The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-08
MANUFACTURES.
INCREASE OF WEALTH AND POPULA.
TON THROUGH STEADY WORK.
manufactures versus Trade--A Compare
SON Of Foreign and American Manu-
featuring and Trading Cities.
PARISH OF PhAQuEMINEs, July s, 1877.

nanWaciures versus Trade-A CDmpart.
son of Foreign ana American Manu-
featuring ana Trading Cities.
PARISH OF PhAouEMINEs, July g. 1877.
Editor Democrat have expressed to you
our idea OF hygiene that prime factor among
those agencies which affect the welfare and
prosperity Of cities the efficient devel :
opment OF proper system of which we look
upon as the most important step in the march
OF Improvement OF tho city of New Orleans.
Second to this. and dependent upon 1t,
IS the establishment OF manufactures In
possess or can readily obtain will permit
Until this Is done 1t Is not probable that New
Orleans will ever have either q large resident
population or increase. rapidly In census,
although railroads should be built from Canal
street TO Behring's Straits on one side, and
from the same point to the coast of Labrador
on the other.
With manufacturers would come populla-
tion which would make New Orleans IFS home
stay there during the year-develop capital
on the spot, and spend It's money at home.
II would not fit dway as It does now when
steamboats, stop running and when railroad
cars come In with empty or half trains, and
then go TO some other point to look for occu-
patton and wages to buy bread but In it's
constant employment would make bread for
themselves, money for the city and strength
for the State.
Population, which New Orleans wants and
the State wants, with its natural increase
would then be here-its evolutions the agent
OF Immediate and permanent profits, positive.
whatever the price Of gold, and It's results
little changeable save through the erosion Of
time
Permanent employment has attractions
that no transitoryiwOrk possesses, and when
the workers feel that they can dwell in
heath and comfort al The gedr, there will be
no lack Of laborers in the harvest.
When New Orleans does this, and the peo-
,..f 4EYs 4. ...l 4. Il
viting to the immigration Of an agricultural
population, not fleeting but permanent In it's
character, we may reasonably expect Louis
lana, city and country, to advance rapidly in
prosperity, and to possess that influence iii
the affairs Of Federal Legislation which
strength of numbers always commands.
The increase Of the population of city Is
taken as q sign of it's prosperity, the reverse
as want Of prosperity. Cities sometimes
advance very rapidly without a healthy basis
OF permanent prosperity, and as rapidly de-
cline when the temporary causes of fnfia-
tion cease to operate. This happens when
towns or cities are made simply depots of
trade, and tho trade Is suspended or drawn
into other channels. OF this we have striking
examples IN the wonderful growth of towns
in the mining districts, which decay almost as
rapidly when the ore fields are more or less
or others found more inviting In
fields, remote. Brownsville, Texas, grew
rapidly during the war as place of transfer
closed.
A most striking example is that of the re-
nowned city OF Venice, whose wealth once
bought sovereigns and supplied all Europe
with Eastern luxuries. Venice rose upon dis
tant trade, but Vasco de CANA sailed his yes
sci around the Cape Of Good Hope into Indas
seas, and Venice stood u poor-house of mar
bic palaces Venice had no manufactures
save those which wrought her golden ingots
into costly jewelry that but few could wear
tttr
had not been invited by. her to develop ifs
treasures in grain to which she could have
turned for suceor when the rayishment of her
commerce by other ports left her helpless
and poverty stricken, She stands to-day in
her decrepitude living evidence Of the neg
lect Of nursing manufactures in a cty's
bosom. We have heard how visions
Of ideal wealth fioated through the
excited minds OF San Franciscan property
holders when the construction of It's great
highway was guaranteed by the |
general government in Its endowment oil this |
road with its hundred millions of govern
ment dollars. With this the road was made, |
and in two years from the time that an Attain |
BIC train snorted In the streets Of the Pacific |
cityd the eitys property fell twenty-five per
cent
Looking over the census and statistics OF |
European towns, one will be struck with the |
differences OF population Of those cities which |
lre strictly depots of commerce. or where |
ect of attention, and those towns where these |
Two interests seem equally fostered, and other |
owns which are in most partdevoted to man
The comparison is in every instance
20 the advantage Of the latter class.
We cannot cite illustrations derived from |
English cities, since the great ports Of Lon
ion, Liverpool, Glasgow and others are liter |
lilly canoDied with u cloud Of mandatory
smoke. But the Continent shows Havre, the
great seaport of the north coast of France
It the mouth of the Seine, as old a town as
he towns OF the interior. It receives produce |
rom all parts OF the world, and forwards to |
he interior by small craft up the Seine, and
slso by rail. While as place of transit her
.mount to little or nothing. Her population
s about 10000; Rouen, higher up, largely
population 100000
Paris, the capital, great manufacturing |
entire, over 100000 population, turning out
wenty years ago over S320, ,OOO, 900 of manu-
actures annually, In snuff alone producing
14,0DO,00O.
On the Mediterranean sea Toulon, an import
eaport, trading largely In -four, corn, salt,
PROVISIONS, wine brandy, OIL etc, but having
5000.
Lyons in the interior, the great silk manu-
acturing city, population 10000. And thus
We might show you Vienna, Munich, Berlin,
BRUSSELS and many. other large cities teem-
ng with manufacturing population, which
ge could contrast with Trieste, Dantzic,
)dessa, Cronstadt, and otherports, which for
Yard immense stores Of freight, but stand
till in population. But not wishing to
rowd your columns, let us come back to
lmerica, and look at the panorama of indus
rial life which is spread before us.
New Orleans, Memphis, Mobile, Charleston,
wilmington, Norfolk and Richmond the
rincipal Southern cities, 1t cannot be denied,
ompare unfavorably In rapid growth and
'ealth. with st. Louis, Pittsburg, Brooklyn,
lynn, Lowell, Springfield, Newark and other
Iorthern cities which we could mention,
lany of which are OF more recent foundation
8 municipal corporations than those men
oned in the South; YET these last are most ,
located as regards commercial ad- 1
They have received and s5ifif1t,tsf I I
n amount of raw produce greatly exceeding
value that which has gone from the places {
18th which they have been cOntrasted But |
le population and wealth of these Northern ,
,wns has increased more rapidly and steadi- {
than those of the Southern towns. We think :
le difference rests simply In this, that the '