The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-09-19


temp. at the sight Of healthy who does nothing
Tut rse yankees and foreigners for doing the very
labor which he himself should accomplish. Leaving
the fine Of our people, achieved in the late war; to
the curc praise Of future historians and romanccrs
i. betooves Us Of to-day to gather and apply the
yere yet wholesome lessons which The result of the
var fDrces upon US We thrice dclcated-doubly
tonqbered-were sit down and content ourselves
sith ursing the victor soacng ourselves with idle
Hopes of an intervening Providence. God helps
taosewhe help themselves, and makes the sea calm
againto the shipwrecked sailor who prudently saves
all he can from the wreck
The SOUTH in public conventions acknowledging
her defeat with manly spirit that does her honor has
pledged renewed eay the Constitution Of the Union.
With something of the spirit of that noble Roman Of
whom i was said that lie was greatest in defeat"
sle his borne her disasters with calm and phosophc
spirit Ay, more, she has begun now to do what She
SHOULD have done years ago-she has begun to I'M
PROVE, build up and manufacture The mania for
raoreand and nggers IS being cast out for the
riorehealthful spirit Of farm improvement and the
desire to invest in oint-soci manufactures. \ score
Of cotton factories are in course Of erection IN
Georgia and Alablna-a large and on the jointstock
rqcpe and the spirit that guides and directs these
entcrrfses is destined difuse itself wherever there
is waterfall enough to turn miIl-wlce. Let but the
two three millions heretofore annually spent at the
north BY pleaSure-scckcrs be invested in home manu-
f,ctu{es, aud shall hear groans Of distress
from the cotton lords Of New England 1t is not too
rlucI to say that there is water power enough il
Georgia alone to manufacture every pound Of cotton
that Dan be grown in the south. Not a State in the
SOUTH either, but can yield cxhaustlcss supplies of
coal, iron, petroleum, copper, lead, s.. II We let
hcsenyitiGg fields Of enterprise and wcalt lie faow
We need. not curse the yankees Tor getting rich
landacturcs-lge have an equal chance, albeit later
start,
1t lis time our people clearing their minds of
clGt It is time they were getting rid of prcudices
Which, are not only foolish, but absolutely pernicons
II Il time they beginning to that every man
Who settles among and improves land or carries on
useiu arts only useful citizen but that lis
l4Jor3 indirectly tend to enhance the value Of all
property contiguous to him Is plantation, isolated
and surrounded all sides by uuimproyed land, as
valuable as one surrounded all sides by well-cut-
vateG farms? Is an isolated town dwelling as valua-
Tie as the same would be with an elegant structure
Upon every adjoining lot? And then Of the useful
It is proposition selfeviden to require an
ARGUMENT that one trade begets another and being
correativcy necessary, the increase Of one begets
prosperity to another We have foundry" here
yet 1 few days ago some enteprising yankee bought
several thousand pounds Of old iron and shipped it off
to 6eremanufactured into thousand and one useful
art.clrs Nobody but yankee would pick up such
cid iron" said our informant, who appeared think
the transaction a damaging to yankee character
But Jock at it-and this is buta specimen brick; :"
this same iron pays freight up the river on yankee
boat J; il is re-manufactured by yankee workmen it
pays profit to the whoest lie merchant Of St. Louis
Cincinnati; it pays freight yankee boat down the
river igain and, in the shape Of stoves hoow-ware,
mill gearing, etc. our people buy back the old iron at
an enhanced value Of from 100 to Coz per cent.
Where does the laugh in aud at whose expense
Ihou#ands Of pounds Of paper rags worth four cents
per pound, could be picked Up il this ana every
others parish Of Louisiana by enterprisng yam
kee, taken up the river and made into paper, and then
brought back and sold to at FROM 20 to so cents
per pound. Or, had we few people with some of
the edergy Of the dcspised Yankee these rags could
be manufactured at large profit within mile of
Shreveport.
Z Before the war The southern people were paying
the nbrth millions perannum for insurance With
their aid the Hartford and New York companies
we're last becoming plethoric with weath The 1Etna
broke in 1897, yet owns capital of nearly four
millions, and it is only SIMPLE Of companies which
tile q nth has helped to aurterous importance 1t i
time his at end. Insure at home in Louisiana
lin fae Southwestern VI l. Co. of Shreveport, if
possi9e
In word, let country friends improve their
home4teads remembering that every dollar iudicousy
spent i'm Improvements makes their places worth dol
lar MORE Count little on freedmen-on yourselves a
good deal, and don't disappoint yourselves either by
ackadaisical performance II must be mainly by the
hands which the soil, that the genius of the
earth is to be invoked. Relying on freedmen and la
ling about yourselves, is to lean up)a broken reed
a1d inviting German aborers in is only inviting pros
pictiy3 purchasers for your fair acres. 1t be-
hhoye every man to set a noble example Of industry
and ID begin to practice the severest lessons Of Poor,
}ichafd. Money will never again come to the south
as it used to- and hence the Fth ideas of cx
p2ndifure give place to the seyerest economy the bet
ter Be advised. Save money-al you can-and
improve and beautify your homes with it or invest in
joint-stoc, manufacturing companies.
An4thcr thing not les important More pains
must Re taken with the moral and intellectual trimming
OF GU youth. Too many parents act as if they
thought spelingbooks designed alone for freedmen,
aud Tint their white offspring woulI pick up edu-
c'ton in the streets faster than they do round oaths
aid filthy slang This is i grovons, cuIpablc error
By education and industry youth should be kept
superior to freedmen; AMI by these means alone can
the refl ascendancy be malutlincd The abolition of
slavery nccessitacs a order OF things; and poor
should be brought to look the fact in the
face tat they either learn trade IN or ont of the
ptniteatary. Il bchooves everybody, rich or poor
BIZ llborng themselves to incalclt the noble lesson
that l5or is the handspring Of all legitimate wealth
ID SECRETARY position. Labor is the real 8idtn touch
tt at TURNS everything to gold, and only to The idle and
tic vicious is the wand a virtueless thing.
GERMAN LABoRERs on LOUISIANA PLANTATIONS
The Natchcz Courier concludes that German and other
y bite immigrant labor is impracticable for southern