New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-13
TIE Road TO INCREASE.

If our people were as fully alive to
legitimate speculation as they are to
speculative political theories, the diff
ference in actual results would be
plainly observable to the naked eye of
every citizen. For instance, there are
large landed proprietors in Louisiana and
the adjoining States who are paying taxes
upon vast tracts of unpgoductive real
estate. A similar condition of affairs ex-
lists in the Northwest. The difference be-
tween the conduct of the former and that
of the latter is painfully apparent, not
only to the traveller, but to the reader
We can even see it, shut up as we are
in our little six by ten apartment. 1t
comes to us in q hundred varied
shapes. The latest testimony on
this subject is furnished by a small
octave sheet, published in London at
merely nominal price, intended for circu-
lation throughout England, Scotland,
Wales and Ireland. On the first page of
this publication is flaming advertisement
that proposes to give to every settler in q
certain Western town a town lot. Flat
tering advantages are offered in other re-
spects: Three other pages are filed with
the advertisements of other Western
towns, all Offering the same tempting
premiums for actual settlers. Two other
pages are devoted to the publication of
official correspondence from the Governor
of Western States, relating in glowing
colors the manifold benefits that are Of
fered to Europeans who settle in the West.
Then follows detailed statement of the
cost of emigration, what steamships to
patronize, what railroad lines to travel
upon, distances, character of the land,
quality of the crops produced, wages paid
to iaborers, facilities for building, infor-
nation about the present resident popu-
lation, statistics of health, number of
churches and schools, detailed prices of
the necessaries of life, and all the minute
particulars that careful man most de-
sires to know in order to satisfy himself
about his ability to undertake the move
ment. In fact this publication is just
what would be impaired if an agent was
sent to give you information by word of
mouth.
We have all these advantages, but our
great dereliction is that we do not let the
world know it. Suppose, for instance,
an advertisement costing thirty shillings,
equal to about eight dollars, informed the
people of England that in a high,
healthy, productive and accessible neigh
borhood in Louisiana or Mississippi the
poor laborer of Manchester could secure
homestead free of charge, with chance
to earn good wages until he was able to
build him a comfortable home, and that
nothing but the application for this
blessing was needed to secure it, how
many people would come to US that now
go to the Northwest? If it was added
that these poor em;grants would
meet with active sympathy from
all the people. and that their
actual settlement would vastly
increase the value of their
newly acquired homes, what an ad-
ditional impulse this would give to the
man who has never dared to hope for a
home of his own? Suppose that the
landed proprietor who offered this induce
ment could secure a settlement of three
hundred men upon his now improbable
lands, what would be his profit on the
acres which he might reserve from set
Element? We can not estimate the benefit
at present, because as personal and
patriotic work the proposition is of al
most incalculable value.
This is the way the West is springing
into life and power. She grows by virtue
of her energy and forecast. While we,
who have all the advantages, are sluggish
ly resting like log in the midst of the
great current of progress.
WILL THIS WILL STAND7
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