The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-25
Carpenters. not Builders.

t---~. Carpenters not Builders.
The Senatorial gentleman; named Car
penter, who was recently bonored will
| such largo audience on the occasion o
public speech In .thts city, did mot turf
out to be master mecbapic. Expectation
it must be adnitted, was on tiptoe. ,sMr
Carpenters reputation preceded him, and
| 1t was great. He was one of the grea'
men of the West-indeed Of the nation
and IL had been so long since the days Of
Soule and benjamin that people here had
begun to forget how q great man looked.
They were % eager to see one as Califor-
MANS used to be to see baby.
Well Mr.. Carpenter went to work and
demonstrated to mixed crowd of two
thousand people that, il he could not build
up State, he could at least demolish .
reputation. He went in with big expect
ations Ringing on him and went out .
failure. The venerable Senator is 20
doubt . clever stump speaker, but when
people are lost in swamp they do not
tx their hopes on the man who can mount
q stump and make them laugh the loudest.
but rather on him who can climb the tallest
tree and point to them the way out. Car.
penter didn't get any higher than the
stamp.
The first road out of our troubles that the
with the negroes. This is really aggrava-
ting to people who have been trying to
do that very thing and have been cut dead
by the darkies. Why, we have even tried
to shake hands with the Carpet
baggers, which is great deal worse, and
might have succeeded, but they had both
hands in our pockets aud couldn't take
time to shake.
The great founder of States then propos-
ed to us that We should open our stores.
Don't they have newspapers in those fer
tile prairies whepce this great Westerner
has been torn Has he not read that there
10 court heTe-which Mr. Ellis styled o
j. Hawkia Court-that rutblessly shuts up
the stores 2 Mr.. Carpenter ought to have
given this part of his advice to the tax
collectors.
In fact, the great man has been attem pit
ing to sound the depths of gulf with a
fishing pole. His plumb line 10 not calcu-
lated for deep waters. The situation here
10 grave enough to have baffied the pro-
skill of those local physicians
who have studied it in every aspect for the
last six or seven years. They are sensible |
men, able doctors, who find their own fami-
". as it were, very sick, and seek remedy
patiently, laboriously, anxiously. They
can find none. There appears to be no re-
lief until such time as, by the Providenes
of God, the crisis shall pass off, and |
yet this great medicine man comes among |
US, takes q glance at the patient and pooh, !
poohs the case. "Pshaw!" he says, sdrink |
dirty water and get yourself bled to death.
Then you'll be all right, and o fatherly
Congress will bury you decently."
Mr.. Carpenter utterly failed to under
'tand our difficulty, or if be understood it
letter than appeared to be the case, be
utterly failed to find its solution. As for
bur people medaliug in politics and me-
ylecting business, it 10 mere puerility.
The real charge that can in all sober truth
% brought against our citizens is that they
Neglect politics and generally trust their
control to the management of party hacks.
As for any chronic laziness and inattention
o business among our merchants, the
barge is utterly false and was never made
'efore.
And yet, this is Mr.. Carpenters wisest
for getting out of that fatal
oil of evils which, like of an anaconda, is 9
rushing our beautiful State. This 10 the ,
rebound statesmanship of the great man
'hom even political opponents ran IN {
1Owds to hear. They are now satisfied
lat one may be Carpenter without being
a architect. &
hmaSQiy.