New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-13
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Louisville, Kentucky, Is jealous Of Gin

Louisville, Kentucky, Is jealous Of Gin
| cinnati, Ohio. It is a decided case Of the
green-eyed monster, and the Courier
| Journal is the, mouth-piece of the senti-
ment Nothing that Cincinnati does is
done to suit Louisville. Kentucky never
did like Ohio. Kentucky wears spec
tacles that never allows her to see across
the Ohio river. The sight is not pleas
ant. With better land she has fewer i'm
provements. While the north bank of
the river is dotted with settlements, the
south bank is covered with primeval
woods. People go from Nashville and
Decatur to Cincinnati to buy goods, and
have a nice time. When they feel lazy
and soggy they so to Louisville, where
the hospitality is good, but the trading
dull. Chivalry is held in high repute in
Kentucky, and the percentage Oh goods
is held still higher. Men are called rebels
in Cincinnati, but then they are accom-
modated with greater bargains in mer-
chandise. And it is singular how even
rebels Will trade where they can get the
best discount. Even our people, who
have a horror of hiring Radicals to do any
superior work for them, run Off to Boston
to trade with lifelong Radicals. Louis
Vile is in the sam. fix. She has stood by
the chivalry and the high discounts until
Cincinnati has captured the chivalry by
abandoning the discounts. thus leaving
Louisville to mourn over another case Of
base political ingratitude.
The last fever in Louisville was pro-
duced by the Commercial Convention in
Cincinnati. kentucky says it was a
failure. The people of Cincinnati Were
too busy to be polite and hospitable.
Louisville considers p%oliteness and hos
pitality the beginning and end of bust
ness, which is q mistake. It might have
been so in the days of Daniel Boone,
but it is not so now Closeness
and dispatch dominate in commerce
Men want to buy on the smallest
margins, and they want to do it promptly.
Business first and pleasure afterward.
They do not ask a man if he is a Demo-
crat, and they take it as a kind of humbug
if they are bored with anything of the
sort. This is what has ruined New Or
leans as well as Louisville. We bore q
with politics. If he comes from
the country..to invest in goods, he is eau
ione,' not to trade with Beeswax, because
,e is q Yankee. and a Radical in disguise.
,,anzine is q Southern man and q Demo-
rat. and deserves to ne p%atronized. This
not business. BeeswaA Las u"ue III
i'm, and would sell on the nil 'oie penny
principle; but being exterminaten ~
barge about his politics, he V~lti'na"'s
'ulls up his traps and goes away. SS''
inc sells high, and the customer quits
market where goods are sold by politi-
ians. Our houses are shut up in conse-
Iuence. Rents are not what they ought
o be. Our trade has gone where it is not
by an ~opinionated ass, who is as
zig a failure in business as he is in poll
les. This is how Cincinnati has worried
louisville, and how she has worried us
.lso.
We have no doubt that every business
nan who went to Cincinnati to attend the
convention was treated in a business way.
If he did not get his belly burnt out with
Bourbon whisky, he may congratulate
that he escaped what Louis
vile would have proposed at the outset.
And if he did hear some Objectionable
he at least felt safe in his W
opinions. Cincinnati tolerates free thought
Is well as cheap goods. She does not run
, merchant out of town because he is a
rebel or a Radical. but she sets up orators
10 convert the sinner from the error Of his
way, while she offers him good bargains
material things. Let New Orleans and,
if possible, Louisville, grow up to this
liberality of speech and action, and it will
no hotter for Them