New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-10
DIR ABSEETEES,


During the summeS season View Ore
leans is perhaps as fully represented
abroad as most cities There is class Of
non-residents who insist upon high rents
and low repairs, grumble at all assess
ments, and draw every cent they can ex-
tort to be expended abroad. This class is
ininical to all improvement; they con-
tribute neither money, enterprise nor
counsel to the advancement Of the city.
Others toll for the increase of trade, but
the nonresident only increases his rents
at the expense OF others
| 1t is by no means uncommon thae a
class should prefer to draw their revenue
| from one country and eZpend it in an
other, or to hold property unproductive
and in mortmain, to the obstruction Of
| public improvements. Other countries
have endeavored to cOerce these absentees
by taxes which discriminate against them.
This policy has had 10 marked effect.
Perhaps the only way to prevent this
absenteeism is 90 make home more at
fractive. Q6ood order, goo6 societyo good
schools and ahigh stSndar& OF art and re-
fnemene attach &he EeaithieF classes 60
their sesidences, and they will semowe
themselves and shejs segeaueS 60 Obsaan
these advantages.
There is snotheg GLASS @t$cl leases New
Orleans during che suMmeys usually Upon
Q combinatio9 Of Aealth, pleasure and
business. Che merchant who aisRs E1s
cope or Che other Stotes Of the Union pro-
poses useful duty for the city; be wito
nesses che improvements elsewhere, and
is 5e6 sheaeby to appreciate our own adj
vantages, and 90 suggese such new ideas
as may be useful. 1t is interesting to con-
verse with Q gentlema just returned
brimful Of the commercial and social ia
ciliaes observed elsewhere; he is intene
upon their immediate adoption here, but
very soon qhis impetus s arresSed by the
general inertia and che impatient traveller
subsidies into eEa general average aad
Calls into the common routine.
Perhaps our NOSE prominens sbseneses
aoroaS are cur politicians. They employ
Che 9esuyts If SaccesstGs enterprise IL
filing Sic Sasgoss sgaec possible II che
5oseisn ese. 1his j. sometimes Effected
by puS-up interviews, seaiy Sygitten oSs.
by accepting invitations 60 speak before
societies and public assembiageso The
special mission Of o1eset Of our politicians
shss season has been 10 invite the 3lfsero
vensiop Of othes peopta and States, while
thaS Of $Aeis opponents JAS been che
highle conservative and 5audabie objecs %
leaving things precisely jAsbe bands which
hold them az pqesep4.
The drss set Of 2niss4oeasfes psoc9afale&
everywhere the suin % Goaisiana Hes
debe Gas oalS be so2asS Ge liQ1i8atfoa
her faxes BY 4esistaacS 4es government
should Be repealed and che rebelling
province committed to q military satrap.
1t is plain Slio would reduce Louisiana
80 anarchys and snuff cut her statehood
1t would destroy the credit and impair the I
commerce Of our city, but the malcontents
wish Caesar or nobody If they can not |
themselves guile they prefer the defeat of
their enemies 30 the welfare of the State
Their political opponents put in a great
many good licks against tie malcontents,
and make sons strong appeals to North
ern sentiment The speech Of Mr. jeff
Davis is s formidable document
il their hands, and the argument is made
that if the malcontents be reinstated in
power, the war must be fought over again.
Of course both missions ezaggerate the
nisfortunes and misrule of our State but
between them, it is to be feared that,very
mall attraction will be presented to either
capital or numbers to come among US.
They are greatly aided in their deplorable
sketch of our condition by those who have
Try goods or lands to sell. These last re-
)eat, in all lands and languages, the dis
admissions Of our own men,
nd the story rarely loses anything in the
ec;tal.
Our absentees and refugees from the
lot weather ais now returning Our
torehoUses will soon be Respondent with
lie wealth and taste Of the foreign mar
lets. Our restaurants and banquettes
viii once more resourd with the declama-
ions of the politicians recruiting for the
winters raid Oh the Offices and salaries.
We shall have lively time, and hope {
hat the business men who return re-
reshed with the rest and recreatiors of
be summer, will take the burden from
ho shoulders Of those who have remained '
t sle?s posts fighting 6anfs notices and | t
&uying the fongo heated termo Is
ny wago We welcome tLen8 all back {
ga$4o a36 trust CUP s1n1mey absenteesD |
it'll tfe2e famiiieso Will bring back i'm |
royed health, knowledge and enterprise. t
THE QUARANTINE AN ABsURDTTYo
The access of railroad to the coast Of t
ne United States has no doubt seriously t
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