The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-03
jamestown Exposition to De-
veIop Mercantile Relations
of United States.
SERVES AS OBJECT LESSON
SHOWING TO THE OTHER MA
TIONS THE WONDERFUL PROG
RESS THAT THIS GREAT RE-
PUBLIC HAS MADE.
Publishers Press.I


jamestown, Va, February e
From time immemorial the welfare
of nations and the expansion of uni
yersal commerce, domestic and for
eign, has been due in a great n1cas-
! ure, to the impelling power OF ma
tional and international worlds fairs.
1t may be we'll to outline briefly the ev-
ident stimulus the jamestown EXPOSE
ton will put in action to increase in
, general way, the foreign trade of the
United States, and particularly that
with Latin American countries, and
tending furthermore to develop the
mercantile relations of The United
States.
In what we have learned to cali our
own western hemisphere, in the pre-
historic times of America. fairs were
held by the native tribes of Mexico,
! Central and South America. with the
exception, on this latter part OF the
continent, of the Caribs Guarani and
Basilei who, due to their migratory
and somewhat nomadic habits, had
not yet passed in the sixteenth GEN.
tury beyond the primitive stages OF
aboriginal barter.
The first American Agricultural fair
was held in Washington in 1904, that
is to say, 103 years go, AMI was re-
peated every six months for n period
of years. Since then the fair has BE-
come a recognized American institu-
ton.
For the purpose of celebrating the
Ter Centennial of the establishment
of the first permanent English Colony
in the northern half of the western
hemisphere, there will be held in
jamestown International Exposition
from April 26 to November 30 OF the
present year. A special invitation
was extended by the exposition man.
agement to the Governments and peo-
pies of Latin America to exhibit their
great natural wealth and manufactur-
ed products.
OF the twenty Latin American re-
publics. fifteen will be represented
either by delegations from their ar
mics and navies, or by cred;table dis
plays of their natural resources, suit
ably housed either in special buildings
they will erect for this purpose in
certain portion of the exposition
grounds, or in separte booths in a
convenient section that has been set
apart to this effect in one of the expo
sition buildings.
In the same manner as former ex-
positions have stimulated the tra'le
relations of the United States with
foreign countries, the jamestown ex-
position-where all the agricultural
commercial and industrial products of
the United States will be conveniently
displayed by practically all the states
of the Federal Union-will serve as an
object lesson not only to the foreign
delegates of the better cultured class
es who will attend the naval and MIL
itary celebration, but to all other alien
visitors, all of whom will surely des-
cribe to their fellow-countrymen the
wonderful progress they have seen
exhibited at Jamestown of the agri-
cultural and other American CONNER
cial commodities and the trade posi-
bilities resulting therefrom.
The Jamestown exposition had the
additional advantage over all former
American worlds fair in the fact
that within given radius it can be
more conveniently reached by a much
larger number Of millions of people
both from the United States and from
abroad.
All these attendant conditions will
undoubtedly be conducive to consider
able expansion of the domestic and
foreign commerce of the United States
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