A very large percentage of the assessed property wealth of the State is derived from sugar. directly and indirectly. and to destroy it would reduce values enormously. While north Louisiana does not produce sugar. it is vitally interested in it. for we receive very large sums for levees and schools from taxes collected in the rich sugar sections and New Orleans. A tide of immigration is pouring into Louisiana. and property in every locality is rapidly increasing in value. Destroy sugar and it will require many years to establish new industries to take its place. In the meantime immigration will look elsewhere. Development will cease temporarilywe can not say how long. Other States will forge ahead of us. and every Louisianian would be seriously injured.
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