The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-03
Morning star and Catholic messenger.
NEW oRLRANS. SUNDAY, AUGUST ,. 1873.
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ed onr lifelong belief that nine families
wish themselves at home, in their hearts, how
ever they initiate the Spartan boy and smil
with their lips. We preached the social heres
pramped and close ones in August; that loos
costume and easy habits are better than dres
and manners Dc rigaer IN the dog days; tha
knows and served by quiet servants, is pre-
sumably preferable to, and certainly NOR
healthy than, disguised nondescript flung q
TRss.. sSnss ws ss
more and for our pains I'VE got black look
from the whilom tender Belinda and the sup
posed-to-be impasaive Feliha Jane. And thi
solely because these charmers were presently
engaged In war POutrance upon the pocket
OF their respective papas war that could hav
but one truce trip to "the springs )" blu
one satisfactory cartel-a carte blanche on thu
And We had said, besides the things quoted
that from business point Of view, this fierce
rush to distant summering was even more
serious than from o social point. We had
alluded to tho inordnate cost. of bad living
at Northern seasides and springs; we had
pointed the waste of the home establishment,
kept up at heavy expenditure at the best
and we had noted the most important fact of the
money drain from an already impoverished people.
ed his pocket sturdily, and Belinda and Felina
Jane bent their brows. But the facts are as
stern and unfailing. to-day as they were last
year, and as they have been for many years.
In taot they are somewhat sterner for the
Southern people have less money to give away
20 their Northern friends this year than usual
see hoto assck per dnnum the South throws ire
trievabiy into the lap of her more prosperous
fa Yer the NORTH: Of course we do not refer
ters of minor necessity that our own inaction
ana want Of enterprise have made us depend
ants upon the North for. We simply allnde to
sn anIaay spent At the North by South
carofnl estimate was prepared in 1860 81
by the New York Commeroia, Advertiser and by
the New York Herald and was made by the
one sirty ntsttous Of dollars and by the other
eerenty nastHons Of dollars. The estimates were
made for political effect, and at the time were
stnoagat exaggerated. But calculation demon
strated that they were rather under than over
The fact: just think ofit-an average of sixtv
hve millions Of dollars spent by Southern peo
PIE year after year at the North for senseless
OF II, note these pertinent queries, reeently
put in considering this very estimate. Whose
money built the great hotels of New York, her
dry goods palaces' Whose money supported
sara togA and Newport, and made q hero of
Fat aearn and Congressman of John Nor
M N1sseys Whose money was lavished on the
Sodern Phrynes and Aspasias and went to gild
their disturbances into luxuryi
Inc money Of Southern pleasure-seekers.
Ana can We say that the same excess of ex-
exist In even greater disproportion to the
poverty OF our peoplef And if any one doubts
that this oalcniation of an annual Waste Of |
$6O,ooo,0oo is correct, let him examine the |
basis and he will consider it very moderate.
suppose 100000 Southerpers went North, and |
spent on an averag say $1,000 each, the Aggre-
10 well known that scarcely Southern family
visiting the North prior to the war failed to
spend spend at least $1,000 But say that only $4,000
small estimate), went North every summer.
and recall theit reckless extravaganza, especi. /
81 ally OF those from Louisiana, Mississippi AID
yrhn
ana you can form some iden of how the North
grew rich through the folly of our people.
And' as we said, this reckless waste az il
then was, is now continued ~ "a criminal one
~ course, the scale of expenditure is very
different; but the scale of incou,e is very dif
terept, too, while the principle remains I'M
impoverished people to stay at home and to
eschew foreign humbug; and some of his ideas
are sop so practical that we produce them here
Southern men and women you are an
swerable for the condition of your country | Z
A ms Herable to your own interests, to your pa.
GGFciotisn, to your duty, and to your posterity t
enjoying comfort yourselves and the d
approval OF a good conscience, forego idle RI
v 'r;n ana cultivate your own home indus. q
resorts, Your railroads and your hotels and | n
you will soon realize the Increasing value of ii
own lots, bonds. stocks. and other Investments W
aome, and yoa i'll have direct trade and i'm, | ri
Migration without legislative aid. Sod helms n
nose tnat help themselves. The summer il NJ
PProeahing. How many at Savannah will b,
outribute TO swell Northern Golfers at the cost ri
our own town. During the war we heard Q,
lany men and women declare that they would IL
ever again put foot In New York, or buy any
1ing at the North, and any one who questio OF
the assertion being too vehement and ur
veePing, was denounced as no true South at
,ner!' Have you Kept your vow, you who so in
eolared If not, begin to do it now, net as lei
e result of passion engendered by the war, Co
lt as bounden duty to your country, your. tr;
Ives and your children" - an
This is the keynote to renewed prosperitv cal
'end at home. Build up our own cities and col
easure resorts with the money we have Law of
led-nevef to come. back ia any shdpe-on for crt
IN hnmbug. If home is uncomfortable from wo
:. 800 IA Ees6 10 wanted and change be User
s 91eu' nave we not variety enough at home : dos
here in Alaboma and Louisiana alone, we fnrI
We variety enough TO please any and nil car
n $500 GO CONSEQUENT with tnelr pockets. ma
tering places, all having the finest bath q
and the best eatables all having as pra
- - 80 "HSSu2 1no as good accomnoda- estt
ps as any Northern sea resort, and lacking The
~ .ot eSE'cIous snow and provocatves to l m
gSSG AAOhoJ OuuL VIII NCcCr back 10 he for