St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-02-25
Louisiana at the Worlds Fair.


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t For acycral months past Mr.. J. Cnui
: Waldo has been preparing book, 9Th
( Confederate Souvenir" which will con
tain sketches, portraits and other inter
csting matter. The souvenir will Sool
, be completed, and will be followed bY
: book Oil the agricultural, manufacturiu:
and commercial advantages Of Louis
lana, to be distributed at the World'
fair. Mr.. Waldo has been cunnecte.
with the press of New Orleans as Jour
najst and publisher for more than {
quarter of Il century, and is known as ar
able, pleasing and fluent writer.
In relation to his work on Louisiana
Mr.. Waldo has received the following
letter of approval from the Worlds Go.
lumbar Association of Louisiana:
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 8, 1893.
Mr.. J. Curtis Waldo, New Orleans, La.
Dear Slr-lour work on Louisiana has
our hearty approval. Wewill cheerful
ly give you aEy assistance we can, both
in gathering information aud distribu-
ting the books. With your experience
as u writer and your familiarity with
the subjects 10 DC treated, we have no
doubt that your work will accomplish
much good. Wishing you success we
/ are, yours tiu|y,
A. \. WOODS, President.
He has received similar letters from
d. ID. Colcock, secretary of the Louis
! iaua Sugar and Rice Exchange; Chas. T..
Dirmcyer, SECRETARY Mechanics, Dealers
and Lum bcrmcn's Exchange; Robt Blea-
kley, secretary New Orleans Chamber of
Commerce Henry II. Smith, secretary
New Orleans Board of Trade: "A. A.
Brinsmadc, secretary New Orleans Stock
Exchange, and others.
4 thorough write up OF the State will
be given and in addition to that, every
parish, city and town, and every in.
dustry should see to it, that their advan
tages are set forth iu the book AT
rangements can be made to have this
donc 10y addressing Mr.. J. Curtis Wal
do, publisher, l53 Cuumon street, New
Orleans. Let action DC taken ut once.
Such Il book requires tune 10 airanye
=
their orders, our people will greatly
facilitate The enterprise.
In uul Issue of the tltiI lust. We eus-
gesteu that before Gov. Foster issued
bis proclamation callUG an immigration
convention be should issue Que against
vllitecapism. aud put down aud stamp
hf law loss " i.,r L.
Avoyel!es, st. Charles aud other par
ishes,' adding that :" it will be difficult
to induce Il uesilabIe class Of immi
grant, tn come to Il country Nltlc fla
grant and open disregard Of the law pre-
walls" This seelu> to have net;el! the
.IcW editor Of the Lafayette Advertiser,
who in his issue of the 18th reprints our
nr,icle aud testify inquiries " We would
like to ask Brother Saudcz if lie believes ,
that proclamation 10y the Governor
would put a stop to the outrageS which
he dcnounces ," That is Il queer qucs-
ton. What in the name OF common
SENSE does lie suppose would be the eff ,
feet OF such il proclamation =: What are
such p,oclanlations ever issued for . He /
then goes on to say =" Gov. Foster might
write procIamations from HOW until
luomsday, and unless the people of
Aynyelles were lu accord with the TOY,
.rnur i'll Wishing la @s.asli'~ ttfe spirit OF
)pplcssiOu, such noclamations would
rave no effect" That is another queer
dea. Then, the Governor should never
attempt to arouse OF back up healthy
public sentiment aud never make an cf-
ort TO restore aw;hiding spirit in
communities where "a spirit of oppres-
ion exists, bnt he should Nnlt until
be people get in accord With him be-
orc issuing il proclamation command
ng the cvil-ducrs to desist. And, we
uppose, The way TO get t4Ic people "jn
ccord with hin. is for the newspapers
D say, as the Advertiser does, that "our
tate day is as free from outlawry as
ny State in the Union" !
4 man who reasons this way is sc;nce
Y qualified to lecture us, and we 10
Iink that unless he eau correct some
lror OF impaEt new ideas we do not
eed his advice. Besides. VIC bavc never
antasonized the movement" to call al
ID migration convention, for VIC are as
ully convinced us auy man in the State
hat IL liberal infusion of good white
luUd is one uf the greatest needs of our
and we have for years
cen engaged III ctt'olts to bring about
his much to be desired cUnsummaliUn.
But the mere holding Of IL convention
it'll the usual speeches aud resolutions
ill not prove more effective than those |
cid in the past Local associations,
nd companies, must be formcd-Sucb .
J the Southwestern Louisiana Land :
o., which built CroS ley aud developed
cadia, aud the Watkins syndicate, |
blch is filling up Lake Charles and !
alcasieu with desirable settlers. That 1
the kind of work which tells
Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Bcaure- /
ard, the last of the full generals of the
lte CoDfederacy save ono. died in New .
rleans last Monday night, aged Il
ears aud s months. His death was |
ldden and paiuless and quito unex- l..