New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-11
VALUE OF GOOD REPUTATION.

| Orleans should stand as favorably as any
| other market for the fall trade. Will this
| be the cases Scarcely. Our commercial
rivals will turn deaf ear to the correc-
| ton while they profit by the rumor. a
ho:e! keeper a! Niagara may ente' obse'
queousiy and say. bad news from New
Orleans, sir. The fever has broken out
| very strong there. though the people do
al! they can to concea! it." Then the
family of the New Orleans visitor pleads
10. a few weeks longer, and papa draws
; for al additional thousand obe expended
abroad.
4 Texas OF Alabama merchant learns
tie news from his Philadelphia merchant.
ana is advised by all means to buy his
STAPLE goods in that market and. order his
groceries from Baltimore. by way OF Cin'
c:nnati, in which last city he lays in his
wood and iron work.
The land agent teieg:apLs Germany
tina. the yellow fever is raging in New
| Orleans. and recommends that the in.
! migrants shalt come directly to the Secsho
reserve.
These are all common devices to pro.
mote ones own interes. by publishing
statements to the prejudice OF COM
pe:itor; but this is q small item OF the
injury inflicted upon Louisiana by the
Misrepresentation OF her condition.
Take the ruinous state Of her securities.
the equivocal obligations Of her railroads.
the repeated inability of her chief city to
psy its employees, the reported decline OF
he. produce receipts have these facts
tendency to induce the Investment of
capital2 Reflection teaches Us that there
are many other points OF investment equal
~ attractive and regarded as more safe.
It should not be forgotten that our city
has lost its position as a special market.
Formerly it was the only place at which
the produce Of the West could be export
ed, or at which groceries Or cotton could
be purchased. Now all these cenmodi-
ties may be exported OF imported. bought
OF sold a: a dozen ports. New Orleans.
before the cross railroads were opened.
handled fifty per cent Of the whole cotton
crop; now she handles We may say about
forty per cent. Western tobacco has de.
ciined to twenty per cent Of its previous
|! figures.
There is another serious drawback upon
the State and city prosperity. A condi-
! ton Of political turbulence has prevailed
here without parable! i'll the United
States. It does not matter who is to
biame--the fact exists. Out of this social
warfare has grown a dread on the par: Of
people who are not with the local ma
! iorisy. It may be supposed that if man
purchases productive farm he will bear
! with anything rather than give it up. 1t
it mistake. American women have a
say in the selection of home.
They wish to rear their children
with certain advantages Of So
! ciety and intelligence. Suppose the
family of al immigrant. whose politics do
! not suit the neighborLood. are treated
! with GOODNESS or disrespect. This family
is invited to no socia! assembly. it is in
cluded in no charitable enterprise, the
children come home from school with re.
ports Of indignities. Thi, is no American
home: and sooner or later this family will
seek some more cougenial location, espe-
cialiv when the wife and infants do not
know a. what moment the father may be
shot through his window or from ambush.
We must add the terrible and causeless
assassination Of men uuarMed and pro-
tected by a safe conduct. What was
their ottense' As officers there was no
imputatiou of wrong. As citizens they
had made a prosperous community.
Their OWL fellow citizens had borne with
their association during the years that
had passed. Strangers who did not know
then. personally came from a distance
and put these unarmed men to death un-
der the sanction Of guarantee. Exclud-
ing official malfeasance not alleged-dis.
missing fears of injury at their
hands. disproyed by the fac: of
thei. arrest III the midst Of their
friends, there can be but one cause as.
signed. II was their politica! opinions.
For this ofense were these men slain.
Now can Americans comprehend that
there i. land within the shadow and
and folds Of the national flag where the
right of political opinion is no: sacred.
To migrate into the most fertile portion of
Louisiana involves, in tie opinion Of
people at distance: I. DANCE. OF life.
2. Social os.racism Of families, 3. De-
NAL of political opinion.
We have cited sufficient causes why,
when migration and immigration is pour
ing across the Mississippi; it avoids Lou
isiana. To these causes may be attrib-
uted the departure Of many from Louis
lana who are not permitted to live here.
Such is political intolerance. Capital,
enterprise, industry are driven away.
Hatred. violence and terror rule society
No social cooperation can be expected, or
will be permitted among those SO COM
pleteIy separated. The favor Of the na-
ton, as manifested by amnesty and aims
is turned away-nay, it is converted into
indignation. Mlgnanimity withheld the
power 70 punish. 1t was misunder-