Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — THE NEW EXPOSITION. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW EXPOSITION.

The North, Central, and South American Exposition at New Orleans, Opening Nov--10, 1885. New Orleans correspondence: A mistaken notion prevails that the great Exposition is simply a reopening or continuation of the Cotton Centennial Exposition of last year. The only thing it has in common with that Exposition is that it will be in the same buildings. One of its hading objects is to secure closer relations between the three Americas. For the first time in the history of the new world the representative men from Minnesota to Chili will come together to get acquainted, to inspect and study the natural resources and the products of human labor and ingenuity gathered together for that purpose from the whole hemisphere. The present annual imports of Mexico, Central America, and South America are valued at five hundred millions of dollars, and their exports have about the same value. The United Slates take only 35per cent, of these exports, and furnish only 16 per cent, of the.imports. It is believed that these imports could easily be doubled, and every business man sees the necessity for an earnest effort to deflect the greater portion of this vast an d increasing trade to our ports. The new Expo-ition will be the most important agency in producing this result. The annual value of our manufactures is now six thousand millions of do lars, and. we export only 2 per cent, of this vast product. Mexico, Central America, and South America are naturally our markets. At the new Exposition the natural as well as the manufactured, products of this hemisphere will be displayed in such variety and profusion as will strongly attract the attention of the world. Each State of our country will present a. rich exhibit of its resources and advantages. Visitors from Europe, as well as from American countries, will gladly avail themrelves of this opportunity of seeing and studying the wonderful collections gathered at New Orleans. These collections will not only exhibit the resources of American countries, but will show, as ihey have never been shown before, the marvelous possibilities of tho new world. During the coming fifty years human activity must center largely in these countries, and they have already become the study of the profoundest thinkers and political economists of the age. The new Exposition, which w.ll open November 10, 1885, and close March 31, 1886, furnishes the opportunity for that acquaintance between American countries which can only result in great advantages to all.