The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-03-22
THE CENTENNIAL AND CONGRESS
The Inconsistency of the latter and the
Possibilities OF the Former.


Possibilities or the hufmNfs
Memphis CommeIr.a'Appeai
Thohiounlamentod Congress confirm
ed tho general conviction ol ita liltloncss
and inconsistency by reiuainRa small mp
preparation 20 the Tennessee Centennial
Exposition after voting n large one toa
similar exposition TO be held this year IN
Atlanta. difficult 90 determine Just
what was the impelling cause OF this
grossiucousistency, charlottesville dis
elimination between States and cone
munides; this deliberate attempt TO put
q reproach or visit rebuko upon q soyer'
cign State. The fact stands ont, hOwoy-
en-, that Tennessee has been discriminat-
ed against and denied recognition and
cooperation granted O sister State by
thosamc Congress This Unprecedented
action is the more gloringa and outrageous
in view of the fact that the Georgia on
Atlanta Exposition is strictly d mateu
alistic enterprise, while the Tennessee
/ Centennial Exposition is not only matte
REALISTIC, but is 10 commemorate an im-
portaut historic eyentat a time when the
sentiment Of patriotism needs the stim-
illus of such tributes aud celebrations
/ In the one instance, that of strictly bus
mess enterprise i'm the interest of
State and section, Congress appropriated
/ $4,000 without conditions: and i'm the
other, both a patriotic and business en-
terprise Ina the interest of q State and
section, refused $4,000, after loading
it with conditions that clearly showed %
special hostility to the State from first
to last. The gross partially displayed
amounts TO q crime against patriotism
and an insult to Tennessee.
We say this without indorsing the
principle involved i'm such appropria-
tions as that made Georgia and refused
Tennessee. In oneview Of the COnstitu-
/ tion and publcpolicy Congress stretches
its power and invites criticism when 1t
makes such appropriations. But in this
instance there is % degree Of layoritism
4 on the part Of the National Congress that
is rather TO the point of meanness and
unjust TO the extent Of both crime and
insult.
What viii Tennessee do aboutit? In
our opinion, the people of the Volunteer
. State--the State Of presidents, states
{ men, soldiers and heroes-will resent
the discrimination and insult byrallyina
! around the centennial enterprise in mum
bers irresistible. The sentiment Of pa
icpride iindled by this injustice vii
sweep the State. Tennessee will de
1 monstrate herability to promote her owl
interest unaided. She will demonstrate
her worthiRess of a great past by cele
: brating the browning event of a long ant
heroic struggle to statehood properly
? splendidly and within her own resources
She will vindicate her superb statehoo
. by an exposition of resources and posi-
{ bilities unequaled, and rebuke a narrol
/ and fractional Congress dominated b
q small men with selfish ideas that s6ugh
by discrimination against her to put
shame upon her before the world.
But happily the Fifty third Congress
is dead and the Tennessee Centennia
+ Exposition lives,
+ Now let the general assembly, when
reassembles in April, rise to the heigh
J. of the occasion, and its members, as rel
resentatiyes of a proud and self-reliar
people with great past and unequaIe
resources, make an appropriation f
+ Tennessee's Exposition in celebration {
|; the chief event in her history worthy
= the State and adequate for success,
"a will he great OpDOrtunitv. 1t is fu
Is of certainties aud possibilities to ever
interest in the State tt will organic
progress and open up the ways Of pro
/ perity. 1t must succeed, and we hay
$ too much faith IN Tennessee manhoc
1t and womanhood, in Tennessee INTEL
gence and nerve, in the pride and patti
J. otism of our people and their represet
! tatives in the general assembly to doul
- that it will succeed.