The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
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 On this page The Advertiser prints an editorial from The leUbils Register wfach we heartily endorse, and upon which few comments win not be axnfs& The efforts made by a sister State to provide fund for an exhfbit ct St LouiA and the failure of those efforts. may be taken as warning to Alabama to avoid un- dertak1ng to raise the, necessary sum by the methods tried in nsKentascay. If such schemes failed there they would likely fan here and valuable time would thus be wasted.
 We repeat what ws have moro than once said that 1t will be little short of e humdliating disgracs If our State Is not repressntcd at the great Exposition. We stil think the Legislature should have made an appropriation, but that is closed incident, so far as the Legislature itself Is concerned. and t Ia now the duty of the people of Alabama to do for themseives. what the Legislature did not see proper to do. If Alabama is not represented there 1t may be the only State that will be absent When the smaller States and Territories like Arigo- na, Indian Territory. as well as nearly all the States of the South have an exhibit at St. Louis and Alabama has none 1t win create an impression that will be hard to live down.
 There ,is not State in the South, Ii indeed there Is one in the Union, that can make finer exhibit than Alabama can. While our State is surpassed by some in certain speciaities none can show a richer CT greater variety of all that is necessary for man or beast than ours. And the capitalization Of these resources is,. after all more the duty of those who win be benefited than of the State. Our yet vast timber resources shoud be put on exhibition by the lumber men and by those who have tinb0 for sale. The iron men should look after that metal. the farmers and vegetable, growers and the fruit growers should be both willing and anxious to show what we have and what we can grow.
 And so of all the other interests and speciaities. If those who are most in- tcaCStOu Ill Ikto tAAucS dAS ub0 saA0 ~nAVSEs the fruit and the vegetables and all the other natural and artificial products of a great State win set themselves earn estly to work they can provide the means to prevent Alabama being disgraced and humiliated. The various Commercial and Industrial bodies of the State should lend their assistance for they have had more experience and are better qualified to carry out tie efforts of others than the latter are. If these various bodies will go to work with a will they can enlist the aid of all classes which will be bene- fitted by an exhibition of our resources. and Alabama and Alabamians will not be humiliated by a vacant space at St. Louis.
 As The Register points out, the time Is short and there Is none to waste. We may not be able to have building of our own, but we yet have time to have an exhibit which will be both creditable and profitable, both to State and people. If 1t is to be done 'ft were we'll it were done quickly" This is time when de- lays are dangerous and when those who feel pride in our State as well as an interest in the States welfare should stir themselves for the good of all.