New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-29

noWerfal. must not be tIampled under loot
as was too often the case under slaveo-
cratic rule in Louisiana. This the REPUB-
1IcAN has always insisted upon, while eur
Democratic contemporaries in the Sou b
whose faces are still turned backward, and
their hands bound to the corpse Of the
confederacy, still advocate the false theo-
ries and the bad practices Of slave times.
We wish to see our citizens fully avail
themselves Of those great national, social,
and political forces by the aid of which free
communities like the North and En-
gland have become rich and powerful and
respected. Our opponents, for the most
part, advocate effete traditions and theories
that belong to past ages, and if adopted
would lead back to barbarism. That is
just the difference between the REPUBLICAN
and the opposition journals. Judge ye
between u.s."
The REPUBLICAN maintains that the ma
terial if not the moral and political saliva
ton of the State depends largely upon the
immigration OF industrious, thrifty, and
well-to-de settlers from the North and from
Europe. The opposition journals have
clsmored for immigration, but immigrants
have not come. They have piped Justify.
but the dancers were not. The Legislature
has created an Immigration Bureau, and
pamphlets have been scattered broadcast
over the world Still nobody would come.
The stream has, in fact, been steadily set
ting the other way Why is this Our
contemporaries have not yet learned
the alphabet Of prosperity in the
South. They seem to have no
comprehension Of the fact that in order to
induce strangers to settle in our beautiful
State, whose wonderful fertility and incom-
parable advantages everywhere are
known and admitted, we must protect their
lives and property, must respect their re-
ligious and political opinions, in fact, must
do to them just as we would wish to be
done by were we living in the communities
from which these settlers are expected to
come. While inviting immigrants in one
column they devote dozens of columns to
indiscriminate abuse and Vilifoation of
whole classes Of people, Of the majority of
the citizens Of the State, simply on the
ground Of their being Republicans. HUI
man ingenuity could not devise better
plan to keep capital and labor out OF the
State. 1t is perfectly useless to talk about
immigration to Louisiana sc long as our
contemporaries pursue this absurd and sui
cidal policy. Have we or have our oppo-
nents the light in this matter?
We could easily extend this comparison
to other subjects which relate to the pros
perity Of Louisiana, and the health and
growth of New Orleans. The substitution
of Industrious and thrifty farming for the
old cotton planting system that has made
our people bankrupt; the drainage of New
Orleans so as to ward off the yellow fever;
the extension Of the Opelousas railroad
to Texas 50 as to give our city direct
trade worth many millions per year, and
get rid Of the outrageous monopoly of the
Morgan line of steamers, and especially to
break up that abomination of cruelties the
shipment Of starving and diseased cattle
for our market by the steamship king;
all these subjects we have treated exhaust
lively in the interest OF our fellow citizens.
Our opponents on the contrary hardly
ever refer to them. Some of them they
apparently dare not touch. Are we in the
right or they? Judge ye between us"