The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-25
immigration Convention.

New Orleans iooo"oJ
n e.rr representing the Jennings
e oats spoke as follows !,
CUE IL said he was born in west.
: New York where fertilizers
s ~ to be used to raise beans,
~ he respected his native coun-
He went to Illinois, then
asiova and lived there thirty
soars. but he left there and came
iere, why had so many of those
.rho we're present come away
som Iowa? The answer was
nelimate." Climate made mort
.sges and mortgages were bad
srops. He then read the follow
y M make impossible for de-
.;oning men to injure the repu-
ssfion of the fair state of Loui-
llama we come here to-day. Over
Eve wears | have watched the
a,ogress of the Iowa colony in
Galeasieu parish. Many of them
&C old men. Some of us were
horn tired and have done some
hard sitting around in our day,
Init TO the credit of our climate
IL If said dwellings, have been
bnilt. homes have been made,
farms have been opened, new in
dnstries have been established.
Where all was silence the ham,
mar and saw make din and clat-
IA, The grass-covered roads
,evel in dust or mud as the heav-
ems decree. One hundred now
ers and self-binding harvesters,
many hay rakes, gatherers,
steam theeshers, hay presses and
all modern machinery are in use.
Thousands OF poun6s of bright,
clean, sweet native prairie hay
will be shipped on the Southern
Pacific railroad to market this
year. Three years ago this most
valuable product of the prairie
was burned up. This season
there will be saved to pay for
sweat and honest labor 300, 900
on hay alone upon only 100
miles of the Southern Pacific
railroad in southwestern Louisi-
ana, more than 100000 in rice
for All increase in two years, be-
sides q very large amount in
other directions. At Jennings,
on the Goth six cars of most ex-
cellent hay were loaded for your
market via New Orleans, the
best market a Yankee ever
struck, not because yon are cas-
ily imposed upon by tin watch
Is. wooden nutmegs, Eastwood
cucumber seeds and such things,
but because you run to one
thing, cotton, sugar, rice, tobac-
co. The Yankee diversifies and
Oils your market with 1000
things you must hive to make
life worth living. / spoke of
honest labor. Labor is SO ele-
Vating 10 its nature that the la
boFers of this century will be
rulers of the next. The working
lsraelite slew his Egyptian mas
ter. Last year a few came to
see the country iii summer; they
generally liked the climate and
invested in lands.
Ton are welcome. Since the
governor, On a special day APP
pointed, rendered us the hospi-
tality of the state we have not
doubted our welcome, and allow
ne % say III behalf of these set
Hers that you are welcome to
stay. We want you, we can't
spare You; we think we have
found the veritable Garden of
Eden. My partner *. Freeman,
I surveyor, IN digging around
ipF corner posts says he has
struck some of the roots IF the
odapple tree. He may be wrong
about that, for I think the for
Didd8n fruit was a green persim-
mon the way it puckered up our
aFes and characters. Cain found
as wife in the land of Nod; we
nnd ours in this land of the gods.
This season many more came
and . larger per cent than usual
invested and the movement has
eeen constantly increasing from
the start.
The only clouds that hang
about our horizon are of mans
eseaflon. Nature is prodigaI.a
hVen when we cut the valuable
gfass clear to the ground the
good mother earth sends up a
oefteF and larger yield each
year, and we find more corn,
more cotton, more potatoes,
moFe grain per acre. Yet, with
II fliis generosity, we find that
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