New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-16
LOUISIANA IMMIGRATION AND HOME
STEAD COMPANY,

come to the assistance Of Galveston
LOUISIANA IMMIGRATION AND HOME
STEAD COMPANY.
We have received copy of the charter
of this association, the objects Of which
are to introduce immigrants. foreign and
domestic, into Louisiana and encourage
their settlement: upon lands owned or con-
trolled by the company; to facilitate and
aid the owners OF real estate shares to
dispose OF the same in the interest OF i'm
migrants and Of all persons desiring home
steads. L. is also proposed to assist in
the organization Of home industries and
handicraft, and to aid settlers in the de-
veiopment of the mineral and agricultural
resources of the lands on which they
locate.
We anticipate much good from an asso-
citation OF respectable citizens manitesting
such patriotic purposes. and therefore
commend it to the consideration and sup
por; of the people OF Louisiana. without
respect to past condition or color. 1t is a
move III one important direction. It says:
The Immigration OF an intelligent, virtu-
on. and toiling class OF people is the only
present feasible plan by which our political
troubles can be solved.
The solution of political troubles is
indeed an important consideration. The
homestead feature in this plan favors
greatly that object The laborerS of the
State desire to establish themselves as, at
least. the cotters and peasantry Of other
lands with this difference here. that they
will own thei; own little holdings in fee
simple. This may be favored greatly by
the subdivision Of lands as contemplated
by the association. Nothing will tend
more to invite the confidence OF capital
and labor than this care Of the laborer.
Nothing will increase the immigration Of
labor from the worn lands Of the Eastern
planting States than to make it known
that within the benehcent climate and fer
tile soil of Louisiana homesteads may be
had payable in labor. It is the system of
day labor 50 well understood in France,
where the farm laborers live in villages
and go daily to their work in the adjacent
fields. Il has been even introduced in
Plaquemines parish, where strips of land,
running from the river to the swamp, and
laid of in lots fronting on a street, divid
ing the strip along its whole length. have
been sold to the colored people. Each
family has here its own independent home.
and carries its labor to the daily market
We cannot impress upon these gentle
men too strongly the importance of toiera-
ton towards the civil. religious and po-
Utica! opinions of those who come among
them. These gentlemen should remember
that respectable Immigrant, '~i1 20. bring
their ia1li.isS tcis.rs trey ore received rM
soc:o' os.rocjsm. No fertility o: soii--no
benefcence OF climate no possible COM
pensation III money. will make a good
immigrant compel his family 70 STAY where
they are not received rs equal associates.
The REPUBLICAN has heretofore treated OF
the success of Virginia IN attracting pop
ulation from Europe and the North. \
writer in the Richmond Wig thus illus
trates the importance Of doing unto YOUR
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