The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-01


can development which has had few par
allels anywhere in the country. And that
is only one feature Of Louisiana's aston
ishing progress.
NEW SETTLERS.
BY the tide OF immigration which mas
poured into the State recently from the
West, larry f,om Iowa and Illinois,
social revolution has already been wrought
From a black State Louisiana has been
transformed into a white one from popu-
lation the majority of which Mas negroes
there is now a population the majority
Of which il white.
II is an instance of the silent forces which
are at work in the South called into Deins
by the marvellous development In the
Southern States along new lines along
lines running in Numerically opposite
directions to those on which the social and
industrial fabric of ante-bellum days were
erected-lines which all thoughtful people
here believe are destined to reach TO I'M
portant political and social consequences
that will be near or remote just in proper
ton as the logical evolution Of events If
let alone or meddled with by theorists
remote from the fact. whose knowledge
i'm inverse proportion TO their zeal.
louisiana and. for the matter OF that,
New Orleans itself. is now receiving an
influx Of Western energy and Western Ideas
that are changing conditions perhaps more
rapidly than anywhere else in the South
II is one element of the States progress.
OF this city's progress, but while 1t Is all
OF that il is to I've borne in mind that 1t was
because Of the intelligent activity OF the
people of Louisiana and New Orleans that
conditions were brought about which
brought this vitalizing Western element
into the field.
IMMIGRATION ENCOURAGED.
In no part Of the country have efforts
to attract desirable immigration been
conducted with more liberality of induce
ment or in a more broad-minded spirit
than here There wa organized In this
city a few weeks ago what il known as the
Four States immigration League-Louis-
lana, Texas. Mississippi and Alabama
having Joined hands in this movement
the object of which is to cooperate with
the passenger departments of the different
railroads in securing additional immigrants
more capital, the erection of new factories
and the general development OF the country
Nowhere in the entire South il this desire
to attract capital and desirable immigrants
more earnest than right here in Ne"
Orleans. One Of the first things that staree
the visitor in the face in the corridors 81
the leading hotels, in the railroad stations
OF surrounding and even remote towns
and in all public places about the city, II
neatly printed placard announcing that
New Orleans exempts all new factories
that come in here from all taxation for a
period of ten years.
The spreading of the news of this beral
offer broadcast the thrusting of il before
the ewes of every stranger who comes here
or near here is suggestive Of the spirit OF
enterprise and progress that has taken pos
session Of the people here. particularly of
the Younger generation of business men,
for here as well as all over the South. one
of the impressive features of the indust rial
awakening that il in progress ia the fact
that il is the Young men who are at the head
and front Of the great movement which is
working such a transformation in Dixie.
II would crafty Mr.. Croker TO come down
South. He would observe that Absalom
not only had a pretty good show, but was
doing exceedingly well.
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p'n.io,, ,..t;,h = nn., ~ ,ho no.t ra-
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> ,,''i H" n'1 p,aara.ri,.n I,;nn Win n
- -, na,,Iv zoo ia dcvo,ed
so,.lv and with an energy tina, is little short
Of marvellous, 20 promoting aid ADVERT ng
New Orleans and anything and everything
that directly OF indirectly may be of adj
vantage To New Orleans
There is Chamber OF Commerce here,
Of courSe. and Board OF Trade ana a cotton
Exchange and AL the other eq"iPtheh, oi tIe
sort contained IN cities OF cohsidcraOie
size. But the progressive mon uo'S WORN
III all departments coNttru %! 'hcSe icsu-
iatlon aS>ociauoiis anu '"s'"'H '''a' olN'-
ates IN held OF i's OWL
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