Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-21
INDUSTRIAL CLAssES-THEzR
VALUE.

British idea that the East Indies was
a place N which TO ansss fortune
rapidly, to be spent in embellisiiing
life somewhere else, was long the bus
mess theory Of New Orleans. The
completeness of other cities has now so
reduced the rate Of business profits
here that one must dedicate life time
to the acquisition of a competence for
himself and those who are dependent
on him. In this point Of view our in
terests are like those of other cities
We need wOIkingmen. That class OF
merchants mechanics and labors WHO
accumulate into wealth the economies
of toll and in relieving and raising
themse YES, enrich aid enlarge the
community TO which they belong. a
widowed washwOman may rear and
teach son, who, passing through the
subordinate employme',ts of commerce
may become an eminent and bonored
merchant. The, system of administia-
ton which encourages labor aud thrift,
by low rents and taxes, cheap food,
fuel and abundant water, attracts
thousands whose aggregate power
gives name and rank to the cities they
build. The system of administration
Which grants contracts and mOnopo
lies. IN any Of The clements Of su5sis-
tence, discomages and drives away
these industrial interests, ana the com
mnnity suffers accordingly.
What sends from Europe to Ameri-
ca 500, COO people Annually /! The pres
sure of system SO adjusted as that
The industrial classes exchange their
daily labor for their daily bread. SO
adjusted that for the hours OF sickness
or the decline Ol lie, their is nothing
lett the leborer except endurance. 1t
is this desperation it is the hope Of
AN acre he can call his own--of the
elevation of his children, where indus
try may command Il competency, that
sends these thousands; and OF what
value are they ? They open farms,
build roads, aise hocks aud herds,
create manufactures. 1t is to these in
4 dustrial interests are due tue military
and political power Of Indiana, and
Ohio and Illinois. The colonial hand
grants were made TO noblemen and
corporation To these we're given
provinces. Settlement and progress
was slow. The latter policy has been
to give 70 individuals, the land each
can cultivate. The result has been q
rich and populous empire. The wealth
OF the West is rs much the growth o
industrial industry as the ant hill ans
its galleries are the work OF the ieellC
insects that toll on It's construction.
sye wish 80 apply these observations
The individual classes OF New Orleans
need reasonable rents. Their taxa
ton on real estate should be reduced
and capitalists encouraged to erect
mere buildings. This people nee(
cheap food and fuel, then no combina
ton to raise the price of meats, vege
! tables or fruit should be tolerated by
the rich and intelligent classes. The
people should be relieved against ;
corner in any necessary of life, just "a
the banks Of Chicago and New Yorl
have dislocated the plans Of the golG
and corn corners. The people of New
Orleans need Cheap aud abundant wa
ter. TO the poor OF New Orleans wa
/ ter may be considered among the luxu
ries. The city purchased the water
works. 1t is then in the power of til
/. city to supply and save from fire til
E people and property of the suburbs. |
l may be said il would not pay. Neithe
! does sending tire postal service int
the sage plains of Dakota pay, but t
fail TO do so would pay much worse
! The water supply which will tend t.
spread the city aud enhance its taxa
, bic values, will pay like the homestea
or the postal system, or tie frontier dt
1 Tense which makes every Indian kille
! cost 100000. otect Orpeople; car
: for them favor their honest eiIorts {
acquire competency. and the rcpa
Q you a thousaad fold. Cypress, grin
$ and neglect them-base All the profit
: OF wealth upon exaction npon indus
!, try, and the industrial classes pass il
: to the lazzaroni aud brigands of otbe
!, lands. Without urging it on ground
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