New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-09

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Srcb i human nature. and the color Of
.be skin does rot change the impulse OF
fine heart No man, black or white. takes
TO Ia Dor for the gain or pleasure o:
another. This we VIII presume 20 have
been shown by the hostility 70 the corvee.
or two days labor on the farm or roads Of
tn. landholder 0: Old times, and by the
strikes Of to-day. Tie American system
gives to all men WHO can or who wish to
buy homestead the best facilities Tor
doing so. Immigrants quit Europe be-
cause tn ey desire to escape predlal labor
for another, and to become landholder, IN
their own right This is the reason why
such immigrants go directly to the regions
of cheap and small farms IN the North
west. This is the reason why they can
not buy our more valuable lands il Lou
isiana, and why they will not indent them
selves to labor an indefinite time for an
employer. In the language OF another:
Let a Door man become the absolute pos.
SCISSOR of q little home, ''be y ever SO home
w." where he can rest il safety and raise
his own garden ''sarse. where h-s niue
bow NAV plant his apple tree and mark It's
yearly growth. with a little plot tor his
wife and daughters 20 watch over, ana
praise and delight in the roses and illles as
they bud and blossom, and from :hat mo-
ment YOU make the husband and father
better member Of society and more loyal
citizen of the republic.
This poor man. then. becomes JOINT
owner-and there is pride IN that word
which none who have not at least aspired
to represent can il understanding the re-
public, and then its institutions assume
different view and value in his eyes The
loafer who sleeps in the station hunks
NAV be as rich as the poor settler Of the
prairie: but where the one may be Wiling
to ioin q riot for the chance Of a plundered
grocery, the other has a prospective IN
terest in public order, which will keep
him at home. simply because he has
home to go to. The policy Of Louisiana
is. therefore to organize the small home
stead system, by the subdivision and sale
of the large estates. In conversation
with one Of our most experienced and
sagacious sugar planters and merchants,
he sanctioned the plan Of subdiyiding an
estate of two thousand acres among forty
holders. The same machinery would
grind and granulate the crop which would
be necessary under q single proprietor.
If the cane Of some Of the small holders is
ground last, the same lotmight have betallen
the same fields, since some must be ground
last any way. The separation OF the
farmer and the miller would be the same
as in the cereal districts. The owner Of
the sugar mill might advance some steps
in the preparation for market. He might
purchase the crops. and become also re-
finer. With the great importance OF this
subject, the concentration of intellect and
interest would readily work out its solu-
ton. To US the failure OF our sugar In
tere8t is explained by the nature Of hire
ling labor. 4 planter becomes bound to
a factor for several thousand dollars, in
vested in teams. utensils. food and wages.
He UNDERWRITERS the success Of crop.
The laborers not being interested in the
same result, can only be expected to COM
ply with their special contract of months
work for a month"; wages. If the pay or
provisions stop. so may the laborer. y
mule lean and feeble or lame of a leg
suits the laborer better perhaps than
sound mule. since the former
may not Le as hard to follow. The
planter is then bond, while the laborer is
free. Laborers in the dense populations
and low wages of Europe are more in the
power of the employer than they are here,
with good demand tor field labor, mild
climate and abundant food. These are
the difficulties in the way of enforcing
labor contracts in Louisiana. OF in
extracting from the laborer the largest
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