New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-19
THE WAY TO PROSPERITY.

The way to State and national pros
perity is through the labor and economy
OF the people. If they are generally pros
perous-made SO by productive labor
the State and nation will partake of that
prosperity. Speculation in merchandise
and politics may occasionally make indi-
viduals prosperous, but it requires vast
deal OF hard work and frugal management
to build up fourishing State The New
England States are examples of what in
dustry and economy can do for people
not blessed with the most fertile soil or
genial climate. They are all hourishing
States, because the great body of their
people have rendered themselves indie
pendent by labor and do not strive to
make their living by politics. Farming
in the New England States is made profit
able Notwithstanding much of their soil is
sterile and rocky and the season for plant
ing short compared with the planting
season South. But the people in the New
England States are enterprising, and have
built up large manufacturing interest
that gives labor to toiling thousands
throughout the long winters that are ex-
perienced in that section of our country.
Fishing is also rendered a profitable
branch of industry there.
In paying a visit to New England
farm it is common thing to find the
farmers wife alone in the kitchen pre-
pairing dinner, while the daughter may be
weaving and spinning, or tending to
household duties, the sons to farm labors,
and the father working in the blacksmith
shop or lanyard In this way the family
manages to get along with the work
of the farm without hiring help, and
consequently thereis no expense incurred,
and what is raised is clear of debt and
adds to the prosperity Of the farmer.
This is the rule in the New England
States, and they are thus made to flourish
And it is so in most of the old free States
of the Union. It is in these States that
Republicanism fourishes best, for the
simple reason that the people obey the
laws and do not attempt to make politics
their only mode of living. As a general
thing, peace and good will predominates
in such communities, thus okviating the
necessity for an expensive police or mill
tary force to keep down turbulent displays
made at the expense of taxpayers.
When the people of Louisiana and other
Southern States learn to be alike indus
trious, economical, enterprising and law
abiding we may hope to see them also on
the way to speedy and substantial pros
perity and happiness. They are blessed
by Providence with natural advantages
that our New England brethren do not |
possess in the way of farming We have |
a more fertile soil and far more genial
climate. Besides, the leading products |
are far more remunerative to labor than |
the leading products Of any other Sec
ton of the Union. There is a mint
of inexhaustible wealth in the cotton,
sugar and rice crops of Louisiana,
to say nothing of its great facilities for
stock and fruit raising etc., and its i'm
mense resources in mineral and timber pro-
auctions. But in order to reap the great
benefits that have been placed within their
reach by the bene6cent Creator of all things
they must go to work and by a proper
government of themselves contribute to
heir own well-being, and when they have
lone this they will have placed the State
ruly in the way to prosperity. A united
fort in this direction, followed up as en-
as our professional politicians
low follow politics, would soon relieve
'ur people Of their poverty and place