New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-27

we should say that they get it out of the
thews and sweat of the men VIII o work for
them, but as we are simply the querist,
perhaps the Price Current will not accept
our response, but will put in reply o.
its own manufacture. We shall see.
Again. The Price Current deprecates the
agitation of this subject because it tends to
divide the population, and it apparently
seeks to attach to us kind of malignity il
our efforts to eradicate great social and
commercial evil. As We denied the pres
ence of anything like wickedness in our
deposition, We stand upon that denial as
ending the controversy in that regard.
The issue about which We are contending
is too important to admit of malignity in
the discussion between those who arc
supremely interested in the welfare Of the
country. We are searching for the truth.
And in the endeavor we discover what the
Price Current refuses to see, or which it
says it does not see, that there is a divis
ion in society which is hurtful to all
our business relations. We single out
and specify the fault, not for the purpose
of crucifying the people, Or any part OF
them, but in order that, their attention
being called to An error of business con-
duct, they may correct it. 1t can not
profit us to assail the business welfare of
New Orleans, because that is the founda-
ton Of our prosperity: and if We see
pestilential swamp at the back door, out
of which miasmatic vapors of a deadly
quality arise to destroy the people, our
criticism of that poisonous deposit can
not be considered malignant attack upon
our friends. The social tyranny about
which We complain is as apparent to us as
are the marshes in the rear of the city, and
We can not escape the conviction that it is
equally clear to the Price Current, since it
consents to draw an eloquent picture of
that condition Of society which we should
most like to see established, but which
does not exist.
Still further. As partisan paper, pub
lished for none but selfish purposes, as
the REPUBLICAN is always assumed to be.
it is n OF to our interest to draw attention |
to the social tyranny question for the pur-
pose of correctingit. If We had no higher
ambition than to foment discord and di-
vision in society We should play differ
ent part altogether. By remaining silent
as to the rights Of our friends and the du-
ties of our opponents, the gulf Of separa-
ton that now distracts the two classes Of
our people might be made more profound
and distinct; and as the Republicans con-
troll a numerical majority of the votes of
the State, what power could destroy their
supremacy: As meagre, naked, selfish
partisan, looking to nothing but party
that politician is fool who at
tempts to bridge with reconciliation the
chasm that divides the voters of the State.
As thinking, conscientious and patriotic
man, that Republican is false to his coun-
try and to liberty. who merely upholds
his parry by the votes OF its adherents.
And whatsoever denies the patent fact that
politics in Louisiana is based on preju-
dice, and that such journals as the Price
Current are the apologists of this extraor-
ainary and fatal folly. is either blind or
perverse,