of time, and all the
progress in every line and channel in
which the people Of the whole earth have
moved and wrought. In the aggregate
it will be 80 extensive and far reaching,
so wonderful and marvellous that North
Dakota with her greatest efforts in ex.
pense, in skill, in energy, taste, in good
Judgment, in preparation, management
and accomplishment will be as but a
"'drop in the ocean,"
This statement is not made to dis
hearten or back-cap the movement, it is
to place the subject before the citizens
OF this very young state. This state,
with but one chief industry on which all
other miner industries depend, and on
which its citizens must rely for all that
they seek in worldly affairs within her
borders. That corner stone is agricul-
ture in it's several branches natural to it's
location on the surface of the earth. We
will have but n pivotal display,sto
make-that will be cereal, vegetable,
horticultural and floral; the product
from cultivation of the soil; the natural
timber, grass, fruits and flowers; the
domestic and wild animal and fowls; all
other parts Of the display that North d.
kota will make, will be dependent on
and riders of the above; and all efforts
should be continued to make that
foundation display an indisputable evil
dence that, it is deep enough, broad
enough, permanent enough to build
thereon a populous and prosperous COM
m~onwealth, and all that goes with it.
If the citizens of North Dakota intend
to place and maintain an exhibit of ma
tural products in the Columbian Exposi.
ton during the year 1898 THEY MUST
SOW THE SEED Now-this month, March,
1892-it cannot be done in 1893. The
! Columbian Exposition will be thrown
open to the world in May of that year,
and We must have u display there,
complete and perfect in all particulars, il
we wish to reap the advantages that ma
turally flow from such ar exhibition, and
acquit ourselves with credit. Begin
now, is the word. Let each county and
city form auxiliary committees to the
state commissioners; let each farmer
gardener, florist, and all in any way
connected with or interested in the IA
tural native growth or product of the
soil, set his or her mind on this work
select something that you will prepare
to raise, to watch over, to gather in sea-
son, to preserve in q proper manner, to
pack with great care and contribute to
the state exhibit through the commits.
sioners. g..
The commissioners cannot make this
display without your help. It is for you,
and it will be through you it will prove
q success or failure.
The $4,000 appropriated cannot and
will not make a display of agricultural
products. By this money a place may
be secured for and proper care taken OF
an exhibit, but the specimens must come
from the farm, ranch, garden and forest,
Ssss In the harvest time the commissioners
cannot and will not rush out into grain
fields and garden patches to gather, pull
clean, cure, save and pack the products
OF this state. They depend on the PEG.
pie to do this, and without the people