The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-28
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From the Planters Banner.

From the Planters Banner.
MIR. Kissack has just returned
from Liverpool to this place, and
brings with him some interesting
facts jim relation to the European
labor. He has had an experience
Of fifteen or twenty years in man.
aSin" sugar plantations i'll Louis
lana, and knows the industrial
wants of this country as we'll as
amy man in it.
Mr.. Kissack states that on the
wharves of Liverpool he saw
thousands of men, women and
children, families from Scotland,
Ireland, England and Germany,
people of strong muscles and
Injured to labor and hardships,
who were almost daily filling emil
grant vessels bound for the
United States. Most Of the fam
lilies, by pinching economy and
daily privations, have saved
enough money to barely take
them to the United States. and
they are willing to go to any
spot where they can make il de-
cent living. Most Of them would
not ask a better prospect than Il
home on the sugar plantations
in healthy portion of Louisiana.
with shelter from the rain. mules
and tools to work with, il supply
of provisions until they can have
time to make their own provi-
sions. and Il share in the crop.
Many Of these families have
nearly or quite enough money to
pay their expenses in an emf
grant vessel to New Orleans, and
if planters had agents on the
Liverpool wharves to select fani-
lies, and come in with funds to
help such families through as
are short Of funds. thousands
might be turned to this State
without much trouble, or Il heavy
expense. This labor can be
brought here at Il quarter the eN-
pcnse Of Chinese labor,'and when
it arrives, every working man
and woman is worth to the State
of Louisiana more than 900.
And when these families come
here and settle down, they will
remain; but if single men are
brought from Europe or any
where else. they are not reliable,
and may leave for other places as
soon as they have ten dollars
ahead to pay their passage out OF
the country.
If the State would spend a
quarter as much to bring this
kind Of immigrants to the cane
and cotton fields Of Louisiana as
it has spent to fill the pockets of
carpet-baggers and greedy adj
venturers, the labor supply OF
the State would be ample. and
we would have such laborers as
would vote for honest men to
rule the State. Or, if the same
amount had been judiciously
spent by the planter on the
wharvcs Of Liverpool that has
been worse than uselessly squan-
dered in bringing Cinnamon from
China and from California, and
single men from the west and
from Canada, and negroes from
Virginia and North Carolina, the
labor interests Of this State
would be in Il healthy condition,
and the voting interests also.
Mr.. Kissacll says that a mil
lion OF money would put Il hum
dred thousand Of these hardy,
frugal, weathcr-beaten laborers
in the crippled and waning plan
tations of this State; and, worked
on the share system, giving them
an honest percentage of the
crops, and a white mans fare,
the planting interests of the coUn-
try would be sure to prosper.
He thinks this kind of labor
admirably adapted to the prairics
and open lands of the upper part
of st. Mary. and the other por-
tions Of the .Attakapas parishes
and st. Landry, where the health
is so fine, and the lands so pro-
ductivc, and so we'll adapted to
making home supplies of food
for man and beast.
y distinguished cN-Governor
of Ohio, famous for storytelling
relates that on one occasion,