The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-27

" here six were bought last. Large crops
IF oats are being gathered, and the corn
crops are the best he has ever seen. Lower
Georgia will soon be the theatreOf an ln-
lustrious, thriving, intelligent and wealthy
population. Everything is coming out
right, and in little time the credit OF that
section will be completely restored" Viz.
ginia. the great battle field of the late war,
has risen from her ashes and stauds erect,
and looks brayely and hopefully to the flu
ture. The Shenandoah Valley, made desc
late by Sheridan, is now becoming q gar
den once more, with every mark OF THRIFT
and plenty. Aud Texasis on the high road
to lasting prosperity and independence.
gone to work to help themselves, instead
of waiting for Jupiter to help them, or for
" something to turn up" If Louisiana
follows such noble examples, instead OF
brooding despondingly over the past, and
looking at the future through smoked
glass, she, too, might become prosperous,
free and happy.
WHITE AND BLACK 1MMIGRANTs.
IfLouisiana would spend as ouch money
in bringing small farmers to this State as
abe spent after the year 1865 in bringing
90 600 colored immigrants to work her cot
ton aud sugar fields-if the and-holders
would unlock their lands, and give men
who are willing to toll with pillow and hoe
a chance to pay for their lands ont OF the
proceeds of their labor, our State would
become prosperous in few years, and
these millions of acres of idle lands would
soon be occupied. Even the State OF
Maine, some years ago, had law to en-
courage Swedish farmers to come to the
poverty stricken and frozen lands of the
Ponobscot, ia latitude ASP. Why cannot
Louisiana do something to bring industri-
GUS men to the rich lands of this State, in a.
salubrious climate, where farmer may
work his hands from January to January.
WHAT ONE MILLION DOLLARS MAY DO.
One million dollars, spent in bringing
families of industrious farmers to the idle
lands of Louisiana would increase the value
of the lands of the State more than twenty
times the cost of bringing them here.
holders of this State, in city and country,
can so we'll protect their fortunes and in
crease them-no wav in which they can
with more certainty add to the value of real
estate in the city, and in the rural districts,
than by judiciously aiding the friends OF
immigration in strongly reinforcing tue
skilled aud substantial agricultural labor
of the State.
SOUND AND UNsoUND PoLICIEs-TEXAs AND
LOUISIANA.
If Texas, after the late war, had adopted
the same policy that Louisiana has carried
| out-if she had expended money on and
experimental with immigrants of all shades
and colors, as field hands, instead of farm.
ers-if, like Louisiana, she had discourag-
ed the Caucasian and showed a partiality
| for the African, and in some instances the
| Chinese, that State would have been ruin
| ed her lands would have been without a
market value, and her people would have
been talking Of leaving the State, as many
of ours are now doing. According to tue
| Texas Almanac, over 100 900 immigrants
arrived at the port of Galveston by sea in
1871 or ~. T6at humber of immigrants
would be sufficient to completely regener-
ate Louisiana.
VALUE OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MIMI
GRANTS.
According to political economists, every
able bodied male Immigrant is worth $500
to the State in which he settles. Consider,
then, what Texas has gained since 1860 in
her addition of over 100000 to her popula-
ton. Ifbut 100, 600 Of these are male, in
dustrious immigrants, she has added $780,
| DOC, 900 to her wealth. This ia SIS 900 900
more than the assessed value of the city of
| New Orleans, and three tifths as much IS
the assessed value of the whole State of
Louisiana. Why do the merchants of New
Orleans and ST. Louis assiduously court the
/ trade of Texas. 1t is because her immi-
! grants have SO increased her wealth and
her trade, that it has suddenly become of
vast Importance of such Importance that
! st. Louis has extended a railroad into the
very heart of the Lone Star State.
! VALUE OF LABOR.
The prosperity of New Orleans has
chiefly rested on hogsheads of sugar, bales
of cotton, and the products of the indus
! tries of this and other counties. The me-
charics erected every store, warehouse,
bank, church, and every other building in
the city. The warehouses and stores of
New Orleans are full Of the products of
agricultural aud mechanical labor. The
foundries and work shops of our cities
have added much to the wealth of our city
and State. Is it not reasonable, then, that
the merchants and capitalists should be ex-
| pected to aid in developing our agricultural
and other resources, in view of their past
| benefits and prospective importance Can
New Orleans merchants do better thing
for the trade of the city, than by aiding the
friends of immigration in largely increasing
the productive Industries and wealth of the
State, thereby creating home trade which
st. Louis railroads cannot tap, and carry
to other trade points
THE LOUISIANA IMMIGRATION AND HOME
STEAD COMPANY.
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