Louisiana capitolian., 1881-11-12
IMIIYGRATION.
An Interesting Letter ON the Sub
ject.

IM5IIGRATION.
An Interesting Letter ON the Sub.
ject.
EDITOR CAPITOLIAN = Your fire.
quent articles on the subject of immi-
grafton and the persistence with which
you uphold Louisiana and her great
resources, leads me to offer some
hints to strengthen you and aid you,
| if possible, in your efforts to further
the interests of the people of the
State. As a preface to what
II will have to say on the sub
lject, you must submit to the remark,
that, when a paper works for the
| good of a community with the deter
mination which has characterized the
| |CAPIToL1AN from the day of its birth
to the present moment, and | believe
never failing in any work it has un-
dertaken, it is entitled to and should
receive the consideration and conf
dence of the people.
| Your recent little trip into Texas
has convinced you what have long
believed. and which your partner,
Mr.. LeSueur perhaps knows, that,
take Louisiana as a whole, it is by
far more desirable place to live, has
greater resources, combines more ia
cilities for making a living and accu-
mulating wealth than Texas and |
may say any other State in the Union.
have "been about" some in my lite
though lay no claims to being a trav-
eler, and l have found no section OF
coantry in the South which is more
inviting to me in it's general aspects,
than the State of Louisiana. Other
States, however, have taken the lead
of her in railroads, manufactures and
: immigration. This no doubt, in a
great measure, is due to the so-called
reconstruction measures and rotten
2 radical administrations and military
? usurpations under which the people,
for ten or twelve years, were forced
to live. And since the advent OF
those who are legitimately entitled tc
control the governmental affairs, II
has taken all the energies and capital
Q that could be mustered up to recu.
y perate and restore them to q norma
condition. But it seems to me thai
u the time is when Louisianians have
. it in their power to rise from theil
+ recumbent position and step out up
on the high road Of prosperity ant
greatness.
! 70 take a horseback ride over eacl
e parish in this State, one would b'
surp,ised to see the thousands upOl
II thousands of acres of the most fertile
: laud-, to be found on this continent
" lhn idle; bringing in no revenue
dom no one any good, but burthen
ii to thn owners, cankers upon their en-
h crsics, their labors and their pock
a cts. You ask if these lands are TO
is salt oh, yes, all for sale, can b
e, bought almost at your own price
~ But who is the owner g Don't know
How isa man to get it, Don't kno,
m and 80 on. As an illustration of wha
Of | M an | would say that a.man NOV
e, ed to Baton Rouge year or so ag
IS and after being here a few months h
L liked the place and people so vel
he concluded he would try to pul
u tat vacant lot and build on il
d III new there were hundreds {
u her in the corporate limits OF th
cilA ut who they belonged to, wha
~ wen The prices of them and coul
u th-, pe bought, have ever since bee
m pohzIug questions. He, searched th
as ci'g apers in vain for adFertiseme nj
Hlucements to purchase, and
!. loss to know to whom an
will one go to buy vacar
do not wish you to think th
man has authorized me to ai
for one, but am telling yo
isa fact and wish to suggest
eaders that if any of them hav
lots for sale and feel any in