St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-10-05

They bear fruit several years sooner, but
are probably shorter lived.
The trees grown from cuttings are longer
lived provided blight does not strike
them) and produce much larger crops
when they arrive in bearing condition.
Times Democrat.
The Philadelphia Times says: ''The
place where the cotton is grown is the
place where it must soon be chiefly manu-
featured. With a genial climate that in
itself lessons the cost of labor very largely );
with water power that never freezes in
most of the cotton regions with facilities
for reaching markets nearly or quite equal
to Northern mills, and with the economy
of free raw materials without cost of trans
portation or the injury of severe compress
sion, cotton should be manufactured in
any of the cotton States much cheaper
than in the North. In these days of swift
mutations in business and trade, those
who disregard the absolute laws which
govern all branches of enterprise will be
certain to founder in bankruptcy and only
the stone blind fail to see that cotton fab
RIGS and large proportion of the iron sup
ply of the country must come from the
South, They have natural advantages for
cheapening those products which cannot
be longer 6efed and instead of persisting
in war against fate by putting Northern
ingenuity, energy and capital against
Southern advantages, our ingenuity, en-
ergy and capital must largely 60 South
and reap their richest harvests in the cot
ton and iron centers of that region" Few
intelligent observers have been more quick
to see or more ready to acknowledge the
magnificent native wealth of the South,
and it's eminent advantages for manufac-
turing, than has the distinguished and en-
lightened editor of the Philadelphia Times.
1t is is stated positively that the car
will visit Potsdam on the 9th instant,
and that Prince Bismarck will come to
Berlin.
The Czarowitch has left Hanover for
Altoona.
Commerce and Industries of Germany.
In an elaborate and exhaustive report to
the State Department upon the commerce
and industries of Germany in the year
1SS9-o9, by Consul General Mueller of
Frankfort on the Maine, he reviews every
branch of trade, and the material resources
of the empire. Some most important
paragraphs are as follows: Germany's
business relations appear to be healthy,
and government and people shrink from
no effort to have them remain so, and to
make their commercial position among ma
tons correspond with the greatness of the
empire; necessity binding German people
to extend and augment their trade, and
secure foreign markets for the exchange
of the products of their surplus labor,
which, as it were, forms prominent part
of the national resources. Judging from
the steady industrial and commercial pro-
gress during the last decade, it is fair to
assume that the German government and
people are determined to meet the eX-
igencies of the situation. To encourage
industrial pursuits and foreign trade, col
onies have been founded, steamship lines
to the coast of Africa subsidized, export
premiums and drawbacks allow ed the
consular system widened and extended,
and the organization of German chambers
of commerce in foreign countries contem-
plated. German banks are being estab-
lished at home and in China for trade pur-
poses with the empire. To cheaper freight
and to facilitate shipments, inland canals
and watercourses are being built, rivers
made navigable and the merchant marine
augmented.
Labor is well employed at common rates
of wages and strikes and friction between
employers and employees are not of fire.
quent occurrence. With the exception of
a largely reduced grain crop and extremely
poor vintage, results, the year 1888 turned
out well, and has given to the German
people little cause of dissatisfaction and
complaint.
The social condition and prosperity of
the greatness of people has not materially
improved during the year, nor is there any
good reason for thinking changes for the
better are imminent. Amid the seemingly
prosperous condition of general trade, the
poor mans social position shows no change
for H. BETTER, unless the system of acct
- 70. o"e and s-,valid insurance be
u, 'hoh' Us ! what strikes me as
strgEHs good as may be, working
men E1be years enGare where they were
when it began. Increased prices of manu-
facturers for the products is not followed
by increase of wages of laborers, and the
increased cost of workingmen's necessities
seems to put them in more deplorable
position than ever. The constant division
of property and small estates of those in
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small concerns by combinations of large
ones, is constantly recruiting the laboring
classes and finging into them men of
enlightened discomfort, which may some
day lift it's protest
The gap between the rich and poor is
growing greater-the rich growing richer,
the POOR poorer-when not stationary.
Trade per capita in Europe-Rollspd,
,of he of
done per capita of population. The aver
age business done by the Dutch amounts
to $197. "a per annum, Switzerland comes
next, but far behind with $99 40; then
England, $500, while Germany and
France do business of only. $!9 on Tor
each man, woman and child INSIDE tnelr
boundaries.
Navy-Now, after completion and per
lection of the military organization, the