The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-03
Don;llosolrbille Gbief,
Two Dollars Year.
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER
Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondents.
New ORLEANS February 3D. 1888.

NEW ORLEANS, February ID. 1888.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Now that Mard Grns has come ant
gone, we have the satisfaction of know
ing, IN reference to our fete day, that tll'
subjects chosen were we'll suited to til,
occasion and to tile ideas Of our visitors
showing that the controlling spirits o.
the affair arranged the representation 81
that while it depicted the past, casts fol
the future were made. 1t is to be hoped
that the labor was not in vain, and that
our friends from afar can now speak in
more favorable terms of our people.
We have been disposed to boast of oul
political economists, and particularly
those belonging to the Prison Reform
Association, but it seems to me bley
rather encourage crime than otherwise,
since their efforts arc directed towards
ameliorating the condition of criminals
and persons living i'll asylnns upon the
public bounty, rather than preventing
such necessity. The true political econ
omist and philanthropist, instead Of tax
ing the Geo. w. Cable side of the case,
should, to orr thinking, attempt to pro-
vide snitable occupation and instruction
for the listless classes, sooner than wait
until they have perhaps from sheer force
of circumstances, drifted from necessity
to crime. And greater would be the vic
tory gained, because Instead Of bringing
back an erring brother into the paths Of
rectitude, it would he saving him and his
family tile ignominy Of the tannt Of
crime. There is more virtue i'll saving
the man from becoming sinner than in
subsequently bringing him to repentance.
We claim to be progressive republi-
cans, but we have IL great deal to learn
from the Old World yet, when we look
at the spectacle of tue May and other
feasts at the great Krupp town in Ger
many and hear Of the Krupp girls
dancing with the poorest latdies of the
yards, Or of the Highland wakes of
Scotland when the ernine aud the buck
skin reel and merry make together and
If aught soTrowful or needing attention
from the well-to-do is brought to light
how soon the brotherhood of malSS uakes
itself felt above the glitter, and tinseI Of
the trinket. -
We often hear Of peoisie bemoaning the
dislike of our youths. to going into
factories and mills, where competency
might be earned, int our American sboy
does not like to be pnt into direct com
petition with an inferior race, and if
these croakers would try their hand at a
little of the same thing themselves they
would understand we'll the repugnanoe
1t is true that most of our skilled labor
is drawn from the Old World, where Mt
the sound of the 5 or 6 o'clock bell in
the evening the working day is ended,
and If the men are needed longer, even a
half-honr counts for a quarter Of day.
This is much in contrast with the foun-
dries, mills and factories Of Louisiana.
where the hands are frequently com
PEELED to give three. or more hours to
their employers without any extra com
pensntion. We believe that if MIR. Cable
and his adherents- don't mean the
see that the labor
ing masses secured their just dues, that
10000 youths now idle, but willing and
able to work, would swell the producing
Of our metropolis, aud that |
crime would he much lesscned thereby.
The sisters, daughters and mothers that
now have to often take the places IF the
sterntr sex, would be better care1qsta, |
and be more abIo to fulfil the position
which they were intended to adore, "the
queens of the household" The homes
of the needy classes deserve much more
from philantIlropists than the cells of
felons. g
The New Orleans Gas Light Company
~ S" "i'o'hSi ''eI"iy against inc
people OF this monopoly ridden town, by |
Purchasing he franchises OF the Slight
and Heating Company, alias tie Water
das Company. Both parties refuse to
state HE purchase price and nothing
tetlnite can be arrived at, but another
Atli'l performance has been gone through
md The old Company control the field.
We expect after ii while, to hear of them
akng under their protecting care the
electric light business also This .iyan-
ic aud FRAUDULENT n:onop ly dictates to
he public, controls courts and acfes
Justice. Yet we still have an idea Chat
We live in free country
A repetition in great .neasna, of the
Weather Of Lass winter gives cause for
.iarm all along the coast, and it becomes
for planters to look well to
heir safe guards, tbs levccs. The news
rom Tie great basin on the west of the
Aiteg'itnles is far from encourAuiilu and
The head waters Of che Platte and
lllssouri are charged to au equal extent
here is danger of another disastrous
rerfiow, within tue borders of our
tate.
The people of liberal IDEAS who dare
xpress their views upon the political
't"ation here, are more talkatiye than
eretofore' aud as tie gIsr6ss Demo-
ratio party has drifiel into the hands of
lot of Irish bummers and whiskey deal
rs, the disgust of all respectable peupl,