The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-21

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Every rejecting mind is bound
to concede that some plan must
Of necessity be adopted to increase
our laboring population. The
South wants power, and money
Is power. She must have more
railroads, more factories, better
leyees, and have her immense
mineral resources developed. 1t
is not enough to stand still, and
yet, how are we to maintain even
our present position, if we rely
only upon the negro population
for labOrg Several causes con.
spire to reduce the number of ne
gro laborers every year, prominent
among which we may notice the
decrease by death, without cor
responding natural increase, and
the gradual withdrawal of labor
ers from the plantations to homes
OF their own, to trades, steamboats,
and other avocations unconnected
with agriculture. Every year will
but increase the number OF ne
groes who will be abandoning the
fields for more genteel and light
er employment, and thus in a few
years the planter viii find his la
boring force imperceptibly reduced
to small number of lazy, decrep-
id, worthless negroes, unfit for the
heavy work Of eultivating corn
and cotton.
1t is also to be considered that
with good crops and strong com
petition, laborer's wages will be
augmented to frightful figures.
Small farmers will necessarily be
forced to stop hiring, since it is
universally admitted that large
planters can pay higher wages
and make better profits than small
ones. Such a condition OF our
labor system would tend inevita-
bly, to make the rich richer and
the poor poorer, and would end in
firmly established aristocracy.
To prevent this approaching
and certain evil, labor must be
had somewhere, and in such
quantities as to preserve fairly the
balance of power between capital
and labor. As the tendency now
is, labor is making fearful strides
to the complete mastery over cap
ital. Cheap labor is essential to a
nations prosperity, since prices
are based principally upon the cost
Of production OF the raw material
and can not range high when the
field for competition, provided by
cheap labor, is so extensive and
accessible. Thus, while we can
out deplore the immigration OF
of ignorant, idolatrous laborers,
on the one hand, we must con-
slider, on the other, the great evil
Of constantly increasing demand
for labor upon supply every
year becoming smaller and small
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But it is too soon to calculate
with much confidence upon the
effects of Chinese Immigration
Congress has not spoken. The
men who compose that body may
see fit to prohibit the voluntary
immigration of Chinese laborers,
as Congress already has the i'm
portatlon Of COOLIES from the same
empire. Secretary Boutwell, pro-
nounces the new movement
quasi renewal Of the slave trade,
and taking up his pious New
England thories Congress may
interdict voluntary immigration
from China, and confne the South
to the "wards OF the nation" for
all time to come in the selection
of her laborers.- 0aacbjta T'ele-
graph.
WEBBING UP.-We have been
informed by one of the tax asses
Scrs who has lately travelled over
most Of the parish, that the cotton
worm is webbing upon most all
the plantations, but that the
planters evince no alarm. There
are now plenty OF bolls formed to
make over half crop and with a
late dry fall, more will be made
than can be picked out with the
present force of hands. Our pros
poets are anything but discourag-
ing South Western.
Industry generally achieves
more than genius. One works,
the other waits-one does thing
the other is going to do 1t when