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and will Increase It to a half million at least.
This exposition belongs to Iowa as much as
Nebraska, and the same interest should be
taken by our own people as by Nebraskans.
Our legislature should duly consider the
great benefit Iowa will derive from such an
exposition and make an appropriation ac-
cordingly. Any amount of money appro-
priated for an Iowa exhibit will only be an
investment that will bring back large re-
turns. 1t Is one OF the things we cannot
afford TO deal sparingly with.
lie Mars Qa) Daily Sentinel: II there Is
one thing more than another that the people
OF Iowa ought to be interested in It is the
Transmississippi Exposition to be held at
Omaha next summer. 1t Is to be held on the
border of our own state and what is better,
1t Is on the western border, where all OF the
people from Europe and the rich and popu-
louo east will be obliged to traverse Iown's
peerless praries in order to reach the expo
sition, The state of Iowa invites inspection
rather than laudation, for the public is more
deeply impressed by what is seen than by
what is heard. For this reason alone. the
! people OF Iowa can afford to give the
great exposition at Omaha the most earn
est support.
If the fair we're to be held in Des Moincs
or any other Iowa city. the people of this
state would at once start in with great en-
thusiasm to push the exposition. Owing to
the fact that the great army OF investors
and citizens who seek new locations come
from the east, 1t is more to the advantage
Of Iowa to have the exposition held in Omaha
than in an Iowa city, because the visitors
at the exposition will be obliged to travel
over a larger part of Iowa and see more
of 1t than II the fair were held in the CEN
trail or eastern part of Iowa.
In northwest Iowa in particular we ought
to comprehend the benefits of the exposition
early and take action 70 reap as many of
! them MS nOSSibla Wbl1a thp fair will mt
be so large as the Chicago exposition of
1893, 1t is so much nearer to us that its eff
fects will be more strongly felt.
Instead of being obliged to travel 800
miles and pay exorbitant hotel rates on
arriving at their destination as was so often
the case in Chicago, LeMars people can leave
home on the early morning train for Omaha,
put in a day at the exposition and return
home in the evening after supper or they
can stay and attend evening entertainments
and reach home the next morning In time
for business.
The people of Omaha have done a great
work toward making the exposition a sue
cess. They have raised nearly a half million
dollars capital and have begun active oper-
ations in all of the states that are expected
to be tributary to the fair. The states of
the Mississippi valley arc organizing to give
the world its first intelligent exposition of
resources and advantages of the great CEN
trail region.
aN'Niy NpbiAy IL NSNSi ioh" oiSiI W
be represented in some way at Omaha.
Keystone Is. d. Miner: The Omaha papers
are beginning to agitate the matter of the
Transmississippi Exposition to be held in
that city next year. An appropriation will
be made by congress, commissioners are be-
ing appointed by the governors of the states
interested and 1t promises to be a success.
There is no question that the only sure road
! to success is in advertising and the best
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products and resources of the country at
some central point and Offering inducements
to all the people to come and see. This
great inland region Is as yet scarcely set
tied; 1t could easily support ten times the
population it now has, and the way to fill
up the country is to encourage immigration
by every legitimate means and this EXPOSE
ton promises to become the best opportunity
we have had for this purpose. The Black
Hills cannot afford to fail to take every
advantage of this chance to advertise our
resources, and in addition to the commits
sioner for the state at large we should have
one of our own. We had a miserably
meager show at the Worlds fair in '93 and
failed to attract the attention of the world
in exact ratio to the scantiness Of our dis
play, and this is our chance to redeem our
selves.
Sanborn Ga) Pioneer: Our readers, most
OF them, at least, are not aware of the fact
that next year there is to be held at Omaha
one of the greatest interstate and interna-
tional eXpositions ever attempted In this
country. 1t is based on the fact that adver-
Using pays. In years gone by Philadel-
phia, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Francisco,
and Chicago have all been built up, strength
ened in every way and largely increased
In population and the country for hundreds
of miles in all directions greatly enriched
by the eXpositions. These things are simply
advertisements to attract and draw popula-
ton and capital. New Orleans was a dead
city after the war until resurrected by the
great exposition of 1884. In a less degree,
but still powerfully, the other expositions
named enriched and built up not only the
cities where held, but the adjacent country
for hundreds of miles in all directions. The
Omaha exposition is sure to do for the
transmississippi regions what the other eX-
positions did for the regions in which held.
This is not simply an Omaha affair, but a
great, grand interstate and international ex-
position, aided by state and national appro-
priations. The city of Omaha will be greatly
benefited no doubt, but the advantages
gained by the states adjacent to Omaha will
be hundreds of times greater.
The Iowa legislature will appropriate
something, of course, toward this exposition
and we hope the appropriation will be in
keeping with the benefits sure to be derived.