St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-02-07
IMMIGRATION,

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cultural business, were too free with tho
persimmons, lost their situation and bsro
been immigration Agents ever since Il
was cold day for Adam when he loft tta
garden, but his descendants have oona
farther and done worse.
America owes to immigration OH +hot
sue IS above wilderness and barbarism
ard now that it is well settled that A1nurica
IS The ''old World, these immigrants are
mere trying to push aside the fallen Angel
with flaming sword, who is vainly tryinp
10 STOP Immigration 10 the newly discov1
cred Harden Of Eden, on the coast of the
New Mediterranean, the north shore of
the Gulf Ct Mexico.
he immigrants to America We're driven
oy reIlgIous persecution and adverse winds
lar out OF their course, and were landed
on Plymouth Rock, the Northeast corner
stone OF the great American Republic,
About this time Bishop Berklev wrote
his famous line, "Westward the course Of
Empire takes its way" Immigration, like
many other sublunary things, frequent
y goes wrong. 1t went on paral-
els of latitude without reference
the great fact that the best results of
farming are from diversity not unity. I'M
migrants are led like other men. and sheen
1t IS now easy to see that when you follow
parallels you unity your crops, and when
you cross them, you diversity. So, this
emigration was led straight across the
continent, raising wheat, corn and oats
until they had to give too many oats for q
shilling
About the first effort to change the
course or emigration was made and put in
successful operation by the Illinois Cen.
tral and Southern Pacific Railroads, some
seven or eight years ago. Since then at
least 10 COZ Northern people have settled
IN Southwestern Louisiana alone.
The hinderences to emigration South.
are prejudice, ignorance and poverty. Pre-
JUDGE goes farthest Of all, on the principle
that the less you have against man, if
you take up against him, the more YOU
hate him" Slavery was against immigra-
ton, but that is abolished yellow fever
has deferred thousands, but that can be
guaranteed and does not originate here,
The North has many diseases that cannot
De quarantned,-and that originate there,
that are more fatal. Even the mild and
gentle Russian la grippe has more fatal
cases North, than any Southern epidemic
ever had in the same length of time. |
have not time to speak of diphtheria
typhoid and scarlet fever, small pox,
cyclones and other Northern diseases.
We study Europe, but know little of
America. We spend millions abroad, and
very little travelling at home. Ask an
American about London, Rome, Paris, and
the mountains Of the moon, and he will
tell you all about them. You ask him
about Louisiana he answers after brush
ing up his geography awlile-"It is a
swamp, inhabited by Creoles," mixed
race, as he says, "of Indians and Negroes,
who pass their days hunting alligators, and
their nights fighting mosq!itoes"
The helps to immigration are knowl.
edge, money. ard cheap and easy trans
portation. This knowledge can, to day,
be best impaired by those on the ground.
Are you better off than before? And what
do you know of the country? Impart this
to your friends.
The railroad agents will do their part,
and the railroad company will furnish
cheap transportation. The importance of
this immigration can only be limited at.
It means good times better prices; better
schools more pure and undefled religion ;
better society ; more railroads more, bet
ter and wider wagon roads clean city
streets; water works; electric lights bet
ter laws, and brighter day for humanity.
It will settle the race question, Give
US five years more of Northern immigra-
ton, and as many more millions of North
ern capital as we have already received,
and the vexed question is settled.
These immigrants know a good thing
when they see it, and they will have it.
One of the very best things they do, they
Louisiana raises, upol an average, three
times the value per acre more than the
great agricultural States of the Northwest
yet her lands are held at one-half the
price BY the census of 1880, Louisiana
agricultural lands valued at $25 per acre,
bring crops to the value of SEQ annually;
while lands in Iowa. valued at $31 per
acre, bring s.. The price of Louisiana
land measured by this standard and COM
parison, should be $50 per acre and when
Louisiana lands ere cultivated with brains
and improved machinery, the results and
prices will be much better. Great things
are in reserve fer the New Garden of
Eden.
Besides, these immigrants are great on
tariff. when in their pockets.) The tariff
reminds me of the Datchman, who said:
"Yawcub, be honest don't sheat some
bodys. But, Yawcub, if there's any sheat-
ing going on, be sure it's on your side"
One hundred per cent, on sugar and rice,
and expect to be asked, before leave
here to sign a petition for prohibtory
tariff on straw berries, unless you think
that the railroads have put on "all the
traffic will bear.
These immigrants have been going the
wrong way, until crab apples and snow
shoes are necessities, and dried apples
luxury. The time Of that Ignorance, God
winked at but now, in the words OF
Moses, says: "Get you up Southwark to
that good land q land of brooks of water,
Of fountains and depths that spring out OF
valleys and hills land of wheat and bar
lev. and vines and fig trees and pome-
granates a land of oil, olives and honey
a land wherein thou shalt eat bread with
mt scsrceness. Thou shalt not lack any
hing in il"
The prospect for immigration is good;
he quality and quantity are both lmpfoV-
ng. The foreign immigrant brings an
average of sixty dollars. These people an
&c of five hundred dollars. VI fo1,
ign emigrants, not ten per cent, can READ
n write in English These are all fairly
we'll educated. They are the men who
ave astonshed the world BY their I'M
,rovements in the great Northwest.
7 shall expect to see at least III 0OO peo-
lie come to Louisiana the coming year,
M, nd IG know v, they will meet royal vel
ome. Suppose we all act as Emigration
rants The most sanguine among us Will
g, e astonished at the grand results.
~ S. l.. CARY.
The Bug and the Lady.