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

easy for these houses which want Louis
lana business to compile articles calcu-
lated to advertise and enhance Louisiana
as TO print what they are now furnishing.
| am sure If the request came from tho
editors of the State, the request would be
very speedily attended to; if not, | will
personally be glad to receive from tho
same editors a statement of tho fact and |
believe we will be able TO talk to them
from the metropolis of their own State,
New Orleans. | believe the country edit
ors of Louisiana and those of Texas should
strike deal on this matter and dedicate
other 3 States. for Texas and Louisiana
interests are very closely interviewer
With those who use all home print, am
very she that all the leagues aud unions
of the different towns and cities will have
to do to-day, is TO request the co operation
of the natural legitimate boomer of home
the newspaper.
Now, | shall ask you this bald question:
Can you tell me why. to editor. to paper,
to readers. TO advertisers. to every one
possibly concerned, page in your local
paper telling of gusher ut Welch
or Jennings, telling Ms if to utter ignor.
anee Of the subject. all about the econ
frmstion of oil land or price of tho
article, Of advancement in properties con
sequent upon the find; of everything aud
anything that will advertise this new
great source of prospective wealth il not
more important than some syndicatcd
piece of utter Tommy-r rot by some un-
known and cheap hctionst about prac
tieally nothing. You can never tell whore
paper may not travel. A MESSAGE in
your local paper here may rivet the at
tention of a capitalist on the Bourse and
lead to the investment OF foreign mil
lions on your soil. | submitted this
thought to the last meeting of the State
Press Association and ] believe it was
well received. II the progressive leagues
and unions of this State will take tho
matter actively in hand am sure you
could secure the cooperation of your
State press to tho limit.
Believe me, it is an enterprise of such
enormous possibilities TINT you ahenla
not overlook it. Our Progressive Union
in New Orleans is an industrial news
IN hn
notice there have been more industrial
stories in the local columns of our daliles
than ever in tho history of the City.
Partly is this due, of course, to the fact
of an enormously increased activity; but
mainly is it due to the general industrial
reporter for MI the papers, Mr.. Tom
Richardson of the Progressive Union who
knows business story when he hears
about it and puts every paper next when
be knows its publication will increase the
tide of activity, confidence, wealth and
ginger rolling in ever-increasing wave
upon the splendid old City.
Fellow Louisianians, permit me to cx-
press the conviction that we live in the
dearest, greatest, loveliest State in the
Union. It may be prejudice, a bias,
deformity of tho intellect, a dwarf from
nativity, but would not exchange IL for
the rest of the United States. We, the
intelligent white people Of Louisiana who
think and feel this way, are tie ones to
shape Its destiny. We will be the forces
to make the world take note of the State.
We will be the sponsors for its merits and
the apoogists for it's short comings.
Great works are the works OF love. No
drudge ever yet penned an immortal book
or filed a canvas with life, or invented a
great pce of machinery, or worked out q
mighty scientific fact. And great state
is tho work of great love. Nothing
speaks SO grapdly for us as State as
does the steady march Of organization,
and of great central ideas. II betokens at
once the pride of self respect and the pur-
poses to accomplish. In addition to ad-
vertising to all the world the mat erial
advantages we have, we should be jealous
equally to mould those things Alright
which make people great.
These institutions should stand over
and above all. for education--the educa-
ton of all the people; for the vital inter
est Of all in good government and public
affairs; for cooperation between city and
city, locality and locality, in advancing
The common interests of all in making
heartily welcome the capitalist and the
aborer and in making heartily unwelcome,
whether native or acquired, the drone,
whether capitalist, whose only useful
ness is to lend at usury or laborer who
will not work.; aud to accept eagerly
rev ideas and new truths.
OF ono thing be sure: A new era Is Oh
n Louisiana.