Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-10
LOUIsIANA,s GREAT NEED.

LOUlSAANA'S 6kEAI NEED.
1t is with reluctance that we touch,
occasionally, upon the almost thread
bare subject Of emigration. Yet we
feel that Louisiana will but crawl to-
wards prosperity, so long as nothing
tangible is done to attract the emil
grant within her borders.
The overcrop of cotton is reducing
the price Of that staple to figure
that will soon, if il has not already,
become unremuneratiye.
The system, still being adhered to
of raising sugar, cannot as a general
thing, be a success. The situation,
in this connection, ought to demon
strate clearly, that the time has sure
ly come, when the producer of the
sugar cane and the sugar manufac-
turer. must be two individuals.
The sugar manufacturer must es-
tablish himself here and there, in
reomy, well appointed buildings,
supplied with improved machinery,
handled by experienced engineers
and sugar makers, who will make a
certainty every time that the juice
manipulated by them will be made
into first class sugar, instead of dis
| figured taffy, such as the cheap and
incompetent makers too often OBJ
tain, at the rickety mills, which are
stopped half the time, for want of
fuel, cane, or reliable machinery. In
a word, the every day failures, which
swallow up tens OF thousands ofhogs-
heads OF sugar, in useless expenses,
must cease to occur.
Sugar cane must be raised, il the
main. by farmers who will not stake
everything upon cane.
| They must ia addition to cane,
raise stock, poultry. vegetables, corn,
fruit, etc, so that they may have
something TO fall back OH, when some
disaster Details their main product.
/ To a very great extent the cotton
planter is no better off than the su-
gar planter.
The sooner the attempt to adhere
to the system of ''before the war; is
abandoned, the better will it be for
all.
Vast areaes of uucultivated lands
are to he found in every parish, the
juice OF which must remain at NOM
inal figure, unless a demand can be
created.
And there is no way to bring about
that demand, unless additional pop
uIation can be brought there.
/ Our land owners must expect to
remain monarchs of the broad acres
they survey, unless they make Sc
ries effort to attract a proportion of
the great number of emigrants now
arriving at the American ports.
The blowing INDUCED in by the
newspapers has been tried for years,
and it has proved failure.
Money alone can bring about the
desired result. To obtain it there
must be organization.
Every ward, every parish, should
organize its association of members,
rich and poor, who each month will
pay in dues towards raising a large
fund to, if need be, help in transport
| ing the emigrant thither and to see
him through the first year after his
arrival.
| If, the people of Louisiana can be
aroused from their lethargy and in
duced to act in concert in the way
indicated, great change will be OBJ.
served before very long.
If on the contrary, they remain in
the old beaten path, and wait for the
wasted chickens to fall in their open
hands, the complaint of hard times
will become a chronic disease.
Who will lead off in organizing the
Emigration Association of Louisiana
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