New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-07

ests IN the common enterprise. "Irrita-
ton by constant complaint" is as unwise
on the part of the cotton planter as of the
cotton spinner. To quarrel with the COL
ored operative is, if possible, more insane
than to complain of the white card stuffer
or drawing tender. Some of u planters
seem enraged against the negro for having
accepted his freedom. They seem to
wish that the negroes should fall into
utter idleness, profigacy, and even ex-
tinction, in order to prove the impolicy
OF emancipation and the superior con-
servatism Of slavery. The planter should
remember that to expel the labor of the
negro before the substitution of some
other shall have been secured, must have
a very bad effect upon production. It
should not be forgotten that if the South
ern States should become a cottonwood
jungle, inhabited only by roaming
bands of negroes, gypsies and robbers,
it would offer very little attraction to i'm
migrant capital and labor, and might in.
volve the abandonment of the whole
country to such degenerate tribes. In
such case there would be, doubtless, a
great triumph to surviving prophets who
had predicted such results from emanci-
patton, but we should greatly prefer the
disappointment of such wisdom to ever
the temporary ruin of the country.
There was never, in truth, such great
motives, moral and industrial, for regain
ing the old influence of good people and
good counsels over those whose destiny is
for the present generation at least, in
separately connected with that of their
employers. A White Lea guer might look
in upon a barrel house, a dance house or
a gambling saloon with delight, because
it is doing his own work as surely as it
could be effected with the rope and re-
volver. The man who owns a house or
and, or who heads a fam lily, sees in the
decentralization OF labor, whether of the
field or the family, as diminishing his ability
to create a crop, and reducing the value of
his property by the diminished DISPOSE
ton of respectable people to settle in his
neighborhood.
We agree, then, with the Herald CORES
pondent. The first duty and the highest
interest of the employer is to gain the con-
fdence Of the operative-to explain that
they are partners-that as the one is able
to pay wages, SO will the comfort and
compensation of the other be promoted.
The employer should, as far as possible,
instruct the employed in a proper course
of conduct, and protect him from the de-
signs of those who would secure the fruits
Of his labor at the cost of his health and
good name.
The erection of churches, the founda-
ton Of schools, the suppression Of public
follies or vices, would all tend to make
the operative more capable of labor, and
more faithful to all those domestic trusts
which may be imposed upon him. There
are many cotton millers who are wise
enough to advise and to sustain their
operatives as a part of their industrial
family. They find their account in this,
because industrious and orderly opera
tives have always some fund in the say.
ings banks, which relieves them from the
necessity of a strike. The desolute and
desperate workmen, never taught or cared
for, turned over on pay day to the tricks
or temptations of those who covet his
wages, is prepared to attack his employer,
to avenge himself against a reduction of
wages for which the employer may not be
responsible.
The same partnership exists between
the planter and laborer, and the same
duty of advise and sympathy should be
extended by the one to the other.