The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-13
The Creates. Problem Of All.

M Mary Alrxossus.
Tho Greatest Problem Of All.
,x... ~, dabou. Column In the New Orleans Timssl
urree,a,.n propounds q query the an
.v., tn whisss IN, volves tho welfare Of more
shsu two. third1 81 ssis population
A ,oar writings have aseonstsa'sd y Wou ID
like 70 ask ysur advice On asestie. s.ttx
lair average cierk. By hard work manage
to live through tbs winter and half etarvs In
sapmer. Clerking 10 irksoms to me, for love
my liberty. dstsss the conyensisnslities Of
Httle wife in the world. who would and aces
DO all she can to help me- who can perform
admirably on the cooking stove, operate the
in the parlor and surpass nins.t enths Of ladies
on the piano. Now, want to 60 to Texas and
Dig . free, independent living out Of che
s!oundIifserm; have had little experience.
fe1 me to got Now comes the main point, and
mark 1t well, haze no nsonsy. A solution to
Tins question would greatly oblige many other
10 eonversant with the manipulations Of heme
stead associations, immigration societies, etc.,
put You the question. ] have enough money
- get there. FRkKlIAN.
Five years ago great many poor creole
fa1ilies, who had been driven ont Of the
By the terrible overflow of 1867, settled in
tie upper districts oe-tbe Eeche. They
had nothing-absoIutely nothing. They
were, AZ o rule, utterly anedncated, and
Sheir lives previous to that time had been
rather indolent than otherwise.
. country Of strictly agricultural charac-
ter. To these were added others from the
Aafourche region, quite 40 poor, but, per-
haps, with more industrious habits. They
sestled in Iberia parish, principally on the
prairie but Of ten families who went to
tiop, twelve mile below New Iberia, Mr..
Dennet, Agent Of the Immigration Com
pany, writes to the ISnes In its Sunday ia
Bne SD .'. 80 Is &
On the plantation Of Nine. GEevemberg
situated on Bayou Teche, parish Of st. Mary,
Of over one hundred white creoles ten fami
HEAL working on the share system. The mer
and boys all work in the Geld, and the women
DO al the house-work. There is not colored
person in the colony, in the field or house
they are up at peep of day, and their plows
md hoes, in the cultivating season, are bnsy
they rest from 10 A. NJ. to p. n. They cult
xata about seven acres of cane and thirteen
acres Of corn to the hand, and they have deei
sledly the cleanest and best crop we have seer
IN Soufhweast Louisiana. They number abou
tSrenty- ave hands in the field, ana they cult
vate about Eve hundred acres of land Thei
asout hoys do mems Work.
Speaking Of the question of health, h
asys:
Their doctors bill never reaches two dollar
head YEARLY. Usually it does not exceed
S1ndrei dollars for the whole colony, and tn
doctor lives moro than two miles distant. w
have the doctors statement
Vow for the profits:
rbese colonists have all the corn, Potatoe
vegetables, ETC., they MAKE Dus giSe nun " ~ ~
the DrOpRtetOr OF Tn
,5Ssstatiop, The last two years Tho net II
rsipts for the sugar and molasses MADE
ihese white men have amounted 10 oyer hof'
thousand dollars. =,
These ten creole families sell (each family
from 500 to 5000 worth Of eggs yearly; Som
Of them have more than u, loaned OUT o
Ma. Five families have made money enoug
% 10 off and buy homes, and are now oomfor
ThiJ situated. Their places in tho colon
AaTe been filled by FIVE other families
freeman" may not think this a pleas
mt picture, but he must consider whetht
Ia ia in a position to choose. The probel
II existence is revealing uglier and grin
Der aspects every day, and it begins to al
peas that some of US, even IN TINS ehte
had, may be compelled to do things
SRn't quite fancy. .,
New Orleans is overstocked with peopi
rad the country parishes vice Uersa. The
me twenty applications to every job her
md twenty jobs to every applicant ther
ne work here pays wretched pittance,
sore compensation with ,penury; there
yields independence, accommodating comtol
snd small though ever increasing saving
But " Freeman wants to go to Texf
Why Texas? Does he think it . bett
IsruainR country, or does he lack the mol
:1saragS to face q social decline so ne
RomaF
There is not q country on earth VIII
u.sserR richer harvests to the farmer til
EAose Attakapas parishes, nor Is there
Iaors an indpstrious man will meet W
snore liberal overtures. Mr.. Grevember
Example would gladly be followed by o.
eEa, we're the opportunity presented;
aAoEsouisiana Immigration Company
10 doubt, undertake to make all necess'
arrangements.