New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-23
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN. THURSDAY. MARCH %, 1876.

goods sold all summer by our rivals. We
have no time to argue statements Of cost
and profit on subscriptions, but We tell
u merchants that trade can no more be
conducted without wire and rail than q
crop can be made withou. a horse and
pillow, or a mill run without water. We do
not doubt that if q light rail were laid
down the bank Of the river for cheap and
constant movement Of the people to and
from the city, it would improve the value,
business and social intercourse of the
city immensely. No one can estimate
the value of a railroad system except by
imagining this system taken away from a
city which has heretofore enjoyed its facili-
ties. Destroy the railroads of Chicago
or Baltimore, and the growing fruit would
not wither more rapidly on the cut vine
than would those cities dwindle under
such a calamity. 1t occurred with some
cities during the way, and the reader will
remember the effect of such land blockade.
1t has been some years since a leading
New York paper, discussing railroad divi-
dends, said it was no question. The rail
road communication with the West could
not be abandoned, and New York could
better work the roads like the fire
engines and charge the cost to
expense account than consent that The
should be interrupted. We know
that the Democratic politicians are rather
averse to the construction OF improve
because it may deprive them Of the
cry that 'Kellogg" has driven all the
trade away; but we repeat that unless Dur
business men and landlords build this
and other roads, the tenants will go in
search of ready-built roads somewhere
else. The country people are, of course,
IS deeply interested in reaching this mar
zet at all hours, and should deduct labor
enough from their plantations to do all
he carthwork and furnish the crosst;es.
The citizens and planters should build
and other roads, cost what it may,
md it may be built cheaper than any
,ther road ever was in louisiana. They can
lot do without il. There is an outside and
Incidental Importance in this rapid and
communication with the in
With OF without cause, it is the
feeling abroad that our interior
parishes are controlled by q sort Of po-
itical Arabs. who will allow no one to
abor or live among them unless lis pur- |
uits and opinions shall be satisfactory to |
hem. The many evidences Of lawless |
iolence; the repeated emigration Of
Tomen widowed by the rope or the revol.
er, with their piteous tales of the re-
'uted barbarism which prevails in those
has entirely arrested white i'm
Migration, and turned this fertile current !
ato other States. Perhaps the same ar
ument in favor of the Pacific railroad
It would check the rayages of the
ioux and Comanches; that stations of
iyilized people would create a re-
pect for law aud for property,
nd that the government could
mploy the rail to enforce the laws,
lay be worthy Of consideration. It is
cry evident that the lands in the in
must continue uninhabited and I'M
lltivated, unless soma better reputation
an be secured for the social safety Of the
who may come to purchase or &C.
1py them. Perhaps by running a rail
lrough those communities of such
angerous now as Coushatta and Col
Z, infant settlements may be protected
the rapid transportation Of force.
lch has been the effort Of the Union
ilroad upon the Black Feet and eros
entries, and such is the argument urged
it'll great force by Mr.. Thomas Scott in his
,baustive memorials in favor Of federal
dorsement. There are, however, Incl
,ntal end exceptional results Of a rail-
ad system. The commercial import
ice of such works appeals too strongly
the wants of merchant and customer
require further argument. Let the
anters Of the country, and the land
merchants and mechanics Of the
ty, meet and raise the means to assist
building the road without further post
'nement or delay. The small amount to
expected from the five mill tax IN New
deans, ever if it be levied, must be
rgely supplemented by private suhscrip-
and these should be made by the
ople living along the line Of the road
d near is t%eriniui. Then money will
in home hands, AID will be applied, no
ubt, to their satisfaction. There is no
all street or Dutch ''syndicate" about
PROPOSED SALE OF CITY PROPERTY.
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