Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-05
LEADING SOUTHERNERS
Express Their Views Upon the Effect of the Atlanta Exposition Upon the South
 and the Country at Large.

Baltimore Md.,. Dec 4.-Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior; Post master-General Wilson; Secretary of the Navy Herbert; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Dr. c. w. Dabney; Hon. John R. Proctor, president of the United States civil service commission; Governor Atkinson of Georgia; Ex-GoVernor. Northen; Mayor King of Atlanta; Presi- dent Collier of the eXposition; Clark. Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitu- tion Editor Richardson of the Journal; General Avery. South American commis- Sioner of the Atlanta exposition, and others contribute to this weeks issue Of the Manufacturers Record their views upon the effect of the Atlanta exposition upon the south and the country at large, and upon the continuation of this good work through. the proposed Baltimore Southern exposition of 1897.
 Secretary Smith points out how the At lanta exposition has attracted the atten- ton of the country, and how still larger exposition at Baltimore would deeply i'm press upon all sections the great oppor- tunities for investment in the south.
 Secretary Herbert says: "The material resources of the south. as shown by tbe Atlanta exposition, are even amazing to a southern mans If Atlanta has been able to do so much. Baltimore, with its 500,O00 people, ought to be able to carry forward the work of southern develop ment through an exposition on still larger scale.'
 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture pr. Dabney says:
 "The cheap lands of the south, where three crops can be raised in one year, offer the finest opportunity opening in the world at the present time for intel lgent and industrious farmers. The po- litical and industrial conditions that have l fhaG nnTA1a io6 ent to immigration, and that have to a certain extent kept other people from go- ing into that country, have passed away, and an immediate invasion of the south is just dawning. The Atlanta exposi- tion, coming as it did during a period of hard times, is for the most part a bril- liant success. If it has failed in any point it is not in securing more general and enthusiastic cooperation on the part of the southern states, and it may not there- fore present the resources of the south with that completeness which is desira- ble and which would have been possible had all the southern states followed the example of Georgia and Alabama, and made the most of this magnificent oppor- tunity to make their riches known to the world.'
 The Baltimore exposition, pr. Dabney thinks, will therefore afford the south a great opportunity to make up whatever may have been lacking in the Atlanta exposition.
 President Proctor of the civil service commission says: "The time is approach ing when the southern states will begin to export iron and manufacture cotton. The exposition at Baltimore will be the best opportunity hitherto afforded for southern exhibits of minerals, because 1t is in such easy reach of the class of men most interested in such things."-
 Gen. l. w. Avery says We are enter ing on a great era, in which the south is at last coming to the front as a mighty factor, and this section will look to the Baltimore exposition to keep up it's evo- lution of material progress. Atlanta has drawn the worlds attention to the souths claims and shown that the United States is developing immeasurable ca pacities for the growth of international trade supremacy, and to Baltimore be- longs the duty of carrying on this su- preme apotheosis of our long depressed section so aff1uent in native wealth."