The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-01
NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY. AUGUST 1, 1879.

| dreams OF Patterson and others were sug
gested by waking and sober reality.
| The canal will prove in very truth the gate
Of the universe to those who can utter tbs
Sesame" which shall unlock 1t.
The capitalists Of the United States shoult
protect the interests Of American commerce
by combining with those of England ane
| France to carry out this grand enterprise
which must turn the whole tide of commerce
to our advantage, and In such manner as tt
secure the protection of the only government
competent to guarantee security and stability
to such an enterprise upon the American con
| tinent.
| We are now on the very threshold Of effecs
| ing q junction between the two worlds. En-
br cling oceans, and "Suez Lesseps' has sale
1t, that 1t Is easier to 1anaI the isthmug a,
Chagres and Panama, through fifty miles
| Of difficulties, than lifting O ship over the
Lake Nicaragua, and thence hewinp a way for
her through miles Of rock to the Pacific Ocean
Science ~ s ffafsnl, money will be found
In abundance, put we forsee one great diff
Guilty.
The natives are iDdolent, and Europeans
could hardly stand the climate, working under
vertical sun, through swamp and Jungle,
At one time 1t was proposed that Great
Britain, France and America should each con-
tribute certain number OF cOnvicts. but such
q concentration OF vice would be highly obiec-
tionable. The labor question is one yet to be
solved, and 1t Is one new to Lesseps who will
soon find that he Is not In Egypt, where des-
potism controlled all the compulsory, predeaI
labor that was necessary for the construction
OF the great Suez canal. Negro labor is the
only one, experience has abundantIy testified
that nuGIlra ~,
country, and herein the Nicaragua route pos
sesses 1mmeasurabfe advintage8.
The European laborer. il lured to the work
by dazzling promises. would soon sink
fever of the country did not touch
him, the thirst for gold would, for the
country abounds In mines teeming with tin.
copper, gold and silver, and beside it Is TIE
high road to California. We must leave the
labor question for the present, for it will
doubtless soon have a solution. Our mind is
absorbed in the realization of the grand enter
prise, and the wealth 1t will open I'D to New
Orleans That obstinate barrier removed
which now disunites the two henispheres
pointments and abortive efforts which pre-
ceded and prepared its accomplishment,
New Orleans and Commerce.
New Orleans from her geographical situa-
ton, Is destined to become flrst-class indie
pendent trading port This future hangs
1hlRElJ Du buf GOmplcblOu DI a canal Connect
ing the two oceans. We shall have easy and
speedy access to the Sandwich Islands and
all the islands OF the Pacific group It will
bring US in close relations with Granada.
Ecuador, Peru, Chill and the entire west coast
Of Central America and Upper and Lower
California. We shall be able to trade direct
with Japan, China, India and the Philippine
Islands. Peru, Chill and the whole Pacific
coast will find New Orleans their most conve-
Dor, made 50 bb ,aphfL lRtl draw theirsuDr
For the products OF India we are now COM
peIled to purchase from New York. while by
the Isthmus we shall be able to trade direct,
saving In distance no less than seven thou
sand miles, avoiding also the voyage around
the cape and boisterous seas. Our teas are
now costly, because they are brought from
Francisco, thence by the Pacific Railroad to
New York. and from thence, another 1900
miles to New Orleans, whether by rail- or
steamer. The other route by steam from
China Is via the Indian ocean, up the Red
sea through the Suez canal and Mediterranean
sea, across the North Atlantic to New York,
nearly twelve thousand miles. San Francisco
is much the shorter route by nearly four
thousand mites, but we have to break bulk at
San Francisco for the Pacific Railroad Loss
of time, seamen's wages, heavy insurance,
and delay at New York, all will be avoided by
the transit through the Ocean canal.
Until this canal Is completed we can hardly
estimate the effect it will have In diverting
the COIUUlpTEh D6LWpcH LIE huu w WPSB-
ern hemispheres from the old routes, and the
commerce that it will almost force on New
Orleans. The Isthmus route will give US
fine weather navigation throughout the year.
The dangers Of the navigation Of the Gulf
stream will be avoided; Also our tempestu-
teras and the whole sweep Of the Atlantic
ocean. We can hardly estimate the
wealth and opportunities that it will
bring to our doors. 1t will offer
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try means of employment In the new enter
prises that will open to us. Our young
Creolps are acclimated, cheerful in disposition,
gentlemanly and we'll bred, brave and gen
erous, well educated, expert accountants and
good linguists; they will find those opportu-
mites for industry denied them now from our
stagnant and narrowed commercial relations,
enabling them to regain that wealth and pO-
sition which their honored ancestors have SO
deservedIy held for years past.
It Is easy to see what a wise provision 1t
was on the part of our Convention when they
relieved all manufactures from taxation,
wholesome protection that will encourage en-
terprise and give US from our own furnaces
and foundries, machinery and hardware, and
from our own cotton mills those textile
fabrics so much desired by the peoples inhab-
iting the States bordering on the shores OF
the Pacific. In exchange for our
produce and manufactured goods We
Shall receive from Peru and Chill g,lano
Central America and Lower California, and
all the South American ports, dye woods,
cochineal, gums, hides and a vast variety Of
materials, that in a mornentcannot be named,
In fact, the advantages to our State will be
irnmeasurable, for our whole western country
can hardly resist making the Mississippi the
highway to trade with the United States OF
Colombia.
We have experienced some agitation in our
political struggles; we have rescued our
State from the usurDers and their mfsgovern-
rnent; and now that things are settling down
dustry properly applied to commerce. We
contem plate with healthy and vigorous minds
the altered condition Of our country. and we
hail with heartfelt qualification the promised
start in new direction, and certainly @ al the there e
will rise up in our midst recovered and in
vigorated spirit of trade, and with its new
activity, all that appertains to the business
and objects Of civilized life.
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