The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-21
THE sourn's GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

One Which 1t Cannot Afford to Lose-The
Worlds Fair.
From the Atlanta Constitution
Major Il. ii. Blacknall has recently
returned from Chicago, where he spent
several weeks. He enjoyed exception
ally fine opportunities for getting def
mite information touching the scope and
magnitude OF the Worlds Fair, and he
is brimful of enthusiasm on the su beet
Major Blacknall is sagacious, conser-
vative and eminently practical gentle
man, and his opinions always carry
weight with then.
Il feel" said Major Blacknall, THAT
l will be abundantly sustained by the
facts when ! assert that never before in
this country's history has so grand an
opportunity been offered our people to
demons trate to the entire world our
gre stness, to show in a most attractive
and lavish way our wonderful wealth
and untold resources. We cannot az
ford to lose this golden opportunity,
cannot aft 1rd TO let il slip unuti,zed.
To make the coming exposition tho un-
precedented success it promises to be,
both as an educational exhibit which
will be an excellent schooling to the
masses, especially those of the younger
generation, and as a financial success,
our earnest work and cheerful Corpora
ton must be enlisted in its behalf 1t
will ba the greatest advertisement the
United States ever made, as all the PEG.
pie OF the world will there see us as we
are.
They will see what we have achieved
in all the lines OF human endeavor
Before them will be spread the products
OF our matchiess country, and the vari-
ETY., attrac tiveness and immensity of our
offering will excite the wonder of all
Christendom. Visitors will marvel at
the magnitude of the display and will
acknowledge that the half has not yet
been told them. And thousands of i'm mi.
grants will be- drawn to US. In this
alone tho exposition will be productive
OF vast good il will be worth tens of
millions to this country"
do you think, Major" the reporter
asked, that the Worlds Fair will ben
eft all sections of the Union? Will the
South derive any substantial benefit
from it?'
Tho question can be answered easily
Unquestionably the entire country will
be benefited, and our own favored sec
tion will come in for her share of the
iiuiVo' WY ouOulu HOG CQ0 WnOlo
countryside North, the South. the
East and the West-why should not all
bend their energies and give an hon
est, hearty cooperation and com bine
their forces to insure the grand success
1t should be our pride to secure? |
might say if there is any particular ad-
vantage to accrue to any section of the
country that the South will get it. With
our untold wealth, our marvellous un-
developed resources, rich mineral de-
posits, fertile agricultural lands, virgin
forests, bold streams and untitled
water power-with all these to offer
to those who settle amongst us is it not
reasonable to expect that the South
Will attract the attention OF the
world and will draw tho intelligent
immigrants by the thousand?
mo othor section Of tho union can com
plete with us in natural advantages.
Our climate is unmatched. Health
turks in every zephyr that is waited from
the fountains to the Atlantic or from
the gulf to the plains. Our rivers teem
with fish and many streams are rich
with phosphate deposits. Limitless
quantities and wonderful varieties lie in
the bosom OF the earth. Forests Of the
finest timber lie untouched But why
dilate on the greatness of the South?
We have the greatest country on the
face of the earth. and it behooves us to
Let tho world know it, The Worlds
Fair will afford us tho best opportunity
ever presented and we ought to seize it
with avidity."
DO you regard Chicago as the best
location for the tsir?"
Beyond doubt. When the project
was conceived tho first question was,
Wnere shall it he held? Everyone natur-
ally locke d to New York, but the eye.
Of some we're turned to Washington, ):
Louis and few other cities. Money
talk'd, however, and when it was pu,
ID '-st Chicago stopped forward and
won The pr.zs. Tia: auIactous, enter.
.it..r Il.