New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-25

d bat makes people take their children fro
10 the schools. All these imputations up
10 the moral and physical Inducements
Louisiana operate to. make immigran
take long detour to avoid coming into
passing through a. State in which riots a
represented as being epidemic, and whe
freedom Of opinion is punished With soci
] prescription. New Orleans now beir
y brought into rivalry with many cities
= the: East and West for a patronage ont
. her exclusive property, those rivals circ'
: late every possible report to her. prejudice
Euterprising merchants are kindly advise
+ to 60 West. Merchants are told that the
can buy goods ON better terms and of be-
ter quality in the Western or Norther
markets, and insurance agents of Europ
at least-raise the rates on traveller VIII
! would take..the extra. risk of visit t
} Louisiana.
The only use which the politician ha
for city thus represented as dead is Il
dsmonstrate upon the cadaver. The dis
orders Of Louisiana are magniied to fur
nish a rational example An exaggerated
representation. Of the public debt .ani
taxes is published. Those who hav.
properly to sell in other States say to thu
emigrant, -:Doat carry yors capital
there: The corruption and frauds Of the
State eosernment are placarded by the
Epolticiah. Il care not, said an eminen.
St Louis miller in answer to a proposal
to send bis SON to open a branch house
here-~1 care not what may be tho bust
ness inducements. /. would expose. no
son ofmine, to the contagiop Of such a
state Of society as is said to exist among
YOU" To attract capital and enterprise,
business men advertise as favorable con-
dition' of affairs as possible. To secure
pohacsl intervention, the politician exag-
geates and publishes as widely as possible
all the local evils. The rivals Of New Or
leans repnbliah the worst accounts Of the
city and prove them by the political resi-.
dents Of the city, =. e.. n
One of the most curious results OF this
Misrepresentation apd prescription has
been this: Foreigners and American citi-
zens have been repealed and expelled ffom
Louisiana. There has been of late lit
eral'y no immigration of these people
into, our State and city, II may be i
doubted whether. the immigration of
whites into New Orleans would balance
the. emigration Of whites from this city. |
The white numbers being in 1870 14O, s2s
and in 1875 Ia. 72s the gain of 1898 would !
be about at the rate Of six per cent for
The decade. .This does not exceed nor
NAL rate increase: The increase of the |
,oaored race even in this city is shown by
'he same comparison. 50; 4sO.in 1870 and
'7,e47 in. r75., Here is an incsesse in
ne ratio of about twenty-eight per cent on
he decade. The effect of '.nationaliz-
ng" the troubles Of Louisiana has been far
'reater in the country parishes. 1t works
hus: The White League first runs off all
he white. people whom they do not like. !
hey are not replaced by white people
7hom the White Leagues do like. These.I
'hite people abroad can read ali that St. /
.ouis and Philadelphia says against our
ity and State, and that our politicians
ouch for. While immigration is thus
rrested by the politicians, next, the
lanters who have .b,t one srable acre
, twelve under cultivation need labor, SO
icy go or send to.yirginia, Tennessee or
Georgia, ana import some thousands of
olored voters.
The politicians. not only diffuse the
ander Of every business interest in the
tate and oity but they actually aid the |:
epublican party in keeping away many
no might vote the Democratic ticket
i'd in encouraging the extensive immigra-
on of the colored people who all vote
lie Republican ticket.
In political sense we would be under !
'eat obligations to these politicians, but
e would prefer peaceful state of affairs, !
thss Immigration would come to our 5
tate. without regard to opinion, color or Q
ast condition: II however, the business
I'd conservative interests. choose to let Q
e politicians sacrifice the material in ?
rests and surrender the,polfticar control !.
the State merely. to nationaIize Them =
Ives. into the custcmhouse and the de- 8
lrtnents at Washington, We can not, Of. 7
une; complain. s4l the Picayyne has q
last seen that the politician is riding P
to Office on the ruined interests of the .
operty holder, merchant and mechanic, $
ID our patriotism will not permit US to q q
spute it. <-'." ia
WHY E1AGeERATB? !,
The opposition still ply the patent head '
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