Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1910-05-14
Will Boom the South.

Will Boom the South.
Discussing the plans for holding :
great Exposition in New Orleans. the
Assumption Pioneer points mt the
good such an Exposition wlnld A.;
complish In the Sey d booming -
South. l'ne "pionee1e ilis asusnti0n: 70
the tact that CanSdw has spsnt Two stttE
lion Dollars in . campsign to secure i.n.
migrants, the result being shown u
nearly four hundred thousand farmers,
principally from the Northern section Of
the United States, who made their h0ipes
there. H'
just now the class Of population which
the South, and especially Louisiana.
ueeds most ia the farmer. With the havoc
the lumber mills are making with our
forests we need the snterprising, homo
loving farmers TO cultivate these lands
lest they lie fallow and non-productiye.
The work Of reclaiming the low lying
marsh and swamp land u smsking room
also for many thousands Of families up
on land, the equal OF which in poist of
fertility and desirability. u scarcely 70
be found ON this continent. Thus in
every portion Of Louisiana lands ARE be.
ing prepared, az 1t were. for the husband-
men and it becomes necessary tor us TO
do something that win strikingly attract
them here.
The South is not situated along the
established highways, over which the
great tides of human travel flow. hence
it becomes necessary TO sestabish SONS
powerful attraction IL We wish to change
these tides, and bring the multitudes In
touch with this section. II an expendi.
ture Of Two Million Dollars carried four
hundred Thousand American farmers in
to Canada and caused them to settleup-
on her inhospitable prairies, what might
we, with our fertile coil and genial eli
mate. accomplish with an invest tmentof
Five Millions. on the part Of State and
City. and that investment backed up by
the most interesting Exposition and
celebration ever planned in the world !
One American immigrant secured fol
every Five Dollars spent in advertisement
was about the way il was in Canada
but with more money, the prestige and
attraction Of the Panama Canal and thu
fact that the Western farmers do moi
have to change their citizenship x
come here, we ought to get seyera
farmers for what il cost Canada to &c,
ono. And these farmers who went Il
Canada were not vagrants. To the con
trary, they carried with them valuabll
work stock, money and equipments. ant
were ready the day after they got ther,
to set to work building homes for thei
families and preparing thsir laods "a
cultivation.
II those results were obtained b.
Canada il seems reasonable that tha
prominence given to the unrivaled I'D
vantsges offered by the South. whicl
will result from the Panama Exposition
ought to locate at least million farmer
in these States. OF these, Louisiana b,
reason Of her superior inducements
wonld get the lions share. Such an in
flux OF home makers would add many
millions OF dollars to the taxable wealtl
OF the State, and problems like those O
good roads. good schools, better socia
conditions. rural telephones, interurbal
trolley cars. development OF shallow
water transportation, and similar natter
would be speedily solved.
The small tax. amounting to less thar
forty cents to the thousand dollars d
assessment for ten years, which will b
necessary to open up this opportunity
to the people Of the South, u but ,
triflo by cOmparisOn.