The weekly Louisianian., 1874-07-11
WHITE AND BLACK LABOR.
THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF
FANAT1c1sM.

to render cooperation, upon the
kindliest terms, the necessary con-
dition for the protection and adj
vancement of the welfare of each.
As labor and land must be united,
that each may be productive to its
owner, and as trade and commerce
assume an exchange Of values, SO
we have always believed, that the
permanent content and happiness
OF the people, no less than the
largest growth of the State, re-
quired an interchange Of opinions,
and amicable relations as necessary
thereto, by the white and colored
citizens Of Louisiana. We have
therefore always deprecated any
political movement that looked to
the organization Of a'party based
upon color Or race. Tho party SO
organized can only be %justifable,
when made in absolute self-defence,
and when organized we can hardly
conceive of its control under such
circumstances as not to work i'll to
the community. The vicious tenn
per inspiring the organization Of
the White League is already crop
ping out in the form Of practical
suggestions, which must, if adopted,
breed bad feeling and produce
actual suffering in the State. The
Picayune, with all the leading
White League journals, following
the suggestion Of an imported
statesman known as Todd, of st.
Mary, proposes to destroy the in
dustries of the State by disturbing
violently and viciously the relations
between labor and capital. It sug-
gests that all the colored laborers
now in the employ of white men
merchants, traders, planters, or
others in the city and in the coun-
try, be discharged from service, and
turned adrift without employment
and without bread; and that, too,
because these colored men are Re-
publicans and not Democrats, and
have dared to show their manhood
and title to citizenship by doing
their own political thinking and
voting for men who represent their
views. This strikes us, even if
practicable, as o very monstrous
Observation-Disclosures and too sell
fish to meet the approval Of the
white man, who either understands
his own rights or respects the rights
of others. The era of personal and
political freedom, finds the colored
race without capital in the form
either of machinery, lands or money,
and they per force, as a class, must.
for the time being ct least, earn
their bread BY the sweat Of their
brows; and the man who. says, on
account of their political opinions,
they shall not work, indirectly but
surely says, they shall not eat, and
the men who, for q political differ
ence, would take advantage Of their
unfortunate necessities, while en-
crying from personal bondage, and
by starvation force upon them the
abandonment of their honest po-
litical convictions and the imposi-
ton Of political serfdom, have the
hearts, and need but the opportu-
nifty to become the practical robbers.
But this monstrous scheme is not
feasible. There is a surplus of white
labor in the city, which might be
utilized to supply the places pro-
posed to be made vacant by the dis
charge of the colored workers,
though it is questionable whether
the idle white men who complain SO
much Of the favors shown colored
laborers, would work at the current
prices, if even the opportunity was
offered. But in the country-upon
whose products the city lives
without whose staples of cotton,
sugar, rice, corn and meats, the in
dustries Of the city stand still, and
her sturdy sons walk the streets in
idleness-has comparatively no
labor, that would be adequate
or reliable for the purposes Of pro-
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