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

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must get in close touch personally with
the vast populace it would supply, and
must meet tho world in manly competition
Invested of any local or provincial seni-
ment, which must be allowed to work out
simply rs n pleasant incidental amenitv
aud advantage. lIud the Progressive
| Union of New Orleans done nothing more
than plant aud nurture into healthy
growth this popular conviction, this ideal.
it could go out of business and say. II
have completed monument more lasting
than brass"
| But, through this organization, an even
moro important thing has been accom-
plisbed for New Orleans. An even more
important thing is being accomplished for
our splendid State We. of New Orleans
We, of Louisiana, are distinctly arriving
Mt tho conclusion that the earth contains
no finer State or country than ours, out
of that conviction ia springing up in the
various towns Of our State, similar bodies
as the New Iberia Progressive League
| What is it, in its final analysis but an ex
preston on the part of the glorious land of
Evangeline that there is no other spot on
earth than this Teche country DO you
not say to the entire world, "lIero we
are-invitng your closest investigation
and your money! We champion comparl-
son with all the world. We guarantee
that investigation will lend TO invest
ment," This pride in State, this contid
ence, this aplomb, is the first stop to
superb aud substantial greatness. II Is
the people who make State.
| Aceentuating the industrial renaissance,
in fact an item without which manufac.
turing would be impossible, there hap
pens, as if by design Of very Providence,
the most important event in the history Of
the industrial South, the discovery Of fuel
oil. Nature solving the problem over
which industrialists have been bordering
time immemorisl, the difficulty urged by
| capital To manufacturing investment, re-
moved in flash
take these truths concerning Louis
lana to DO self-evident That in natural
That to-day it is experiencing the first
pronounced tidal wave OF prosperity nat
urally consequent upon that enormous
natural riches: That this destiny has been
delayed by n series OF causes beginning
with the row between the North and the
South and extending down in perfect sue
cession almost to the present; and that
to-day. under such vitaizing forces ~
these organizations of the best thought
and the best impulses and business meth
ods of our various cities and towns, these
leagues and unions, the State is receiving
more attention and investigation than it
ever has in all its history; that the visitor,
whether capitalist or workman, Is usually
pleased to the point of conviction with
what he finds; aud that, in short, Louis
lana is coming into its long deferred beri-
tage-o pulenee, creativeness and wonder
ful material acticity.
Every city and every town of the State
is organizing its intelligence aud purpose.
Let these towns and cities, through these
organizations, keep in close touch for
Louisiana advancement and progress. Let
them serve to crystalize the purpose Of
the State. Let them be the business and
industrial brain of the State, connected
and working together by the most perfect
nerve system Let no petty jealousies
mar their usefulness. That's the way in
which the citizenship of Louisiana can
make itself forceful in attracting the at
tention OF the world intelligently to itself.
Your purpose should be as broad rs
your State. When Frank Howard gives
a public school TO New Orleans, the Pro
gressive Union of New Orleans should be
the first to celebrate, and whoop aud ac-
claim with the aim that che great roar
will induce some other rich man to endow
Tulane so munifcently that 1t may be
able to leap at least in equipment abreast
with Harvard and Yale and be another
magnificent boast of Louisiana. When |
from the all-seeing argue eye of such an
institution IL is painfully apparent that
hundreds and thousands of citizens Of
superb Louisiana are losing their suffrage,
these powerful bodies of purpose and
thought, these leagues and unions, should
get out and raise heaven and hell but that
they make every one within the circle Of
their activities pay their poll-taxes.
Don't you know that good business de.
ponds upon good government, and good
government 10 born Of an cxacting insist
ence and watchfulness on the part Of all
the people, quick to express their approval
Or disapproval Of their public servants.
When the vast mass OF children of your
locality are not being scbooled for any
oanfe, or when their schooling Is made
luate and poor, don't you know 10 il the
very highest duty Of a league or union to
AXE the problem In hand, for the reason
hat the human race, from the beginning
IF its traceable history to the present has
always advanced in proportion to the in
development Of its units. The
United States leads the world to-day In
in inventiveness, in all that
makes up material progress, and in null
ituds Of things that do not, because,
lnder the freedom Of the stars and stripes
md the independence of action and of
bought they make necessary, the United
,tates have, ms a race, developed the 4
'reater amount of dynamic intellectually. |
Whenever you think you are not receiving q
nough attention from the outside world, {
hat your praiseworthy enterprises are 60. q
NJ too unnoticed, that your attractions q
Or capital are inadequately heralded, J
our unions or your leagues should get Z
fter your local papers primarily and see q
they are doing their duty, not only at I
ONE in your own little circles, but where ]
yer nm inviting industrial tale can be G
lid to inquisitive, keen, brainy capital 0