The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-05
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
SUGAR PRODUCTION AND SURE RE.
SUITS FHou A PROPER IEvEE
SYSTEM.


The department ~ Agriculture seeking
information ANA II II Contained
In the FeIIewins Interview.
The Department Of Agriculture AZ Washington
has addressed 10 various sugar planters In this
stats 4 letter, OF which the following IL copy,
and which seems 10 indicate that the government
IL about 10 wfestie with the questions Of
CAPITAL ys. LABOR.
The letter IL az follows
DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE,
Washington. u. u, July ~. 1877.
Mr.. y. q. Barbour, Home Place, plaquenines
Parish, La.
ss.-1t IL earnestly desired go far az Il IL poe
eble, by the aid OF the Department. 10 give Ell.
enlargement 10 an increase In The production oil
sugar, that We may save the millions Of dollars
that annually no elsewhere for impcrtatiops. y.
We have coil and climate adapted To The
growth Of cane inferior 10 none, aud should, III
fact II proper attention were given TO this indus.
try. supply the markets of the world with sugar.
VIII yon give souf attention and valuable espe-
Renee 10 the subject, aud advise me how the De-
partment can best promote this interes7 Very
respectfully, WM4 O. IHDUO,
Commissioner.
The gentleman 10 whom tbe letter 10 addressed
wascalled upon yesterday, by representative Of
the DEsoenAr, and, In response to Inquiries,
Statnu tnAE
rae ahEAr OBSTACLE
TO saRar raising was the insecurity Of and want Of
evees 'Let The Government take the levees
under lie especial charge" said be, "and In two
or three years the production Of sugar would be
double The present yield"
lie knew or plantations of from 5000 TO 1000
acres. Of which but from 900 to 900 acres could
be made productive. ewing 10 the ovefGows:
whereas with complete levee systeni, which the
United States government only could maintain,
every acre TN those plantations eohld be made
aodtdbtetor sugar planting,
Why, said he, the statistics chow that for the
year 1876 the people OF the United States paid
ever si01, 900 for imported eugaf, and during
that year 100000 hogsheads OF sugar aud AZ, 0O0,-
900 gallons OF syrup were imported. when this
State nj one could,
WE'RE HHE LAMBS pRofBcTEB,
raise enough 10 supply the home demand and II
necessary export sof,ie 1
/ shal embrace these ideas, said The gentle
man. In my reply 10 the letter yon have ID your
shell throw Ia few hints that the construction
and repairs OF the lsvees by the government
would 20 great ways towards solving for time
at least the labor question.
"Huw do you make that OUT" Inquired The !
DEMpbRAr representatives
"Why, str was the reply ''were the govern |
nient to assume the construction aud repair Of |
the leveea, that work alone would give employ. |
"
laborers Then, supposinE the evees completed |
there will have been reclaimed Ii this Btate
OVER MILLION ACRES
Of the finest sugar cane producing coil there IL |
Ia the world. immediately capital will Geek In.
ysss n those snd and they VIII be
are now but few sugar plantations the
reclama lion Of the land would opsn up scores Of
them, and each would require from twenty-five
to fifty laborers the year round. Thus the labor
uefaftIA HtJ In
drained and cultivated, and instead Of importing
sugar u would not be three years before this
State weald produce sugar enough
no SUPPLY THE RATION
and have some TO spare
Then, continued the Intercepted, you would
find that you would want here IN New Orleans
from fifteen TO thirty first class eugar refaeries,
giving employment FOR four months Ia the year
TO AZ many hundred laborers
The lands reclaimed would also supply all the
lumber needed FOR manufacturing purposes, as
there are hundreds OF thousands OF aores Of land
containing the best timber Ii the country, and
that, then. being accessible you would ace CAPT.
tai Invested here In oil kinds Of manufacturing,
wagons, powH, furniture OF every description,
and almost everything else In the manufacturing
line, would be developed here In no time, and all
OF your idle labor wonld find employment, az
would skilled labor, aud you'd find that the de-
insnd would increase 40 rapidly for akilled and
common labor thai you would have
TO DRAW ON THE NORTH
FOR eonie Of her surplus. The North lie fully sat.
ished, now shat Louisiana and the South can
sake care OF itself without baronets, and You
would End plenty Of Northern capitalists esetipg
longing slances this way, was IL not that one.
half OF the State is subject TO overflow.
The conduct Ut the people from the Nth Of jan
nary last, continued the speaker, to the present
date, has satisfied everybody in the North that |
they are more capable OF eelEgovesnment than
even some of the Northern Statee, and now that
the scales are taken from the eyea Of the North
ern extremists
THEY AaE CONVINCED
that they should have given this State lie own
government years ago. Why. they even sent for
the troops to put down the mob riots In the West
and left this city and State
ESTrREIy UNPROTECTED (9) {
by bayonets, and even then there wasn't tbe
eltghtest indication OF riot, outbreak strike or
ANYTHING else bordering on disorder, aud that hae
SATISFIED the whole, country Il nothing else ,.
couiu, that the people here was the government
and that by common accord almost, they deter
mined. AFTER the United States authorities had !
determined to give them trial, that nothing but
PEACE AND ORDER SHOULD REIGN. !
"lou are going beyond the sugar question:, q
remarked the interrogation. y
Yes" remarked the planter, "but Il al, goes n
together. The President tried the experiment Il
In letting the people choose their government. Q
and found IL worked TO charm, and he is 90 v
well satisfied with his experiment that believe Q
ne will now do all he can for the South, and espe-
cAlly this State. We're he ia his message to b
recommend that the government should control !
and manage the levee systsm, II would have
great effect aud IL Congress adopts euch views b
within three years after the system lie completed.
you Will not see pound OF sugar imported at q
this port" q
Here tho interview ended, and the .'inter-
we sed' began his reply to the letter from the a
department OF Agriculture. g
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