The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-15
AUGUSTUS BIG SHOW OPEN
Fifty Thousand Spectators View The
INAUGURATION Parade.

Inauguration Parade.
Gov. Northen. Elk Gov. Mcdaniel and
Gen. Clement A. Evans Among the
DISTINGUISHED Georgians in the Line.
The Opening Speech Made by
President Patrick Walsh-Gov.
Northen Delivers a Mastery Ad-
dress.
Augusta. Ga, Nov. 14-For the first
time in the history of Augusta, have the
people Of this city been joined by repre-
sentatives Of over half the states of the
union in the formal opening of the Angus
Ia exposition. On this occasion. how
ever. there is Joined with this enterprise
the Georgia State Fair, under the man
agement of the Georgia State Agricul-
tural Society, the two ombined forming
an exposition that will equal in its scope
ana magnitude any similar enterprise
ever attempted in the history of the
south
To-day 5000 people turned out to wit
ness the grand procession of military,
civic bodies and the fremen OF the city
that paraded the principal streets and
wound up at the exposition building,
which was packed with a hustling. bust
ling crowd of good natured humanity. In
the procession there were Gov. NOrthen.
Of Georgia, Ex-Cov Mcdaniel and Gen.
Clement A Evans, the most probable
future governor now before the people
In the building is the finest agriCul-
tural display Of southern products ever
seen-tfIeeu counties of Georgia and
Il. L. L.. . IL
of the state of South Carolina, partici-
pating. In the industrial, mechanical
and electrical departments. nearly all the
states and eight nations are represented
while among the attractions are many
of the best features from the Midway
Plaisauce at the worlds fair.
THE OPENING SPEECH.
President Patrick Walsh, of the Au-
guSta Exposition Company. delivered the
opening address, after prayer by Rev.
Lansing Burrows. MIR Walsh referred
TO the combined efforts of the Augusta
Exposition and Georgia State Fair, and
pointed with pride TO the products Of the
field, the forest, the workshop and the
factory that were here gathered. The
stock and cattle and poultry and pet
stock exhibits have never been eQualled
in any similar undertaking. In manu-
features, liberal arts and in electricity
messed in the southeast. More than
twenty-five states and eight foreign
countries have contributed to the
excellence Of the Augusta Exposition and
Georgia State Fair. With our abundant
and cheap water power, with our advan-
tages of climate and raw material at first
cost the south is destined to become the
cotton manufacturing center of the world
Duringithe past summer, while millions of
spindles in the east were silent, and
thousands of hands were idle, the mills in
Augusta, and in South Carolina and
Georgia, were spinning cotton and making
money. The worlds fair at Chicago was
the browning success of this age. 1t sur
passed anything of the kind ever held in
the great capitals of Europe
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT FOR CHICAGO.
1t was an ambitious and a daring under
taking for a western city that was a
struggling town on the shore of Lake
Michigan fifty years ago 1t is doubtful
whether any other city in the United
States could have done as well
The White City and the worlds fair
have passed into history and the iudg-
ment of mankind accords to Chicago the
honor and the glory of having achieved
greater renOwn than ever won by Lon
don, Philadelphia or Paris in a like I'M
dertabing. But great as are the worlds
fair, the growth of Chicago and her up
building from the ashes, greater are the
marvels of American intelligence, enter
prise, perseverance and skill. Chicago
has wOrthily won her laurels and other
American cities should profit by her ex-
ample.
Nature has endowed the south with
manifold advantages over the west
1t is our mission to utilize
them Let us invite capital,
skill and labor to develop them. Let the
people of other sections and of other
countries understand that all good men
are welcome, and that life, liberty and
property are the inalienable and the sa-
cred rights of our citizenship. l wish it
TO 90 out that in this great business city
of ours there is no such thing as section
as creed as politics. Inscribed over the
doors of our city and this exposition is
Charity, toleration brotherly love for all
Peace and good will should prevail among
all classes. Harmony should be the
watchword.
GOV. NORTHEN's SPEECH.
Mayor Alexander was the next speaker
and when he concluded introduced Gov.
w. J. Northen, of Georgia. Gov. Nor
then said:
Mr. President: This is an suspicious day,
not for Augusta only. but for Georgia and the
south. Adopting the language of your presi-
dent: IhlS exposition stands IN the same re-
latlon to the states at the south. as did the
Columbian exposition to the nations OF the
civilized world While therefore l con
graduate the management Of the Georgia
state fair ana the management of the Augusta
exposition upon the realization of this hour |
shall not speak Of this gathering of products,
machines implements, wares and manufact-
lures, either as the Georgia state fair or as
the Augusta exposition, or as both. l prefer
TO speak Of il as the exposition of the south
As Chicago, vigorous, heroic and young
was the only city on the continent able under
the conditions to magnify the one so
Augusta, plucky, philosophical and pro
gressive full of new ideas as she is fun OF new
industries is the only city at the south in
these times OF panic and depression able to
illustrate the possibilities and resources of
the other
This exposition of the south is an object
lesson for the diversified industries of her
future.
To-day, Mr. President YOU have brought us
10 the dawn of a new industrial era for our
section. In all the past, the south has been
considered the great agricultural section of
the union. In this industry mainly. our peo-
pie have found their employment and their
wealth. as much, doubtless. from physical
conditions as from choice These physical
conditions have not obtained in other sections
The New England states with only % 900 OH
acres of arabic land, are confined almost eX
clusiyly to manufactures for their main
tenanCe. The middle states. with IS 600 OOl
acres, more enlarged in agricultural area are
deficient in climate and crops that will pay
Tor their cultivation. The western states
with lfsQOD,UuO acres. suffer from the intense
DDL1drO- OF winter. so hat. with them both