New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-14

GUS riot within or around it, it is high time
they were made to understand that we pay
Mayors and Police, not to usurp or surrender the
rights of quiet, law-abihng people, but to pro-
tect those people in the fullest enjoyment OF
those rights. We would not thank any func-
tionary for the admOnition, "Send your valu-
cables to some Bank vault for safe-hecpinSj
for we have sure private adyices at Poilce
headquarters that your house is TO be robDed
"to-night:" for our prompt response wouiu De-
"If YOU know that law-abiding citizens
"house is singled out for burglary tonight, IL
ais your business to provide eiiectually 1oi It's
"protectiOn."
As to Oakey's imputations on the orange
nen-his charge that they would nave ciS-
played banners or uttered cries offensive 10
Irish Catholics, &c-we arc iEpelled 10 re-
mind him that he is no longer Dlstrlct-
Attorney, and, even if he were, he could not
well indict people for crimes that he suspected
they might commit Tomorrow or next week.
If he really apprehended that the Orangemcn
would or might break the laws whereof nc Is
q guardian, he ought to have warned them
against lawless acts or demonstrations, and
not forbidden them the strictly lawful act OF
peacefully travcrsing the streets.
Let us here prick his bubble of parades
taking place by Municipal permission. No one
doubts the risht to frame and adopt general
regulations defining and limiting the ngnt 10
parade the crowded streets OF great CITY, III
our Municipal authorities shall see fit to pre-
scribe that no procession which exceeds IN
length an average block, or no procession at
all. shall form or march below Fourteenth
or any designated street, we shall most heartily
urge general and willing obedience. And so
with any regulation in the interest OF freedom
of movement for the masses which Is so
framed as to bear equally upon all. But
tho right claimed by the Mayor to decide
what professions may and what may not pass
through our streets is horse OF very dlf-
ferent color. The public will tolerate 10 such
assumption. 1t is but few days since those
Catholics who saw fit celebrated the POpe's COM
pletion of "the years of Peter" by parades III
narrow, crowded streets aud by explosions OF
gunpowder Oh Sunday, when most Protestants
consider such demonstrations untimely and In
decorous; yet no one objected or interfered
with them. We all realized that some latitude
must be allowed in such matters in
a city so vast, with o population so cosmo-
p0lltan, as OlrS. DuJ tdthoiO-, VI "i''"'
dists, or Presbyterians, however numerous or
powerful, have no rights in the premises
which are not also and equally the rights OF
the relatively few and feeble Swedenborgians,
or Second Adventists, or MormOns, or Greeks,
or any other sect whatever Nay: II the
Chinese Pdgans sojourning here want to march
in procession in honor of thcir Joss, they
must be protected therein just so far rs the
most pOpuous and powerful sect, or the Fed
eral Constitution is defied and subverted.
Must we always he teaching these \. b. Cs.
of the fundamental law7 1t is a tax 60 have
to commend them to the illiterate and ignorant
foreigner who yesterday landed On our shore.
Must we also iterate them in the ears ard
urge them upon the attention of American
born Mayors 1t does seem that the time has
passed when this labor might be reasonably
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