The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-12

been denied. What we desire to call attention
to, now, Is the change In other conditions
which has mud the effect OF magnifying all the
former reasons, besides creating new ones
Some OF the New Orleans papers have
been very fond Of suggesting upon
all occasions ms n solution of the social prob
lens of the city, that the unemployed hum
treds should 20 to the country md engage In
agricultural labor 1t Is SO easy to dispose of
an awkward question In this off hand fashion
But that Is not the true solution. 1t is not
practicable In the first place to remove M
army Of poor people unaccnstoned 70 labor
In the fields and unprovded with tho small
est means OF prosecuting It, and IT Is not wise
to do go. In tho second place, when those same
people are SO much better fitted Tor other
kinds Of labor which ought TO be and must
eventually be- furnished thefn Mt home. Wedo
not In the least oppose the Idea Of im1ulgra-
tion. On tho contrary. we hold that In the
population Of our waste places with an honest
| industrious farming cInss lies tho best anu
truest prospect Of our development. But this
| Ia only to be accomplished by earnest and In
| teigent concert OF action, and meanwhile 1t
| ii the merest and most tllppant folly to talk
| to tho poor of New Orleans about "gotng to
|
| the country"
We stand, however, upon the threshold Of
new ara. Most OF the fnncied and all OF the
real obstacles that have heretofore stood In
tho way of New Orleans as II centre for man
ufacturing capital and enterprise are re-
moved. The miIlers and spinners Of the East
have been looking In our direction for some
1 time past, and considering why the great de-
pot of American cotton should not be made
the great producing point of American cotton
fabrics. They realize The Significance OF tho
ation-see that 1t Is tho metropolis ut which
four Of tho most important arteries Of trade
converge. The Jackson railway and tho Mo
bile railway tapping, as they do. the whole
Of the ootton-growipg region east OF tho Mis-
sissppl river, havo their termini here. The
Mississippi river itself, draining the great
t,ed aud Arkansas river valleys, to say moth
Ing OF Its own bou adless nlluvlal districts.
flows past our d us upon Its majestic
progress to tho sea And soon tho Morgan
4 Railway and the New Orleans Pacific will
place us In direct communication with Texas,
and make that vast and growing empire
tribute to oar peerless future. Here Is not
only the source Ut supply 81 the raw material,
UHL LILO IlEt1lbNIHR k'UHb ipl u ftI LUZ ~
proportion Of tho manufactured fabric. To
establish factories here Ia to possess two
fold advantage In one nct-to occupy the cen
tre Of production and consumption. Against
such factories 1t would be impossible for the
Northern milers to contend Herein Hes the
secret OF the wonderful SUCCESS of ali tho fac
tories which have been lnauguratcd in the
South. and every advantage accrung In thie
respect to Columbus Wesson or Atlanta could
be largely Increased as concerns New Or.
leans.
There Is too much In this subject to be dis
posed OF with any sort of justice in single
newspaper article. We simply wish to an
nollnce that our plan for meeting the question
of the excessive unemployed population O
New Orleans is. not to exile them to the coun
try. but to furnish them with work for which
they are fitted here at home Not to drive
them away to occupations which would bt
uncongeniul to them, and Improbable to theil
!, employers, but to keep them here whore there
ought to be and soon must be employment fo
them and thousands more, thus enabling The
! deserving poor of the Crescent City to realize
practically the prosperity which this long
! suffering and patriotic devotion to the re
dempton of the State richly entities them.