The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-01-20
CITIES CONTENDTNG
FOR EXPOSITION
To Celebrate Completion Of
Panama Canal.
Our Exports to China in Last
Five Years Have Fallen
off Greatly.

Washington, d. C., Jan. 17.--Inter-
national Exposition boomers for the
celebration of the completion of the
Panama Canal are at work in Wash
tngcon- San Francisco ard New Or
leans are thu contsnding cities. The
capital of the United States. where
the exposition should readily be held.
Is not saying much. San Francisco
is flourishing seventeen million dol
lars as her claim, while New Orleans
with ten millions insists that this
amount will go farther owing to the
proximity of that city to the rest
of the world, than will seventeen
million on the Pacific slope. An ad-
vocate for New Orleans puts it that
Congress will be responsible in say
ing which city is most accessible to
all the people of the United States,
claiming that New Orleans is two
thousand miles, closer to the center
Of population and two thousand miles
nearer to Panama than San Fran
cisco and that the latter city is more
than three thousand miles farther
from the principal nations which are
likely to send exhibits. 1t is claim
ed that the center of population of
the United States is near Cincinnati
and five hundred miles from New Or
leans, while San Francisco is two
thousand five hundred miles from
this center. Within mine hundred
miles OF Now Orleans, it is said,
there are seventy CITIES with COM
btnied population of twenty millions.
while Within nine hundred miles of
San Francisco are only eight cities
and their combined population is
one million. With Washington as "a
starting point, it is said that it taxi
as four days to reach San Francisco
and only little more than one day
to reach New Orleans, while the cost
Including sleeping berth to San Fran
cisco is 1913, and to New Orleans 1913
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are important but apply with still
greater force to the selection of Wash
LngtOn, which is closer to the popu-
Iation of the United States and to
the world than either New Orleans
DR. San Francisco. TO those who have
followed the social industrial and
political tendencies of the Pacific
slope for the last five years a Sc
.orus objection to holding an inter
national exposition in San Francisco
IS that that city is rantankerously OPP
posed to the Japanese, Chinese and
Sther Orientals who necessarily make
such a large part of every inter
exposition and that, should
he exposition be held there, there
would be perpetual danger of artifi-
'ial earthquakes more serious i'm
Iheir ultimate efforts than the catas-
rophe which destroyed San Francisco
! few years ago.
Statistics show that our exports 10
>hina have declined from fifty-eight
Millions five years ago to fifteen
md one-half millions in 1910. The
'hinaman is frequently referred TO as
N enigmatical creature, but those
Who have studied him in his own hab-
BIS realize that there is a great deal
4 human nature in him and that
70 has abundant shrewd common
ense. The Chinaman is not first
lass fighting man, but he is not un-
esentful of wrong. He had been OUT
ageously treated in this country and
specially ON the Pacific coast and
rganized into unions as a European
rmy is into regiments. the word has
one forth 30 boycott American wares.
is as nothing to the average China
IAN or TO the Chinaman much above
lie average. that this country remit
nd some millions of the Boxer In-
.mnity. That was state affair. and
10 average Chinaman knows Moth
ls OF patriotism because the idea
totally non-existent in THE Celestial
ingdom.