New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-14
CHEAP LANDS,


at war with each other. One column
shows that the State has lost nearly hal
its wealth in real estate and persona
property, to say nothing of slaves, by thu
war. Another column shows that oul
yearly products are greater than ever, anG
another still shows that the agricultural
people receive more per pound for cotton,
sugar and lice than formerly, while the cos;
Of labor, -four, pork, corn and other plan.
tation supplies have not advanced with
the pace that have attended their own
products.
Politicians shed copious tears and pour
out their ink like water over the supposed
losses from depreciation in real estate.
The losses ate usually alluded to ia lump,
in the same manner that they speak Of
the report Of that committee OF which
Morton was chairman" as the ''highest
political tribunal in the world Certain
+ it is, that some large figures have disap.
peared from the census real estate tables
relating to Louisiana, but instead of be.
moaning this as calamity, it should be
classed among our blessings, as it means,
pure and simple, cheap lands. The cost
of land is one of the items to be taken
into account in making an estimate OF
the expenses Of raising crop. And if
planter can buy an acre of land for 50 SO
now. which once would have cost him e25,
we take it he has nothing to complain of.
It would be just as true to say that
a fall in pork from s22 to S13 so,
which occurred not very long ago.
was q circumstance ruinous to the planter,
as to say that cheapening his land injured
him. We take it that an acre of land
will do as much at one price as az another.
with similar treatment in each case The
seasons being equal, it requires SO much
seed and subsequent attention 20 raise n
bale of cotton, and the planter is more in.
terested in the cost of those perishable
which he must purchase or
the price Of labor which be must hire,
than in the value some disintefested party
puts on his place. To every tale Of woe
about ruin to planters from Radical rule,
We respond with q finger pointed at the
four million bale cotton crops. and the
TACT that the sugar lands produce as much !
@ the acre as eve: BEFORE with the same !
featmento ;
when, therefore, these do'efuf reports
re sea: abroad let them be interpreted |
Is advertisements that lands in Louisiana
re cheaper shan ever before and quite as
productive, and further, that their pro.
lucss command nearly one hundred per
ent better prices than they did Twelve or
fifteen years ages that the people Of the
':ate now receive and enjoy the proceeds
f .hei. own labor, which they spend q.
ome. Spendthrift drones and fdlers no
onger spoliate upon the hard earned
ages of the sons of toll; land spectators
an no longer hold vast tracts of land at
Ugh prices, thus placing them above the
Erchases Of moderate means It is easy
} see. then. that there has been no actual
)sS of value in real estate in Louisiana:
lat fancy prices for land have been abol- |
he'd, and man who works with his own
ends. whether on his own farm, or FOR
ire. is the aristocfat OF the era. Let |
lere be more losses Of this description.
ntll every family in che State shall own
little farme and be the master of his
Ha fortunes.