New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-17
Extortlon.


A city paper published last Thursday, the 18th
inst, contained, under the head of "LocaL Intel-
ligence,n many facts and statements concerning
the extortionate rates now demanded by land
lords in this city. Among the statements made
was the following:
Rents from the LIST of October next have
increased over the rates of last October according
to the following table prepared from data:
Urban property in the strip Of land bounded by
the river, Eiysiau Fields, Love and Barracks "a ...
In the space Of between Esplanade and ST.
In Rs space between ST. Louis aad St. Joseph
In the space between ST Joseph and Felicity
In h The space between Felicity Road and TGiciano
rs street 1strsor @
Average $50 per cent.
The average increase in the rent for all quarters
of the city has been $50 per cent. over last year
rates. The above table is the result Of examples
| of rent in the various parts mentioned.
| Such facts as the above speak for themselves,
rendering comment unnecessary
Following this Statement was remark that
was really amusing. 1t was this: "Do landlords
ever reflect how they contribute to the spread of
| immortality by high rents.'' Just as if landlords
who will raise their rents on poor and destitute
families By concert Of action, one hundred,
one hundred and fifty, two hundred, and even
three hundred per cent, cared anything about the
"spread of immortality u
Concerning these unprecedented high rents, one
| thing is certain the majority of tenants cannot
and will not pay them. Some, yea, many will
| promise to do so, but few there will be found
when the day of reckoning comes, who will do it
In less than two years from this date, landlords
will find that they have lost more than they have
won by their greediness for gain, at the expense
i of suffering families.
But why should tenants pay the rents now de-
manded? They are not compelled to do it. In
this country maorities rule in other matters; why
not in this? If there be concert of action among
landlords, who are not 1.-THE Of our citizens why
cannot there also be among tenants-an action
which will simply assert that they will not pay
more than reasonable rent for dwelling places
If nine-tenths Of the tax payers aid legal voters
take this stand, who can compel them to recede
from it? ut would not be ''disloyal,a therefore
the military would not intefere)
The truth is, landlords have no fright to render THU
or any other city uninhabitable to large portion
ofits taxpayers and legal voters by extortionatt
demands for shelter, anu tue s06ner they find i
out the better.
Dwellings, citizens must have at prices they car
afford to pay for them, or rather at prices tina
bear fair proportion to the other necessities 0
life in the market.
No valid reason can be assigned for this unpre
eedented rise of rents. The most that Landlords
can say in self defense is that dwelling houses
places for transactiug business are in unusual de
mand, and that they mean to take advantage o
the necessities of the people and make hay while
the sun shines.
If the people are content to submit to the de
mands of landlords they have only themselves tt
blame, and while blaming themselves, let then
bear in mind that James CONCEAL has commenced
pushing forward from the North his mammoth
stock of drugs and medicines to his warehouses
and store at No. 20 st. Charles street, and from
thence this stock will find its way into the hands
of his numerous customers, who are scattered al
over the country.