New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-12


sovereignty OF the CAESARS; when it becom
necessary that the most dangerous of q
povers-the power of the treasury-shou
6, be intruded upon public affairs, it is one
the signs that we have not yet learned no
to conduct commerce in its higher form
and that there is yet to be an era OF reform
! ton III these matters. One Of our few col
solutions in looking at these men is tn;
3, they never keep their i'll gotten riches.
have seen the dethronement of. / thinl
seven Of eight kings in Wall street. My Of
servatiOn commenced about the same tim
9 that Jacob Little hOurished, and one by on
&c l have seen them all fall. But they ar
down to-day and up Tomorrow, and Xix
! the wounds that Milton describes as mad
by angelic hands in ethereal forms, thei
wounds close almost before the cash ha
| passed over 10. But how many innocen
persons are destroyed by them? Hundred
: of thousands. Juggernaut wheeling owe
his votaries was As nothing to this. for the,
sought destruction. But here, Throughout
= the land, !: Is in the power OF few men
mallgn Ill avarice. to so shape the CONNER
caf system that no man is safe, and hun
dreds remote from the centre Of the convul
D. sion are cast down in utter ruin. It is 6
burning shame. and if public sentimen,
can not restrain it, there ought at least TO bt
, found out a law by which this Overwhelm
; ing power should not be given to CONNER
OF the greatest dangers of our time is the
consolidation of wealth.
know not why men should be allowed
indefinite power through money any more
than through politics. We watch In poll
ties against anything in the nature of SOW
ereignty, but of that we stand in no danger.
Old fashioned aristOcracv is done and over;
our special danger is from the arstocracies
that grow up through the accumulation Of
monstrOus fortunes. In New York there is
manifest tendency to concentrate business
into the hands of few men. | know Mr..
Stewart and respect him personally, but
think 1t is better that the same amount of
business done by one man would be better
II IL were done by fifty. Property is like
snow-if it lies level all over the road it is
good travelling, but if it is accumulated at
one part 1t makes it impossible by its very
abundance. Applause. The tendency to
| accumulate landed property, not unknown
IN Your own vicinity, is also a danger. 1t is
| not good for the men who accumulate it,
| nor tor the neighbOrhOod. To-day the great
companies are organized, and some of them
hold IN their hands more votes, if they
choose to use them, than the people them
selves IN the outlying cities or neighb Dor
hood. Corporations can buy conventions,
and as for Legislatures, they are as yenal
as the market. Laughter! Present COM
Pany Is. 'ot course. excepted. [Laughter.l
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ancestors does not restrain men, if the chill.
dren OF New England wander few States
away, buying convention is as common as
buying dinner. Every man is marked
down. and his price put over against him.
speak Of what do know--the old ones !
prices are known. because it is remembered |
what 1t cost the year before to manage |
them laughter land the new men are |
speedily found out. l believe the most !
honest men are generally professional men.
Inc cheapest and easiest men to buy in the |
Legislature are the farmers; and it is what |
we might expect. because really men are
not honest by internal impulse, for honesty.
like manners. comes by practice.
Men may wish to be honest and not know
now. 10 wish to be honest. and to know
how to be honest, too, is to be very near
Heaven. Its my opinion that if it were their
WISH there are three railway companies |
whose terminus is New York, who could
buy up this nation, and put in any President
they. pleased. Our danger. therefore. is
not from the old aristocracy. Old families
How innocent IS the pride of old families.
common people. and sometimes get d:siiked !
because they are exclusive: they enjoy
but have 10 power. There is !
nothing III tue world so pc werless as aristo.
cratic circles and sets. the men that carry |
the 6eadlIess influence are the ;uea tina.
carry purses. so when the storm snlites one !
'i these men and he goes down ! am very =,
sorry; but still l say 20 myself, ut il on.
LANCER less 1t is comfort to find once IN t
while that there are sche;ueya III the world |
WHO are rot stronger than God, and tina. i
he dew! can't have His way ali the time.
Laughter and applause: The wors. o: al. t
ssages is that OF putting into the risk OF t
commerce funds !atcusteG ~ mems hands ! I
l"t Tor their own Use. but TOR keeping To | r
pecltc purposes. There Ough: 70 be a new V
ducaror ON the subject OF using money n
nat IS not your own. speak with a fell b
o"leeling, having been the treasurer of (,
eVf:di small associations. and never get. G
ing out without sieta lcations. which nai to
e replaced By about four times their T
mount. We are coming to stage. tei- IL
1wcitlzen-. whec faith in man is essen. tt
ally shaken. and by and by ". shall! he Il
Die 10 say. as was said of old. that an hon ! Il
st man is rarc- than gold itself: need no. 81
~ with those cause. Of disturbances |
ave enumerated, that the career O.: men a.
no embark "a commerce is one OF grea. b.
uncertainty. There is much that is ;liusory | ri
their gains and prosperity 1t is ,ep,.tea | Il
lat about ninety to ninety-six per cent OF
|! the men vino embark in cuisines. fai! a,
zee IN their lives. don't know that fail. tn
re IS the worst thing that can befall a man. &c
no suppose there are few occasions gi
lure. ii
Who knows wha. struggles inspired BIZ
ice 90 OF against failure When such
EN- 60 down l always feel inclined 20 pass
eni as l would a mourner a: a funeral. 1t
brave thing 10 see = man who has gone ! SO
'Wn rise again and ve-ente: upon th. con Nj
ct OF :Iiei but Il this NAV 70. be, then II is
q EoDie thing 70 see him who is able to be th,
or. TO see him who has been among The Or
lest, content 20 walk among the lowest ia,
tnout HuT;nur or complaint. Look for a | tn,
oment At what may be called the remnants ! pu
Ute: not the vicious. bat the broken | hi
Wn. The wrecked clergyman. who passes
,ln the pulpit to the agency. and down to ! q
Ii hum bier means of living, IL he be weak Sh
II SPEAK OF what he has been. but !: brave on
VIII be silent, and contentediy wal. TO sey
brought 10 all those things IL which he ser
5 Taught his people faith. My experience sit,
mat Clergymen are not ALWAYS the pos
rewdess .: The most thrifty O: men, str
There =, not better set OF fellows ceL
the world II you can only get nut
y: coats OF. and their Iocse gowns mu
AZ hone. .Laughter.. ! would .of
more y ! were not q clergyman wa
self and might be suspected OF fayoring vii
kind. :..aughter.; The wreck of tbs ! up
II OF fashion OK pieasure--how worthless aid,
such men - g!ldeG Chariots out of sait
q are thrust away under sheds 20 rust | can
rot, absolutely worthless, so are the | In,
who have pursued fashion and pleas. | fine
/. What shall say of the wrecked poll. lool
an IN Grove. he las lived. AID poll her
- his only resource. What il he if mic
So fcr5ake him All the varied interest. the
human lie pas. before him and have tor lool
no interest. Burned out with excite y,
III ne IS chlmheE where men have for ! con
ten to build a fire. The broken down mo-
Caaut-hOw many there ar. in ev.rv | oh;.