New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-18
IAN INVITATION no INDUSTRY.

AN INVITATION TO INDUSTRY.
MIR Hitchcock, of the Relief Bureau
Chicago, writes to the Rural South Lam
Of New Orleans that the labor market o
that city is oyerstocked, and asking in
formation as to what Louisiana can do il
order to relieve the glut. In other words
Mr. Hitchcock wants to know if the
South is in need Of laborers upon hel
plantations, railroads, Ievees and other
public institutions? If the author Of this
inquiry could be induced to visit the State
Of Louisiana, he would be enabled to
answer his own question afirnatively,
that the South does want labor, and that
badly; and if be should exercise his own
| Judgment he would advise lot of healthy,
muscular and patient people to enter the
field of this want But if Mr.. Hitchcock
derived his conclusions, not from what he
saw but from what he might hear, he
would withhold his advice Let us ex-
plain
A personal inspection of the condition
ana capacities Of Louisiana would reveal
to Mr. Hitchcock That any and every sort
Of labor is wanted in this State, and that
its wages can be secured by any inteIli-
gent man, beyond the possibility Of loss
In the first place, there are honest farmers
in every locality who are willing to hire
men and pay them stated wages. These
men can be discovered by being inquired
for. One years wages will enable any in
dustrious and temperate man to start life
for himself, for land is cheap, and proprie-
tors are willing to sell on almost any sort
Of terms. The crop differs from that in
the North in this, that it will always sell
at a profit. The farmer in Louisiana never
loses a full season.
In Ohio and Indiana the best Of years
but poorly pays the hUSbandman, while
Louisiana the worst of seasons does better
than that The exceptions to our general
poverty prove that the South has never
been fairly dealt with by the men who
pretend to cultivate her lands When a
woman or man can make one thousand
dollars clear profit off of farm from his
2r her own labor, assisted at long inter
'als by such help as all crops need at par
ocular times, that proves the wonderful
capacity Of the country, for this feat can
lot be accomplished in Illinois, as it has
,een done in three or four Of the Southern
states, What one person can do, that an
Their person can do, provided they are
9th industrious and intelligent. Mr..
will examine this fact particu-
erly, that a prudent farmer, assisted by
and thrifty wife, can make him {
If Independent in the State Of l
ouisiana in three years, which can |
OF be said Of any other country outside {
the Southern States. This assertion is l
OF a vain thing, but it is statement I
unded on what has occurred, and that, {
%. under very unfavora5Ie circumstances. s
L old man on the TecAe bought a small o
I'M on a credit worked it on q credit t
rough the kindness OF his neiglbors, 1
d at the end Of the first year paid all a
S debts and had money enough left to G
ny him through another year, and in Il
rec years he was worth two thousand g
,llars, besides his homestead Is there S;
other locality in the world where such a
suit can be pointed to as the result of A
ne and simple tarmings None that we
ow Of.
Then, if NJ. Hitchcock has any really q
rify and industrious people on his list, NJ
can safely instruct him to this effect Il
ncerning them, that if they are willing hf
make up their minds before Hey IeGuc fl
jc1go to earn wages at the rate Of Sd
liar pev day here in. Louisiana until pc
y can secure q home Of their own, ve
ich will not cost them more than two in
ndred dollars, and l9W stick to the res0- ST.
on they made IN Chic1go, they can come nc
ng and be provided for, and it is almost Liza
g to say that such men will be indepen- Su
It in three years. The necessity for tn
ming to this State with fixed design is to-
5: that the man who has no purpose of Gel
own is always unfortunate, and the VI
n who comes to Louisiana without an
ng resolved to work for the full price me
is offered to him will become con fer
ID about wages and while waiting for SCI
g strike VIII lose all his time and be- pr
le as poor as the balance of the labor Isl
da,
we have answered MI Hitchcock's
stions in the spirit he expected, we are IN
!; if we have not met his expectations, pie
laps cur labor might have been better oei
owed if it lad been directed at tle la ton
rs themselves. eve
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