St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06

that could hear through them. Doctor
the tariff with homeopathic, or aIio-
pathic, or electric dose from now until
the Thanksgiving Day of the year 2000,
and YOU cannot in that way cure this
chronic national malady.
Others hope by change OF national ad-
ministration to correct the trouble. NO
President, though he combined the pa
triOtism of a Washington, and the broad
views Of Jefferson, and the sauvity OF
Madison, and the courage OF an An
drew jackson, and the old-fashioned
honesty of an Abraham Lincoln, could
regulate the inexorable law of supply
and demand. "Well," some say, let us
pack our trunks and move East, or
North, or Westn Going East toward
Europe would be exodus into Starya-
ton. The avalanche of population
from Europe assures us that the country
is already Overcrowded. We all know
that this is the best country TO live IN.
/ have eight hundred and fifty thousand
new reasons for saying so-85O,000 peo-
pie coming in one year from the other
side the sea to our country. II TINS had
not been the best country to live IN
there would have been $4,000 Amerl-
cans going to the other side the ATTAIN
tic. Shall we go North ? Already the
busiest lives of competition are along
the st. Lawrence, and the AndroscOg-
gin, and the Penobscot, and the woods
of Maine, and the waters of the lake
chain answer, No room here y
Shall we move West?
THERE IS NO WEST.
The emigrants chased it across the
~ napDSc +fa
LaPlatte, and Fremont's exploring eX-
petition put their spurs into their
horses TANKS and chased the West from
the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Ne
yada, while the f0Tty-niners from Cali
fornia, landing from their ships on the
Pacific beach, took the West in the rear.
And the workmen of the Union Pacific
and Northern Pacific and Southern Pa
cific came upon it with their spades, and
the giant West has ceased. And though
many might suppose that it might be
said of it as of Moses, mo man know
eth of his sepulchre to this day.
think that the Yosemite Valley is its
sarcophagus, with Ell Captain for the
and Cathedral Rock at the
foot. The millions of foreign popula-
ton that are yet to cross the sea for
America will soon fill all the area be-
tween the Atlantic and the Picific
beaches.
But in the words of my text; now
declare ''anOther door toward the
and when I say South | do not
mean the Southern States of the nation,
but mean magnificent intinity OF OPP
beyond Portuguese America,
the fifteen Spanist- American republics
aud the Islands of the South Pacific.
Though that door will come the COM
Dlete and glorious relief for all this
over-suppfy. Ii will come within ten
fiye-wifIln three. On
the 10th of next mHftO,
AT THE WORLDS EXPOSITION,
that door will begin to swing open, and
if the government ofsthe United States
fully appreciates the opportunity and
the people will help the highest water
mark that the wave of our national
has ever reached will be a
hundred feetunder what shall speedily
be the full tide of commercial, agricul-
tural, manufacturing literary and moral
In the name of God proclaim
revolution. Not by sword or dynamite
or nitro glycerine or giant power, but
by pillow and saw and yard stick and
factory bands and new lines OF steam
nrs and whole nations riding up TO
oraat onr nation in commercial amity.
0nr neonIe for the most part sit in ap-
Mailing ignorance of an opportunity
such as was never spread out before
h fosset Her. 20" s( the South three gates
YEA. 1000 gates. and all of them wide
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oi I have had facts nut before me enough
IN keen a man awake nights, because Of
their Startling Significance, and statis-
lies 90 loaded with meaning, that they
MOI with the splendor and power Of
the IRON Dukes army at Waterloo
Scotch Crews and the Life Guards and
$500 = e,,4,,,, - bo+o{l;ons of Pom