St. Landry democrat., 1881-09-24

-. SHALL IN BAD FIX-THE CITY IN
sEpTEMBER-A HEAVY FALL AND
WINTER BUSINESS PREDICTED.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 10Th. 1881.
special Correspondence st. Landry Democrat]
The medical profession has lost a
valuable and honorable member by the
death of Doctor A. F. Axson who de-
parted this life in New Orleans on
Monday the 18th inst. Doctor Arson
came to New Orleans in 1887 from South
Carolina, since which time he practiced
his profession in this city. From
obscurity and poverty he rose to proml-
nence and affluence. He was one OF the
college in which he was also a professor.
The college was established in Opposi-
tion to the medical department OF the
University of Louisiana, but has since
,.ollapsed. Doctor Axson was in the
sixty fifth year Of his age at the time OF
his death.
The strike which threatened to inflict
A fatal blow on the commerce OF the
crescent City and which temporarily
spread it's black wings over the destiniess
Of the State, has passed and in its stead
law, order and industry now rule
throughout the Southern metropolis
As organized bodies the labor associa-
lions frowned down all attempts at
disorder on the part of their members
and did all in their power to prevent a
conflict. But as is always the case IN
ike crises the quick tempered and hot
headed of the strikers asserted them
selves and the result in consequence
was tumult and disorder, the respon-
sibility for which was laid at the door
of the cotton association, who had to
Dear the brunt Of the situation. The
cotton associations had expressed them
selves in the most emphatic language
FOR an increase of wages as far back as
last March so that the strike inaugura-
ted was a deliberate and premeditated
affair which the factors were fully
aware would sooner or later sweep
down upon them. When the cotton
oeople suspended work and declared
shat they would not resume unless the
price for their labor was increased,
now did the factors, commission mer-
chants and i'd Omne genus meet the sit
occasion was sufficient in itself to ignite
the slumbering wrath of their employees
and lead them to acts of violence and
lawlessness which would have rivaled
n atrocity the labor riots which occurred
a few years ago in the North. The
factors whilst not denying the justice
Of the wages demanded by their en-
ployes, declared that the sole point for
solution which the controversy pre-
1,ented, was whether or not they were
20 he dictated to by labor? With that
arrogance and insolence so characters
tic of capital and it's minions they
literally declared that labor was servile
and that it would be sheer presump-
tuousness on it's part to dictate or to
even attempt to dictate capital. They
denied to labor the right to ask for an
increase Of wages. On the other hand
xsaad adopted tariff of wages which
ssSliey considered equitable and fair and
determined not to return to work unless
their employers acceded to their de-
snands. They had warned their en-
eployers of the impending crisis. Thus
matters stood when the strike began
The ear of capital wss deaf to the
.elamor OF labor. The latter claimed
The right to work at prices which they
considered fair; the latter denied that
labor had any such right. The conse-
It auence was that the strike ragged as ii
never did before in New Orleans, carry
sng with it want and suffering in many
households and threatening to subvert
the city into a reign of anarchy and
a4erroism. That portion Of the strikers
who compose the excitable ones " were
.lashed to fury by the arrogance as
sumed by the factors and spent their
Indignation on those who were temerous
enough to fill their places. At every
street corner from Tchoupitoulas to
the levee strikers assembled and in
4,lulged in riotous demonstrations when
ever strikers passed by. Stones,
bricks and other missiles were thrown at
their heads and often pistols were fired
at the unenviable wOrkmen. AT last
gthe!cloudsibegant to disappear and in theil
stead light came. The chamber of COM
aaerce body composed of merchants
stepped to the front and declared that
the strike must cease. As media
tors they effected a compromise between
the cdntending factions and the strike
.saa,e to an end. Now capital and labor
.sssae once more united, the din made by
.eEse heavy cotton floats resounds once
snese upon the streets; the cotton
-aeesses are the scene of activity and
5Esasiness is on big boom. Thus ends
aaE strikes.
Quarantine at New Orleans will be
raised about the 10Th Of October.
The reseate countryman is now to be
-aae,s an the boulevard, taking in the