The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-06-29
MONROE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY. JUNE 20. 1883
groves. The people of this class nave
always been famed for their neaHh
and longevity.

always been famed iOr tnelr ncaN"
aud longevity.
Still another class, now almost
merged into the Creole, were the Ger
man field workers, who came to Louis
la ma iu colonial days aud gave their
name to part of the upper coast ana
some of the "bsyou'' country In South
ern Louisiana.
With two hundred thousand or more
whites already living in the country
parishes OF Lower Louisiana, and the
larger part of these engaged winter ana
summer In cultivating and harvesting
its crops of cane, rice, corn and cotton,
In rearing its herds Of cattle, In telling
its forests, aud working its sawmuis,
ricenilis, sugar houses aud refinerles,
il ia a rather startling proposition 10
announce that white labor cannot STAND
the summer climate Of Louisiana aud
the other Gulf Statee. With several
thousand Northern settlers living In
fine health and great activity 10 the
very southernmost parishes OF this
State, cultivating their lands under the
su ,nner sun, and harvesting their hay
crops and their rice crops in August
ana September, the folly OF that pro-
With the fact known that the sugar,
cotton, corn rice aud cattle OF South
Louisiana are largely the product OF
white labor, the utter falsify OF that
old aud worn statement as to Louisiana
being II bad place for white men to un-
dertake field work Is fully shown.
The fact ia that this State and the
other Gulf States offer greater induce
ments and grauder opportunities for
" hite farmers and deld laborers than
any other part of the country. With
new sugar lands being constantly
brought into cultivation to meet the
rapid extension going on Ia many OF
our central factories, industrious white
farmers. with Il few hundreds OF dollars,
can produce cane crops worth a. many
thousands. A family with three able
bodied workers In 1t should be able to
produce 500 tons of cane, worth $25OO,
and raise nearly all the food required
tor themselves aud more than enough
for their teams. The came family 0c'
cupied in rice culture should be able
| to raise about 700 barrels of rough rice,
| worth $4,000. The yield of well-culttv.
ated corn in this State is from 40 to GC
bushels to the acre. The possibilities
of the Gulf S,stes' lands in live stock
hay production, gardening, truck farm
ing, etc, are being demonstrated ever,
wear by hundreds Of white men en-
gagged in the various branches of agri
culture.
These hundreds or thousands shoul'
be hundreds of thousands, as there ]
room. and more, for go many. Tn
development of the agricultural ant
lumber interests in this part Of tn
country can only be done on prope
scale by the introduction of NOR
skilled and reliable class OF labor, eithe
, in form of white tenantry or as whit
farmers and lumbermeD. That devel
opment would be followed by al
enormous increase of wealth. Tier
, js no such field for labor and capits
anywhere in the United States as thei
2 ia in the fertile soil aud the vast fores
: Of the Gulf States.
4 All of this part OF our great country
, so inviting 10 enterprise and none
I and white men, is open TO settlers froi
l every section. Such, from anywhei
r in the North, would be greeted tt
I'll welcome that has greeted tho IL
}, thousands OF their brethren who hay
= come down to us to make their peac
l full and happy homes by the breez
swept shores of our Gulf. Let this fa
REGION be made white mans cOuntl
and IL will he nearer Utopia than ar
reayn that has been so far found Ia II
Il world.