Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1910-09-10
Louisiana's Big Undertaking.


public enterprise that has engaged the
attention of the men of this generation
in Louisiara is the proposed World
Panama Exposition. 1t is work requir-
ing five years of active preparation and
the expenditure of many million of dollars
in order to prepare the stage for the great
drama which will be participated in by
every nation of the civilized world, and
by millions of our own citizens.
During the period of preparation. and
while the Exposition shall be in progress,
the worlds attention will be focused up
on Louisiana to an extent which it would
be impossible to bring about in any
other way; and the scrutiny of the State.
her resources and her possibilities cannot
fail to be of vast permanent benefit.
When the man who is eking out a bare
subsistence upon rocky and barren farms
in many of the older States. finds out for
instance that he can come to Louisiana
and realize twice as much profit for the
same amount of labor and at one half
the investment, nothing is going to be
allowed to prevent him from coming here.
He has been kept away by the Wild
and sensational stories circulated by
ignorant or mslevolent persons concern
ing the alleged unhealthfulness of our
climate. When he shall come to under
stand that the drainage and cultivation
of the lands destroys the mosquito; that
the mosquito has been responsible for
tbo vollo u fovar m To- ~ n opd othar forn,e
OF disease; when he shall understand that
it was in New Orleans that the battle was
fought which relegated yellow fever to the
hygienic junk pile and sounded the death
knen OF the pestiferous mosquito-when
he learns all of these things, the small
farmer on the thin soils of the older
State where men toll and slave half of
the year in order to provide food and
clothes to enable them to keep from
starving and freezing during the re-
naming half of the year, will pack his
goods and come to Louisiana
And they are going to learn Of all these
things from the publicity that will result
from the Exposition. Therefore. it is not
an exaggeration to assert that the under
taking which the people have in hand is
the biggest thing that Louisiana has ever
in during the life Of the present
generation. Does the reader grasp to the
full extent what it would mean to all the
people il Louisiana had population Of
ten million, instead of the less than two
million she now has? II she had even one
city that had population from fifty
thousand to two hundred fifty thousand?
1t would mean active markets for the
products of farm and garden, dairy
and orchard, pasture and field. 1t would
mean quickened demand for everything
that one might have to sell, from tooth
picks to flying machines, from hickory
nuts to original ideas. 1t would mean
roads all over the State, at
3 cost which would not be burdensome
the expense would be distributed
among millions OF tax payers. 1t would
mean the finest technical and trades
schools. in reach of every boy and girl in
he State; it would me \ good society,
churches, opportunities for the intel
ectual development of every body and
olenty OF profitable employment for all.
Are not those things worth striving for?
The prize that We are endeavering to
obtain is lordly one vol worthy Of the
efforts the sacrifices necessary to secure
t. In the presence of such fruitful
possibilities all pickering and strife
hould cease, and the men and women
II Louisiana should let nothing divert
heir efforts from the great task they
lave in hand; for it Is the supreme
of our entire career, as an
'rganized State-an opportunity that we
lare not permit to pass by unimp roved.
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You are invited to help make
Merry at the Redmen Festival,
It Edrington Park, to-day and
omorrow. There will be plenty
f Music and a splendid program
ne of sports has been arranged.
S or 6 doses ''6e6D will cure
my case Of Chills and Fever.