New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-01
Homes for the LandIess-EmplOy ymeBi for
ihe pOcf.

| The POcf.
! EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
| New Orleans, for herself aud foI Louis
| ara, needs torr things supremely:
| !. An increase OF direct import trade
| from Europe.
| = Increase of steam communication witt
| the Spanish Main and South America.
:. Increase of trade with Texas and Mex
| ico.
| T. The employment OF the landless and
| unem ployed poor, who fDrm SO large per
| centage OF the population of the city anc
| State.
The question of direct import trade
| from Europe into New Orleans j will not
discuss at this time; nor will now consider
| the imperial interests involved in CONNER
| cial IF ciprOcity between the United States
| and Mexico, Central America and South
| America-a question of vital Importance to
| New Orleans These two matters-direct
trade with Europe and South American
! reciprOcity-may be discussed hereafter
But ask permission to present few sug-
gestions in regard to the Importance of in
creasiDg the trade between New Orleans
and Texas, and through Texas with Mex
co. propose to do so at this time, because
| my plan contemplates the immediate en-
ployment of the unemployed and landless
poor who are now suffering with their
dependent families for want of work. In
order to inaugurate this plan, propose the
immediate organization of a company or
society to be called, THE Industrial
Development Company Of the State OF
Louisiana"
The object of this company should be to
multiply the landed homes Of the State by
giving the head of every family the
chance by his own labor to support his
family and earn homestead farm.
The capital stock of the company should
be placed at $5,000,GG0, and the capi
talists OF the North should be applied to to
take the stock. If such company is prop
erly organized and based on sound, social,
industrial and business principles, and is in
competent and responsible hands, the North
will respond, and the money needed will be
forthcoming.
The foundation principle Of the company
should be small farms, open to settlement
70 all laboring men. without regard to race,
color or creed. These farms should be
located on railroads, because the railroad
forms the vital and vitalizlng nerve of
modern industrial civilization. The land
should be sold on time, and there should be
reserve" 10 order to carry" the little
farmer and his family until he can make his
trst crop.
Ehe operations Of :se r,ops~ed indastsist
development company can be applied at
ence to the Texas and Mexican connection
which New Orleans so much needs. This
company eoEld undertake the eonstFaetioR
Of O railroad from New Orleans inGo TeGas.
making Il paso its western objective point.
such read would strike the International
at Ierne or Dsemoud. giving thereby the
necessary connection with Central Mexico
/. would inte.scct the Texas Pacific ut
Chadburn, in Runnels county, Texas, there
by giving New O-leans an almost air line
0utlp+ : \ r'h Da1iGF rv1 a.
the sGra9 tine tho trade cf Northern ue&-
leo.
ZAe proposed railroad could c0mmtAce
opeTationR on the New Orleans end OF the
work and build veaa. Each section OF Eve
I3ilCs q road could, Gsfast as constructed.
be- populated with thrifty comnunitcs OF
lahGrirg Zrl O, each ulcr occupying his own
little lot O. land, &c in France ard New
Engtand. 3y this ei!aple plan of carryinz
locGl landed development L!ol with IL
eocatracti9n q the rot3, Tie orisinal cari-
tai OF tie company Woul& leu ain on hand,
rEacticaly, as ''s-Hcgye fund" This il D
Icorl tie lact IL localpopu, tion or a rail-
road products loo2} tra4lc md g@oa9nGsl
brsinezs enough u pay for construct i0R
azG yield d profit bcr;des Tie aalei OF
land, aIG61 TO II" local bu incss, Naoale
cone guently reimbur the colp3ly for
the outlay needed for ro1 construction
M lana aeF9lopmtlt
These railroad ndea hol es should ne
oHered on equal terms 10 laboring men of
ell I..ces and all lands. The Italian and
the Irenchm and the Southern freed
mar, as we'll as the German, the Northern
farmer and the white laboring man of the
South, should be invited to participate
equally in the glorious privilege of becom-
ing Independent by their own honest labor.
know the sentiment of Northern capital
in regard to this questoa of the material
rscOnstro octioD of tue South. Any well di
gestea plan looking to The material well
being Ct Louisiana can secure all the money
needed in Phila,siPaia, New York and
Boston. The Northern people have more