New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-11
SERIOUS THOUGHTS 80 COMMERCIALLY.

SERIOUS THOUGHTS 80 COMMERCIALLY.
The Republican party naturally feels a
deeper interest in Louisiana than any other
political party, because it is, end expects
}, to be, responsible for its administration.
1t is, therefore, that the REPUBLICAN has SO
strenuously opposed the continued abuses
of financial credit and the defamation OF
those itinerant soreheads who malign its
condition abroad IN all languages.
1t was explained that the trade OF New
Orleans was not destroyed by debt and
taxes, nor was its decline due to ''a'want
of capital as profoundly argued by some
commercial Authorities. We now tell our
merchants that New Orleans is threatened
with a positive diversion of trade, which
should be, if possible, prevented, and II
not to be prevented should be at least
replaced from other sources. We
have often heard if argued from
| years back that a railroad can not carry
in competition with river" We have
| heard this asserted with all the plethoric
| emphasis of the most potent factors that
| ever carried "portfolio, and who were
in correspondence with the most pro-
found heads ever shaken over an ''in-
evitable" advance Of a 'farthing on up
lands" 1t is true that many of these
dictators of opinion did not survive COM
mercially, but went down by dozens
under some unforeseen lurch Of the
buoyant staple in which they dealt; yet
the dogma thas 0s railroad con not carry
ip competition with o sives" survived
That dogma has been nowise destined 60
the same practical sefutatioas given to q
rule of the scaa by lola Monss2 'Nad-
am said the CONDUCTOR 'yoU con not
smoke youe cigarette In che ladies
cas.~ eyes," said the ~llful offender,
as she sighe spiral os vapos eurled
FROM hes eonfenptuous iipss ''bus you
see san" Ne stated che other
day in detail che immense commerce con.
Quoted by pail across the 11ississippi and
Ohio rivess, the 3ppahchiano SSleghaney
snd Blue Ridge mountains We ex-
planned that parkes prices and financial
facilities carried is by shess soutes in
preference 60 ous OWL So while shs
dogma semains chat 0'sailseads eaa Not
carry in competition with sivefss" The
facts show That railroads e9a aud ia carry
in competition with fiyefx
Eo~s phas eve wish 70 calf eOfpmssciaf
attention 90 is ehiss The discomfort Of !
Western farmers % paying three bushels
fog she transportation ef one has ssinus
lated q demand for more and cheaper rails
ways e has eacited action under that
hw Of commefce shas trade alust move
upon sight lines a road is projected bee
tweeR council Bluffs iowa. ana New
York; &c %i1I shorten present lines two
hundred miHeso This will make a line of
one Thousand miles. There may bee and
there Will be, as many simifay lines buik
as are needed Now. listen 20 what one Of
the livess american men says on che cae
pacity Of Fail 20 haul corno Mr.. e. II.
Ferguson Of Troy New Iosks argues to
show that rail fatss, per ton, on corn from
Chicago (nins dollars ot from Sd Louis
Gwelte dollarsS to New York are Excess
sives He proceeds 70 show chat il a double
track road be built az o cost Of eighty
thousand dollars per mile corn may be
haule3 one thousand nIes fos two
dollars and City cents pee sons OF
say sig GENTS peg bushel. We pub
lish elsewhere She computations of
Mro TefgusonD They are in minute de.
tau and seem Sncontrovertib!eS Now. if
these figures be put in by the farmers Of I
the Weses how eaR we withstand them! I
gha8 they will be pus Oh in some shape or
othe8 Is Beyond question: Twenty mil !
lions OF producers and CONSUMERS can not |
be shut ju b monopclisssO II these mil
lions Base 5Fidged sivers and sunneled
FOUNTAINS 20 Narkeeso ii they have made, /
af national eoseo q railroad across this cone
dnenS ehesa che Fifty. sixty or one Suno
lred anillohs sfich Will snhabi! the same
'egiop can aoS well be prohibited from
taking any ways that may be needed to
'ecuee satisfactory intercourse with the
same markets Ss may Be saids o'This
'as @Ss be done" Bus the sepfy will
,one as 81 has 6esetofore someo o'Jt has
,een done
With ehfs demonstrated danger, what
hould do the duty of New Orleans?
Jlearlyp % fire against fire. Send railo
Dads into Texas and all adjacent territory
Ask this 'tyrannical, imperial, Casaris-
ical' government to adopt trade treaties
With all countries south Of New Orleans;
SIX it to put on lines of steamers to Pana-
ma, to Havana to Venezuela, TO the
Amazon, to Rio Janeiro and to Buenos
Ayres. This longitudinal trade secured
between the tropics and che great valley
If the Mississippi and the lake coasts, New
orleans sits supreme in a commerce that
an never be taken away from her, since
he holds it upon the same law of trade
which has deprived her Of so much that
he once called her own. We have pointed
'ut the danger and the remedy. TO effect
Will require harmony among our people,
nd the cooperation Of representative in
erests, which New Orleans has gnhappily
lone little 20 conciliateo
free COMPANIES IN LOUISIANA !
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