The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-10-29
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THINK THIS OVER.
4 Vote Against the Exposition Tax is
Vote in Favor of Locating the Big
Show at San FranciscO-What
the Fair win Mean to
This State.


This State,
AS the time approaches when the peo-
PIE OF louisiana are to decide by their
votes whether they would have congress-
locate the proposed Panama Exposition
at New Orleans or San Francisco. il he
hooves our citizens to reflect, while there
IS time to do so, upon their duty in this
important crisis. A vote against the two
exposition amendments is equivalent to
vote in favor of locating the exposition
at San Francisco, and the location of the
exposition in the California city means
the building up of San Francisco and the
development of California.
The San Francisco newspapers under
stand this thoroughly, hence they are
devoting entire columns to arguments pi,-
turing forth what the exposition would
mean to the Pacific coast, should it be
located in that city. They realize the in
ealculable benefits that would come TO
California in the way of developing her
agricultural, timber and mineral resources
by FIVE years of constant advertisement
IN which the section adjacent to the expo-
sition city would be kept constantly in the
eyes OF the world; hence, huge sums of
money are being spent by San Francisco
IN the effort to influence sentiment in the
east and middle west in her favor.
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Do the people of Louisiana realize what
a disaster it would be to the state and to
the entire Mississippi valley to defeat the
exposition amendments at the polls on
election day? The opportunity to secure
this exposition is the greatest one that
has come our way since the privileges and
the dignity of statehood were conferred
upon Louisiana nearly one hundred years
ago. TO the country voters the cost of
getting the exposition will be ridiculously
small TO the majority the tax being less
than the price of a dozen eggs annually
for ten years.
For that pitiful sum they can get the
exposition, and with it development
such as has never before been witnessed
IN the south. Even the discussion of New
orleans as the seat of the exposition has
already turned large share of public at
tention this way and capitalists are study
ing our resources and investing their
money in them as never before. The
rapid destruction of our great pine forests
emphasizes the necessity of immigration
to put the denuded lands under cultivation.
and thereby to prevent fearful deprecia-
ton Of values when the lumber mills, hav-
ing exhausted their sources of supply.
shall close down, and the population de-
pendent upon them shall move away.
We need more western farmers like
those who followed Gary in the wake of
the exposition of 1884, to help US build
schools and construct good roads; we
need capitalists to establish industries in
cur towns, TO provide markets for our raw
products, to maintain weekly cash pay
rolls, to build interurban railroads, to put
money into circulation and to open opper
tunities for the sons and daughters of the
farmers of the state. We need drainage
and transportation canals to make pro-
ductiye the finest lands on earth, and to
enable their products to reach the markets
Of the world cheaply and with quick dis
patch.
Shall we vote on Nov. 8 to carry all
these things to California, or shall we get
them for louisiana Every voter has
responsibility in this matter, and he can
not shirk it or fail to meet it without
bringing disaster upon himself.