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THE GREEK THEATRE
Why San Francisco Will Get the Exposition
REASON NO. 6.
The West is entitled to the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition in 1915.
The West has never held an international exposition.
There have been four in this country: The first at Phila-
delphia, on the Atlantic seaboard, in 1876; the second, on the
MIŠSISSIPPI, at New Orleans, in 1884; the third, in the
MISSISSIPPI Valley region, at Chicago, in 1893; the fourth.
at St. Louis, on the MISSISSIPPI, in 1904.
large Government aid..
But looking at New Orleans' record, what do we find?
1884 New Orleans gave a Cotton Exhibition, an International
Fair, and requested Congress to instruct the President to
invite the nations of the world to exhibit.
absolute failure.
of the principal or a cent of the interest.
And on top of that borrow she had to appeal to the
Federal Government for $375,000 more to buy the medals to
be given foreign exhibitors for prizes.
never been repaid by New Orleans, nor has any of the
interest been paid, yet New Orleans asks Congress to give
her another trial.
Now give the Pacific Coast a chance where they do not
need a dollar of the Government's money.
All received
In
The Fair was an
New Orleans borrowed $1,000,000 from the
This $375,000 has
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