New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-17
TALK ON TIE STREET.

Ia&eS are TOO much now" MIR. H0ttWateT
also remarked: "They didn't do things that
way when 1 was boy"
lis there no difference in house rents ~
inquired the city tax collector, who came to
him for his little bill.
YES houses rent for twenty-five per
cent less iu the region subject to overflow
than in those which are always dry"
''Ihen by keeping the water of the canals
out entirely you could receive twenty-five
per cent year more rent"
! II don't admit that" said Hottwater.
''Now, if property is benefited twenty-five
! per centa year, or increased in value this
amount by a public improvement, what
ought to pay for it, the property or the
! citizens at large ~ The tax collector kept
the king in the pegs.
"The property, of course; but we can't
trust the men who collect the tax replied
Hottwater.
'.Then why don't you people step up and
take charge of your own affairs ?"
80, 1 won't have anything to do with
politics" ..
''No; but politics will have something to
do with you. You turn your tenants out in
the street if they don't pay up. You re
fuse to pay, and the city credit goes down
by your refusal to settle up just dues. You
will have no city improvements, though it
elevates your own property. You can't
shirk the responsibility; it falls on your
shoulders"
% if / don't stick in the mud for
years before III pay that drainage tax"
Everybody knows you'll do it, and that
is precisely the reason why this town is
slipping down"
"Stuff and nonsense" said Hottwater.
The moral force that a newspaper exerts
is one of the greatest among its uses.
g. wonder" exclaimed one of. the cotton
fraternity, who had a great respect for
every man who lived with doOr-pIate On
his front door, why young BobOlinks
name was mentioned in the paper. The
BObOlinks are a respectable family, and
see it mentioned that he was arrested for
making night hideous and being drunk"
Served him right" replied one of those
old and methOdical men, who live within
sight of the same church-steeple for gen
Grafton, and whom nothing but an earth
quake, tidal wave or a tax collectors suit
would ever dislodge; Served him right;
if respectable men of respectable families
get into disTeputable fix, everybody hOuId
know it."
But it may harden young man"
30, that's what the women say. Don't
hurt his feelings. A young cub plays the
devil and disgraces his family. When the
punishment comes he mustn't take it, poor
fellow. What is the latest preventive in
England against public debauchery The
publication of the names of every one
found in the public streets in that condi-
ton. Newspaper reports, daily given do |
more good than all the sermons daily |
preach. Can you touch pitch and not be
defiled! IF that young fellow grOwls about |
his name in the papers, does he ever think |
that he'd no business to be there? o, no.
Does he say it's my own fault, and l am too |
much of a man to blame others for what |
I've done myself! 0, no. All his censure
is cast on the newspaper. l wish all the !
newspapers in the land would become per
sonal on every man who is a stain on |
society, and let the cat out of the bag every
time. Then we'd have order"
go, you're preiudiced," replied the young
man, and as the late conference committee |
remarked, 'the door was closed" |
A beggar who asked for money at an
uptown house, the other day, was offered
bread and meat. "Thank you, madam"
said he, I'm not in the cold vittel line to-
day"
1t is true that beggars are formed into
strong association, and have their regular
things to do or their beats to tramp.
Murder will ont, rejoined police Off
Ger to the traverse of a newspaper para
graph.
aye" answered the reader, land so viii
Grant"
eyes said corner grocery proprietor,
Everything runs into politics"
81 hope there'u be smash by November,
and that this running will end that way"
was the suggestion of landlord vino had
ust been told by his tenant that he could
lot settle the rent until the election was
over.
A youth up town bet he could run and
md slide on that banana peel and not fall.
The doctor says: "The skull isn't fractured,
Tor is his neck broke, but after the back of
lis head is healed and his ankle set he'll be
I'll right in a couple of months"
Greeley says the last persons whose
,laims he viii consider when President are
hose who have sought to wiring from him
he promise of an appointment.
"YOu will always notice." remarked a
on this speech, that the most
worthless men in any crowd are always
allowing to get in the front rank. Form
my crowd on the street, and the man on
he inside ring who crowds the mourners is
he inferior man in the concern. 1t is the
anne in politics"
"Greeley's made his speech, opened his
mouth and put his foot in it, exclaimed
me not altogether uncOnnected with the
1Itisen8' Guard. Just wait now till we go
or him." He is welcome to all the comfort
lie can get,
Sturdy economist to poor man with
amily-'Buy your coal in the summer"
Poor man with family to sturdy econO-
me the work which brings the
money and III follow your advice"