St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-09-11

to say: why toll so hard, and forget
that charity begins at lomee Why raise
cotton to buy only meat and bread,
our heads, the immense profits to which
we should be entitled? Have we not
ground, brick, lime, timber, lumber,
machinery, activity, industry and brains
enough to cause to be erected the most
magnificent palaces in which liking
cotton ever dwelt9 and if we cannot,
now, handle in the proper way the deli
cate tissues and fabrics, can we not call
to our aid, as associates the skillful me-
chanics of the old world, who would
show themselves eager to respond to
our call !
Planters of Louisiana, our soil pro-
duces the Sugarcane and tie time has
come for us to become the owners and
the directors, on our own soil, OF the
sugar refAeries. Our interest demands
it. The prosperity of our State and
City requires it. The interest of the
whole people of this Great Union inn
peratively commands it. Taking for
granted that we can sell our pnre cane
sugar for s cents per pound, when the
people now pay 10 to 12 cents forlt, (not
knowing whether they are buying the
adulterated article or not,) we would
secure to them at once, an annual say
ing, on the total consumption, oil over
thirty million dollars which now go into
the pockets of spcculatorS!.
Again we say; our soil produces the
cotton and the time has come when
cotton goods Of all descriptions should
be and must he manufactured!
Fellow citizens, listen! thousands Of
voices in our great city, once so pros.
porous, are loudly calling for work :.
Have we any to give them?
Thousands of feeble women are daily
wasting their energies over work which
hardly keeps them from starvation.
These women may be our mothers, or
our wives respectively. They may be
our sisters or the betrothed of our heart.
Is it not highly time to see whether
something can be done to better their
condition
Yes, we proclaim it loudly and wish
our voice to be heard by every member
of this deserving, yet Frustrated COM
munty.
The time has come to bring forward
and to scatter over the markets of the
world, the hidden treasures Of our Ell
Dorado.
Our rice, inferior to none, should be
found within the reach of every house
wife.
Our inexhaustible supply of paper
stock is now needed, called for, and
should be made available. Our dried
and crystalized figs should be ready to
fill up the shelves Of every grocery i'll
the land. Our oranges should be ship
ped by the millions. Our early vege-
tables should be found in due time, in
every western or northern market.
/ 4 Il al
own meat, and have plenty OF the latter
to spare, besides. Does not Europe call
+ for it?
Even the high priced tea, brought
over to lis from distant land, should
) be grown and prepared by us. Does il
| not grow luxuriantly on our soil, and
for its ultimate preparation for ou1
market, can we not secure the service!
| of competent and skillful foreigners
+ We should drink our own wine, ralst
: our own raisins and preserve our owl
7 fruit.
| The innumerable minor industries, sc
ably conducted under the patronage O1
! woman, should be rapidly developed.
Henceforward, let the dense smoke
+ of our factories, rising high into the
air, temper, through the summer, the
4 rays of our southern sun, aud shielt
+ unacclimmated working man while thu
t sea breeze, gently waiting it's perpetua
L fan across our land, shall cause pleasan
dreams to hover around his tired form
i, during his MONDAY nap.
!, Let all the elements of cheerfulDes!
r and comfort unite to remove from thu
t immigrant, while awake and at work
all fear of danger, and let the pleasan
q thought be conveyed to him that, il
f spite of sensational reports, there is nj
q country in the world more healthy tha,
S Louisiana
Merchants of the Crescent City, VIII,
j, should you not become the kings OF tn!
2 immense trade, the channels of whicl
} nature has delineated and which TIN
Y busy and Industrious hand OF man i
entertain this feeling of despondenc.
) abont the present, when the present il
e pregnant with brilliant promises? ? VIII,
e nOurish this anxiety about the future
!. when the future has in store, for you, i
= you only wish it, treasures which shall
n iii your Golfers to overflowing? Shak
q off, at once, this spirit of apathy, indIf
D ference and egotism remember tha
O a drop Of ,rates is nothing, but hundred
of millions Of drops, fill up the Missis
IS sippi River, and cause it to overflow it
v banks in spite of all our efforts, and t.
e spread it's waters all over the land. LIE
: each one of you pour one drop into tn
e vast cooperative organization now hein!
J. formed and, ere, long, You will find tina
It your stores will prgyc too small t
e contain the goods needed, and thai tn
: present number of your clerks will no
; be able to successfully carry on you
d business.
n Men of wealth, capitalists. who d.
Y not know what to do with your money
9 why bury it in per cent bonfs, am
e then sit down and complain dolefnll
n that there is nothing to be done. 1nves
a small portion of your capital in our or
n ganization and soon that fraction, b.
g the large interest it will bring you
Is shall draw every dollar you posses
t from the United States Treasury, wher
e it ia not absolutely needed, to seel
) more profitable Investment, thereby in
j. creasing tenfold the prosperity OF you
= State and city.
n Brass and iron founders, machine ant
t millmen, without hesitation throw il
contributions because it is to you tina
n must be entrusted the great work o
|. renovation. Let the capacity OF you
g mills be INCREASED. Let your labarer
+ be more numerous and get better pay
y Seek ont and place in your establish
O ments the ablest mechanics and work
IS men the world can produce. Pay then
q literally talent is money. 1t we wis
Y to succeed and triumph, we must hay
talent, and plenty Of it. Once on th
IS road to success, money to pay with shal
: be plentiful.