New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-01-03


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THE NEW ERA IN LOUISIANA.
BY J. NJ. LEvEQUE AT PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE
MEETING.
We lie In the lap of immense opportu-
nifty. To-day. splendid Louisiana is real
izing It with sense of conviction without
precedent In all its history. This convie-
ton is so great that it reefs the ear to the
voice of the croaker; 1t ridicules and de
rides the moss-back; it communicates its
contngiou to the visitor; it permeates the
very air making enterprise vibrant with
confidence and daring. Splendid Louis
lana is confident It il on the map, and all
the world who visit remember TO tell the
tale of this most superb of all the States.
And, do you know, it is a splendid thing
to be able to feel that way about one 8
native State. It has not always been our
privilege. 1t takes long time to re-
cover from the scare of II great war. The
period of healing has just about run it's
natural course. And we have not been
without other sore calamiteH It has
been long indeed since Louisiana could
feel absolutely normal-feel as such a
State should-as though the sunshine were
made for her robe and the stars and moon
and sun for her CROWN and the Aewers to
deck her bosom-feel a. though In nil the
eartb-this alone was Louisiana, our
Louisiana!
What has brought about the revolution
Time. Of course-the time that has elapsed
since the war and its terrible prostration;
that has elapsed since high waters and the
building Of an adequate levee system; the
time that has elapsed since the illiteraey
Of poverty; the time that has elapsed even
since our last stupid fever panic.
Time has been one factor: Resistiess
opportunity has been another. AS it is
impossible to prevent Nature from ripen-
ing, so is IL impossible to prevent endur
ing opportunity from bearing fruit. And,
30, in one sense, Louisiana's prosperity is
natural and normal.
But there is one respect In which this
prosperity Is the peoples boast and pride
that in which they have been creators.
In this creative work, the people have
marked = distinctly new epoch in the
States history. II is not 30 long ago that
your big and splendid metropolis, lolling
in the quoenly oppulence OF imperishable
opportunity, assumed an air of disdainful
indifference to all the world, n patronizing
attitude that was simply beautiful to seel
As an object lesson in arragonce it was
simply olimacteric. Beyond It there was
nothing. Pretty soon, however. New Or.
leans began to discover many things;
among them that the war was over; that
the majestic Mississippi had possibly not
ceased to exist or changed to any appre
ciable extent, but that multiplying rail
roads had conspired to render the big
rivers Importance on the map less all
powerful than 1t used to be; that other
cities were on the American map and in
them new order OF affairs prevailing;
that Southern Americanism, very like
Northern Americanism, was beginning to
indulge the cheap, but very practical
worldly vulgarity, Of going after what il
wanted. In short, the vast Southern port,
whose commercial history is SO resplend-
ent with past In which 1t figured, the
importer OF all the most beautiful in silks
and satins and the various ware which the
Duropean continent made for American
and which exported to the
foreign market al the produce of the vast
valley, this big, naughty queen Of the
Gulf came, by and by, to realize that IL II
evsn desired its magnificent port kept
open to the ses, II had to descend low
enough to ask Congress; that, II 1t wanted
The tswdry convenience Of . new Post
ofice, It also had to do like other common
stiles and seek it; and, by reason Of the
railroads and the diversifcation Of oppor-
unity and marts for the selling of raw
products, It even came upon the astound.
ng discovery that IL II wanted to retain
he custom Of fellow Louisianians, IL had
o solicit IL like . business city and offer
III the inducements Of competitors.
Good friends, there IL nothing like com.
,etition. The doctrine OF the survival OF
he nttest Is sublime, divine. We're IL not
or 1t, man would become 40 intollerably
nsolent that he'd habitually suicide to
'vengs the insolence he practicsd upon
himself. The progress Of the outer world
lnally reached our grand old metropolis,
n many respects 80 superb, and reused
Ierl IL
Competition forced upon her new era, ,
staining all that was beautiful, eradicat-
No what was absurd and adding what Is I
ivine ambition and the self.con adense 1
'hich alone Is the offspring Of dare and {
Tork. II
The new era Is on. What a tremend- /
10 toll Of experiment. encouragement, /
disgruntlement, moss. 1
aekism, backcapping, stupidity, asinin. I
y, cross-purpose, that gigantic engine Of y
progress, The New Orleans a
Union--now SO powerful Il
hoe 20 week.-Mrs. cost. Through what h
ttsrness Of encouragement aud opposi- e
on has IL served in bringing about the !,
w era. How fondly the dear old moss
asks-from utter, oroAking failures to q
'evish three-ball sharks, by courtesy !,
lied bsnkers-have chung to che idea al
at the world knew New Orleans and all v
zee nsw-fanglsd ideas about advertising o.
. city and getting the vast multitudes G
know Il personally and inducing eager 8,
pital to investigate Il were the dreams ri
young upstarts and know .nothings. l