The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-05-14
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We clip the following short sketch
of the Inflated island, Scio, from the
Webster Tribune, published at Min
den, La:
Seio, tire scene of the fearful earth
qnake on the BID inst, is an island of
the Egean group, and lies just off the
coast of Asia Minor. This island is
said to be thirty-two miles long by
eighteen wide. It has population of
about fifty thousand, mostly Moslems
Its chief town is Scio or Castro, which
has population of IA, 500. This town
was built of stone and brick. and is
mostly in ruins. The earthquake APP
isears TO have been most severe at this
town, as the loss of life there was
greater than at any other place on the
island. Scio is claimed to be the birth
place of Homer, the great Grecian
bard, and has been celebrated in his
tory and song for thousands of years
In the year T. G. 500 the Persians
mastered the Greek population for
participating in the Ionian insurree-
ton. For thousand years this island
was the scene of many bloody battles,
and was in turn subjected 10 the rule
Of the Maeedonians, the Romans and
the Mahomn,edans. In 1922 the Scions
joined the Greek revolt against Turkey,
and in seven days more than fifty
Thousand Of them were slaughtered by
the Turks, and the remaining sixty or
seventy thousand inhabitants were sent |
into slavery and the Turks became in
habitants in their stead So the Greeks, |
it is likely, will not grieyo at this
dreadful calamity that has befallen
their enemies, but will rather construe
this severe visitation as a retribution.
Scio is described as being one of the
most lovely and fertile spots in the
world.
About 10000 people are said to be
in want, and appeals for relief have
gone out over the land. Thousands of
these people are innocent of the crime
perpetrated by their ancestors But
if they were guilty, they are still OBJ
jects of charity; they are suffering hn-
man beings. They are the victims of
a fearful and terrible freak of nature.
Every heart should beat with sympa-
thy, and every hand should be applied
TO their relief This is true charity.
Is it not astonishing that so little
comparatively has been done in the
way Of manufacturing in the South
The way to wealth is in manufacturing.
The Northern people understand this
They take raw material worth 10 cents
and work it up and sell it for 100
cents. When will the South--when
will Louisianians learn this secret
this lesson?
10 into our stores and work shops y
and you will find thousand articles
for sale at thousand per cent adj
vance ON the cost of the raw material,
said material being produced in the
South, but manufactured in the North
and sold To our inert and blind people.
Louisiana has the raw cotton, the !
forests, the water, the laborers, the
capital. Why not utilize them Why
be hewers Of wood and makers of cot
ton for the North, when the profit lies
in the manufacturing!
We insist that anything that can be
manufactured pro6tably in any part of
the North out Of material transported
from the South can and ought to be
manufactured herein Louisiana We
contend most strenuously that if there
is money for the Northern manufac-
turer in making yarns and cloth ; in
producing iron aud steel; in making
glass, and furniture. and vehicles, and
all sorts Of agricultural implements, and
hollow ware, and machinery, and tools
ad4so on, the raw material of which
either comes from the South or is
found IN great abundance in the South,
that there is money also for the South
ern manufacturers in the same articles.
IT there is industry and skill and econ
omy in management there must be
profit---there must be wealth. The en-
terprise and drive of the North would
soon convert the South into the rich
est section Of the world Dossier
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