The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-06-02
81 A YEAR,
Pan Exposition,

1t would probably not he news
to our readers to remark that we
in the United State do not get
anything approaching to our pro
per share of the trade Of Central
and South America. From our
geographical position we are Ger,
tainIy entitled to the lions share
Of that trade, as well as from our
ability to supply the people OF
Central and South America with
as high a quality Of goods and at
as reasonable price as they can be
supple by Great Britain and Ger
many and France; yet very little
of the trade of these people comes
this way.
Recognition Of the fact that the
small amount of business we do
with these countries to the south
of us is due in great measure't to
the lack of information Oh our
part Of what they need and what we
can supply them with, and to the
lack of information on their part OF
what we need and what they can
supply us INTERROGATION OF
this two.foId fact, we say, has led
the enterprising people Of Buffalo,
n. Y. to entertain the plan OF
opening Pan-American Elk
position next year, in their go
ahead and comfortable city. In
that exposition it is intended that
on the one hand the different
States of the Union 81 al set out
their distinctive products and
manufactures with the view to en-
tightening the various American
nations TO the south of us as to our
resources IN relation to their needs,
and, particularly, as to the figures
at which We could supply them
with such Of our goods as might
suit their fancy or their state; and,
on the other hand, that they shall
have the opportunity of placing
before our people their various
products and manufactures with a
view to their increasing the sales
of them in the United States. And,
of course, another object is that
the Pan. Americans OF the Western
Hemisphere should get better ac-
uuained with each other, and so
ascertain in what way they might
make themselves more profitable
to each other.
There are now two represent
alive Buffalonians here with us
in Louisiana, the Hon. John Il.
Weber, Commissioner General of
the Pan American Exposition, and
the Hon. Chas. +. Bishop, Elk
Mayor of Buffalo. The have come
Ion the errand of seeking to inter.
est Louisiana, through her Generr
al Assembly, in the coming Pan
American Exposition. They will
show that Louisiana is certainly /,
not the least interested of the
States in the increase of our trade I
with countries TO the south of us, /
for much 1t would come via New {
Orleans and add greatly to her
commerce; and therefore they will 5
urge the plea that, for our own i
benefits, the General Assembly of '
that State should make an appro. t
,giation to send and maintain a N
good exhibit of Louisiana products v
IT the Exposition. a
The plan of a Pan American {
Exposition is an excellent one, and b
I ought to have the hearty sup p
'ort of all our people, who would, a
II our opinion, cordially approve b
he General Assembly's giving of S
n appropriation to make the re a
ources of Louisiana more widely p
nown than they are now. We b
ave never advertised the re 81
Durces of our State half enough. m
nd as this will be an opportunity eff
further advertisement we shonld in
lt let it pass unnoticed.-Times. W
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