The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-02

Morning Star and CATHOLIC Messenger.
NEW oRLKAEs. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY ., ls1s.
The disastrous effects of debt and heavy
taxation upon the prosperity OF clyi
were never made more clearly apparens,
than in the ease of Philadelphia which has,,l
for some years, been governed by a"ring,R
as corrupt as the Tweed ring Of New York.
Under the weight of an enormous debt
and extremely high taxes, that city is fast |
losing her manufactures which formed the
principal source of her greatness. Upon
this subject the Enquirer discourses as fol-
lows: -.-..-- ~
The reason given for this 10 that the sim
gle element Of the city's prosperity 10 be-
ing randy crushed out by exorbitant tax
alton :, that the largest manufacturerss
whose names are Identified wtsh our most
important enterprise, are taking their
elsewhere-to other piaces adjacent which
40 not absorb over o third of the profits in
municipal taxes alone. Morris Taskar q
Co., who employ 8 thousand men, and who
feed thousanes OF people, have =. s'fsNa Soy
Castle, and one frm, tho most prominent
builder of locomotives In the country or
the world whose shops ara in Philadeiphia,
is now prospecting through the interior Of
the State for q new location to which may
high taxes. TAls Afnr empaeys over a
thousand meg, and IL supports between
Eve aud ten thousand persons. Where the
firm goes these people will go, 80 that the
city loses ct one blow not only miInons OF
caDital but thousands Of its inhabitants.
How great our losses have been in these
particulars We may learn by inquiring what
amount Of money and what number OF
people have left Philadelphia within ten
years, since the taxes began to be high, to
Wiimingt and New Castle, respectable
cities. Their quick growth, their wealth
and industries they owe to the vastness OF
our tax rate.
ST.. LOUIS AND CHIcAGo.-The struggle
for supremacy among the cities of the
West now lies between this city and Chi
eago. Every facility for commerce, every
opening for manufacturers, every new bus
mess connection, every advantage that To-
cality, enterprise, capital and intelligence
can seize, must be made the most OF II We
do not wish to sec our natural pride lower
in which every nerve 10 strained to the ut.
most and 1t is not enough that We should
main tain our supremacy it is absolutely
necessary that all tho world should DO ae.
customed to acknowledge it, and that nc
partial comparison should incline to oal
ness which are published with each new
year are the greatest advertisement, the
most convincing argument that can bs
given to the outside world, and in these
rs they have heretofore been published
st. Louis 10 at disadvantage. The three
great staples of grain, lumber and live
stock are the leading features Of these re
turns, those on which information lie fullest
and by which the readiest judgment ii
formed, and in these three staples Chicago
maintains the easy lead of past years.
But if we turn to the respective account
of the manufacturing business of the tw'
cities the tables would literally and fgura
lively be turned. In the manufacture o
tobacco, in the milling business, and abov
all, in the varied industries connected wit
iron, St. Louis is so far ahead that it i
much to be regretted thai we have no late
statistics than those from the census table
to guide us.-St. Louis Globe.