The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-22
ATLANTA, Ca, October 81, 1885.
COTTON STATES AND
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

ATLANTA, Ga, October II, 1895.
To the People of the United States: The I'M
dersigned jurors and members OF the highest
board of award having visited the principal
departments OF the Atlanta Exposition and
having had the advantage OF guidance and
suggestions from the most qualified experts,
think it important to communicate our i'm
pressions to the public throughout the coun-
try by the agency of the newspaper press, in
advance of such reports as may be hereafter
made to the constituted authorities
We desire to call attention to the educational
value of the Atlanta Exposition, its important
relations to industry and its manifold indica-
tons OF the progress of the useful and liberal
arts. But in this brief paper we can only in
dicate few OF the most significant character
istics. The exhibits of the National Govern
ment constitute a unique, complete and in
structive illustration of its wise and benefcen Mt
functions. With building of moderate size
examples are given of the work of the Federal
Government in its relations to craftsmanship,
international intercourse, the administration
OF justice, the promotion of commerce-domes-
tic and foreign-the postal service and
the control of the National finances
the arts of National defense on land and
sea; the development of agriculture, forestry,
mines and mineral wealth, fisheries and fish
culture; the protection and promotion of COM
merce by surveys of the coast, the lakes the
rivers ana the mountains; the study of the
climate and the forecasting of the weather;
the maintenance OF lighthouses and life-saying
stations; the education and civilization OF
Indians; the encouragement of invention.
literature and the fine arts, by protecting the
rights OF the inventor, the writer and the
artist; the advancement and diffusion of
knowledge through the agency of the Smith
sonian Institution, the National Museum: the
manifold services OF the Bureau of Educa,ion
and the collection of great Libraries; the study
OF the diseases of the human race and also o.
plants and animals; and the protection of life
by cautlonary and remedial agencies, the pre-
vention of epidemics, and the regulation of
the food supply; these all, exhibited in a COM
pact form, bring before the people the noblest
offices of a strong, conservative, wel-organized
government, and are the best exhibits of the
kind that ever have been made
There are many admirable signs of inter-
state cooperation and social intercourse. The
visits of the Presidentand Vice-President of the
United States, of the Governors of many dis
slant States (often attended by large escorts of
our fellow-citizens), the assemblies OF bankers.
engineers, teachers, women of religious and
philanthropic associations and of patriotic So
cieties, the recognition OF the African, and es-
pecially the meeting of many thousands of SOL
diers in friendly intercourse-the blue and the
gray homeward bound from Chickamauga-
illustrate the good will and fraternity now
prevalent among the citizens of our united re-
public and the re-estaolishment of not ONLY
peace but of sympathy among those who have
been widely separated.
In addition to the buildings OF the cotton
States those constructed by New York Penn
sylyania, Massachusetts and Illinois and that
OF California with its contents afford add.
tlonal evidences of this friendly relationShi p.