New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-11
WILL EXPENSES BE CIT DOWN.?

The proposition 70 go into q general
cutting down Of expenses and reduction
Of municipal Offices does no. nee: with
that hearty response which We had reason
to expec: from ell the parties o: every
name and degree which have leagued :. ~.
gether to capture the City Hall IN the
contrary, the chances arc favorable for a
continuance Ct tie presen: machinery,
WITH more stringent policy relative to
the collection Of taxes. The people have
been talked and written into very unbe-
coming state Of jubilation over the Demo-
cratic successes in New Orleans. Massa-
chusetts, Kentucky, Ohio and Delaware.
It is possible that some Of them may he
deceived into believing that this tempo.
rary lull in the political storm is g pre-
lude to the restoration Of the immense
values los: By the war, and its at
tendant consequences; tina. any local
circumstance which strengthens the con-
fdence Of politician in ward in the
solvency OF another will extend to al! the
financial centres, and that capital and
business will come rolling in upon Us
headlorg. Perhaps the immediate pros
pect Of release from tie burden os sup
porting dua! government may have ex-
hilarated few, though we suspec: the
jubihtion comes from entirely different
causes. For every position about 70 be-
come vacant, both in municipal and
parochial Offices. there are at the least
calculation ffty candidates. While they
are such they are hopeful and naturally
jubilant. To all these there is a great
crisis pending which the next week will
probably evolve. Forty-nine cut Of the
fifty will fail, Of course, and then
VIII COME the great reaction. Even
those who are fortunate enough
to get places will End it hard scratching
to live on their salaries, or the promises
to pay them which alone the city can offer.
The thousands Of men who will be turned
away entirely empty handed will begin to
inquire "What have we gained by this
famous victory" They will be no better
OF than they were before. and vote the
fourteenth Of September and the :o-ch.
light procession cheats and snares. 1t
the new Council refuses to make any re.
duction in expenses, the rich men and
corporations which have suffered from
such heavy drains, will be disappointed
and let their complaints be heard in
way that will no: be pleasant. # the pa
tronage is cut of, there will be such
hubbub among the rank and file Of the
twenty -fou. OF twenty-five thousand voters
as will represent pandemonium in little.
A prominent citizen the other day sug-
gested in one Of those set interviews with
a reporter, that there was no necessity for
SO much money to be spent every year for
assessing city property. The idea was no
doubt a good one, and the judgment o.
tie speaker founded upon correc: prin-
ciples. bu: the gentleman is denounced q.
the stree: corner gatherings and even in
the cars as probable Radical in
disguise. It was no: for such q resul:
that the clans Of the unte,7iied have
loiled and drilled and fought and
voted. !: was not to celebrate the
ashering in Of such raisinonious policy
that several thousand men tramped them
selves into WEAKNESS and exhaustion in
the vain and empty parade last Saturday
night. If such talk ;tha: is, Of cutting
lown expenses is'meant for effect. it is all
veil enough; but if the orator means real
he will find that "the people"
will no: stand it.
So tina: after all the prospects are favor
BILE for city affairs going on for an in
leinite time in the old grooves. and the
Ugh expectations Of those who for the
,ast week have rent the air with loud !
'uzzas Will fade away one by one, until |
be next campaign shall bring its new
eceptiors. to be followed by the sane
ID results.