The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-05-21

= VIA customs are dying out, and the new era
6 dawning on the world. As feudalism, king
y craft, .bigotry, and unskilled labor, are becon
J ing obsolete in Europe, SO in America the spir
S of 'told fogyism' is fast losing ground and it
S mastery Inactivity is in danger of leaving it
e advocates in the lurch. We have all to be ii
e and doing, or consent to be swept away by tn
j., progress ofthought and invention, the appli
n anees of steam and machinery, the powers Q
: the press and the popularizing ofrepublican in
s situations, are the causes of the change. Thi
e transition age has its sorrows, dangers, and per
/ plexities to every human being. The ancien
! land marks are giving way beneath our feet
: and many ofus know not whittier we are beins
borne. Political economists have vainly sough
: to show that the condition of the poor in Eu
. rope is better than it was in past times; and i
, can hardly be denied that the condition of the
at this time, much better than that of the slaves
at the south. The startling fact that crime,
poverty and suffering have been largely increas-
ed during the last half century cannot be deni-
ed. The extremes of wealth and want were
never so glazing, and society was neyerso in
secure. Why this is SO, can be told in a breath.
Formerly, the employer and the employee made
amutual contract now the capitalist, with the
potent agent, machinery, at his command, ex-
torts from the poor workman as much work as
he chooses for the meanest plttance. 'sRebel
and starve,'' is the imperial mandate; ''there
are thousands of others pinching with want,
clamoring to receive the terms offered, and thus
be enabled to obtain food for their furnishing
children" While machinery is doing the work
of hundreds of millions of men, and the work
man has but poverty as his companion, it were
better for him in Europe that he was beneath
its green sod, than that he should think to save
himself by manual labor alone. The hands are
poor iynoble things compared with the brain,
and the brain must be used in self-preserva-
ton. Amid the many theories ofthe day there
rises one of vast significance, called co0pera-
ton. 1t is the jewel hidden among the mass of
obscurity, absurdity and utopian theories. All
government is the result of cooperation: but
for it no laws could be formed and no commu
mites exist. Cooperation has planned and con-
structed railroads, and by its aid, in few short
months, we could have the locomotive running
twice a day from the banks of Red River to the
Mississippi, affording at all seasons sure and
speedy conveyance to market for our great sta
pie, to say nothing of vastly increasing the
value of our lands. The misfortune is that its
spirit has not progressed SO rapidly as the age
demanded. The necessities of the many re-
lure that its powers should be better under
stood. AT present the many suffer, that the
ew may attempt to enjoy life. 1.-THE few sue
'eeded in their attempt, there might be some
hing said in its behalf; but as they generally
all, the baneful effects of the system are rea-
lily admitted by all. Cooperation would ena-
Die every intelligent worker to reap the fruits of
lis labor, and to be surrounded BY good cir
'umstances. The precarious position of the
aborng classes, with its attendant cares and
anxiety, would be ameliorated; the cause of
morality would be served, and the general pros
oeriy of the world would be vastly increased
The cause of trade anguishing, is that there arc
az more producers. than consumers of wealth.
Cooperation would cause vast manufactures to
pring up and flourish in our southern States,
md great cities to arise that would equal those
If the north, while they would be free from the
ices and corruption that demoralise northern
titles. Cooperation would do much to conserve
be Union, to tighten the bands with which it is
'ound, and preserve it unsullied, and to fully
[eyelop the vastsindust1ial and mineral re- !
ources of our country; but in this cage of pro-
;ress" people think only of their own personal |
interests, and we can only patiently "wait for !
he wagon" that is to bring the good tines :
o long expected. ..4....... {
The Daily Citizen, spirited paper, publish !
d at Chicago, gives us some account of those
" whom the people of that fourshing city are
low ruled, from which we CLEAN the following ,
list of individuals holding public Office there
lnder the State, city and federal governments:
Thomas Hayne, United States district attor-
ey-was Van Buren, elector in 1949, and
prominent member Of the Buffalo freeso de-
nocratic convention Of that year. Appointed
0 office, and retainedin init, by president Pierce
Philip Comfy, United States collector and sub I
treasurer. s
Charles O. Conner, public administrator. /
Michael Gleason, county treasurer. a
d. Mckray, prosecuting attorney. ...-. f
?. A. Hayne, clerk recorders court. Y
Owen McCarty, city collector. ~
James M. Donuelly, city marshal c
Owen Dougherty, street commissioner. c
Charles Malley, Thomas Peudergast, Patk n
lamb, Michael MCGUIRE James O'Donoghoe 7
nd John Dunlap, justices of the peace H.. /
David Walsh, keeper Of the city prison. s
The Citizen asserts that every person named b
1 the above LISTS native of Ireland, and three a
them but recently naturalised - 81. ., f