New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-25

thing else, must be well managed to be-
come great and powerful. 1t may have
great natural advantages, but to have com.
plets success ii Must have good govern.
ment and sound, practical gO-a-head men
to develop its resources by enticing the
trade and commerce of other sections ia
seek its markets. There is wealth enough
here in the shape of real estate to afford
revenue sufficient to carry on the machine
ry of municipal government. The growth
of the city in the way of population and
Improvement depends in a great degree on
the growth Of business. Business must be
fostered and encouraged, not crippled and
fnally driven to other cities, where it finds
more attention and less expense. With the
influx of business comes the influx of popu.
lation and all the variety of improvements
that 60 to make up the busy hum of life In
a great and hourishing city. 1t is the realiEa-
ton Of these things in city life that en-
haRces the value Of real estate, gives the
property holder handsome return in the
shape of rents for houses built, and ct the
same time causes steady growth in the
value of real estate. As the city spreads
cut, lots that could be bought OF one time for
one hundred dollars frequently attain to the
value of thousands of dollars, and men in a
very short space of time have become possess
sed Of princely fortunes in this way, without
doing anything more than to invest few
hundred dollars ia vacant lots. The time
has likely passed when men in New Or
leans, possessed Of no public spirit, can
hope to flourish by simply depending on
the exertionS Of others, and the natural i'd
vSntages of the place to build it up. Pro-
perry holders must put their shoulders to
the wheel and help give that impetus and
direction to affairs that will cause our city to
resume its growth and onward march to
that goal of blessedness which kind Prov
idence has marked out for it. Property
holders, if they are wide-swake, are more
Interested in the growth or decay of the
city than any other class Of our people, II
the city, from causes which We shall not
now stop to discuss, has come to stand
point when her people have to determine
She iB to 60 backward or onward,
there can be no class among them more in
Lerested in the result than the msH who
have their Thousands of dollars invested
n real estate. 1t is their interest then,
md duty to make every exertion
and sacrifce-if they please 10 call it
'scri6ce-to help bring about . eondi-
ion Of things here that will insure pros
1erity. If it is necessary to have cheap rents
and heavy taxation for while in order to
I'sist in bringing back prosperity let then
bear it manfully, but at the same time see
hat we have an honest and economical ad-
Of municipal aud State affairs.
Drive the drones from the public service
md cut of useless expenditures Of public
money. Encourage the completion Of the
Houston Railroad so that we can have
sheap and expeditions transportation from
Texas This will give US cheap meats for
Dur people and large trade for our mer-
chants. Let US encourage the Immediate
building of the Chattanooga railroad which
s to connect our city with Tennessee.
This will help to give us cheap bread--and
With cheap rents, cheap meats and cheap
read, and the disposition en- the part Of
apital to help and encourage labor our
ity will soon become filed with mechan-
cs and laborers of all kinds, and in this
Eay much will be done toward restoring
But this is not all that has to
e done. We have got to remove the
hackles from shipping and commerce.
he exactions on ships entering our port
re said to be out Of all reason, and must be
lodifed il we would not drive shipping
ON US altogether. Our wharf charges are
aid to be exhorbitant, and in fact every
Expense that is incurred in loading a vessel
our levees, whether from sea or from in
md, is considered so high as to be serious
npediments in the way of trade. Let these
zcessive and ruinous exactions be at
nee removed, and let our commission
lerchants learn to do business as well and
, cheap as the merchants of other cities, |
nd all these things combined will have q |
holesome effect, and in the end all classes |
the community will very perceptibly |
eel the change, but none more sensibly |
ian the owners of real estate. If they |
re to receive the larg It benefits from the |
lccess of the city as city competing with
her great cities of our Union for business,
by then they should be willing to bear
leir share of the burdens-if burdens
ley are-wilhout murmur. They should |
OF desire, in order to have real estate re-
eyed from portion of taxation, that
tipping and commerce should be hamper
with exaetions here that are not met
18th elsewhere.
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