The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-09-11
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THE PLANTERS OF RAPlDEs PARISH.

mess in the nation, lays in the reopen jr
ing and eultivating the original plan o.
tations of the South, as she does and p
can produce the staple of manufacture a
and commerce for all the world, and n
the help to do it could come from the Z
capital and enormous labor supply of =
the North and South; prospecting large =
~ those carrying out the enterprise. f
and by re-employing millions of labor, s
would pacify the elements of evils that
are threatening peace and civilization, {
and the powers Of the earth. Being
idle and without money the people are
planning mischief to be feared; then
their employment just now would also
send them into the diminished markets
of the world, with many as consumers
of cotton fabric, having been long
without employment and without
money, they have ceased to be consul
mers to any former extent, which les
sens the demand for fabric, and is pull
+. ling down the prices of the staple with
it. Now, triple crop would put the
mills of tho world into increased mo-
ton, calling millions of idle operatives
into use, furnishing them with means
to obtain what they have 80 long need
ed. Increasing demand would lessen
I the supply, and send the factories Of
the world in competition to the cotton
exchanges for staple to meet it. The
laboring and operative classes are the
largest consumers of cotton fabric, and
: being Just now out of employment are
s utterly without the means to enliven
trade. The rich and wealthy are not
consumers to any great extent-silks,
/ linens and woods being mainly re-
quired and used by them, which sta
4 pies of production have not, you will
find, suffered such great depression as
our own. That Northern capital has
not sought such investment with US,
nor may never, as they cannot be so
wondered at, can live and wait for
more congenial enterprises, but that
it's overwhelming labor supply, feeling
present want, does not flock to US fol
employment, argues something wrong
We have written and waited for them
in vain; that regions of very small anc
no commercial production, should com
mand labor in excess of its needs, will
every acre under tillage, over regions
z like ours, of large commercial produc
ton, without labor to cultivate ON
acre in forty, argues something NOR
than mere climate or social objection
it argues, perhaps, that men will no
SO easily and quickly break up the tie
of home and country, without othe
wish to do so than the mere demand
want sacrificing these, with othe
things, IN adopting different homes
they are pretering to stay on and hop
on, looking always for better times
they have taught to look on the prom
ises of law and the care of parties
Men enga4 Led in other pursuits, traine
and skilled, furnishing the needs of Il
world "as it is" will not be induced
change their life for different ways
making bread, and harder one; ;
they do not wish it, perhaps, just ye
and ifthe world should 60 on as 1t
then their place in the worlds indrl
tries should not he left untitled. I'll
we ask for it in vain and may ask
decade longer, not to get it is explal
ed, and will coneinue to be, by thu
continuing to do as we are doing, sta
ing in their homes waiting, and fro
time to time rushing to the polls loo
ing long and earnestly afterward
the aybreak of better things. SO
remedy comes not from capital and
Dor supply of the great North, thou
we should ask till we are hoarse
Parties and politics with an iudus
worthy of better success, are mar
ing to the front with their myrage
hope. Missing no chance for the loa
and. fishes, they promise ever~th
and with the CONFINEMENT" of pl
forms and conventions, stand up
grapple with things they never und
stood. Their part offers us bar
field of hope for the future. Tbrol
them is not the way out of trout
they have ever been the bane ;
curse of nations, making promises
the hopes, breaking them to the ne
succeeding always in accomplish
great personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ana
depletion of treasures. "fhe worl
governed too much,n says a good {
and it seems that it is, for the mu
tudinous enactments of the last TIVE
wears have hurried the nation tow
ruin with such accelerating speed
TO gather momentum deties the p
ers. Archimedes proposed to cf
the diurnal motion of the earth. 4
il is said and believed that none
greater lever that even that, ant
q dernier resort, with anxious back
they propose to use it to lift out
frozen sun of prosperity. Sevent
years bowling on the outside, se'
teen years swaying on the in, has
produced one man or measure that
fostered or built up production.
ating fictitious prosperity by en-
ments endorsing manufactures, '
monopoly and tariffs /; subsidi