The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-08
UNCOMMON SENSE.

40 the EUlCOr OF tu0 n. ". buleLlQ.
The following is taken from co mmunica
ton in this mornings (Dec. 7th) Picayu.c
''Large numbers Of the delinquent tax payers
and large in amounts due, are abundantly able
| to pay, and are only waiting with the hope OF
being able to pay in deprecated Obligations
| OF the city, encouraged by the course hereto
fore adoptel by preceding Councils. 1t is to
this class that the people Of New Orleans are
indebted for furnishing its fair name. the de
structlon OF its credit, the default in the pay
ment Of is interest on the public debt, and
the compulsion OF it's policemen, school teach
ers end stipendiaries to resort to CaroEdelet
street to sell their hard earned warrants, on
which the daily bread Of their families de-
ponds, at a ruinous sa7riice." and is signed
"ComElOn Sense"
If the nom de plume is correctly put, it is
conclusive to my mind that the article or fac
ulty or attribute called common sense has
now a days become SO lamentably deteror-
ated that the the sooner it is thrown away,
gotten rid Of, the better it would be for the
world, his wife, and all outsiders The state
ment that "large numbers of the delinquent
taxpayers, and large in amounts due, are
abundantly able to pay, is an objectionable
and egregious mistake for the tact Is, that
three-fourtns Of the delinquents are miserable
unfcrtunates, owning small properties assessed
at twice and three times the amount their
properties would sell for if they could be sold
1T alb and won't average Sl50 original tax due
by them, even upon the over assessment put
upon the properly.
A. to the charge tha. the fair name of the
city is being furnished and it. credit being de-
stroyed by those graceiess persons who, either
through poverty, can't pay the swindles called
taxes, OF who, on principle, refuse TO be swim
died, and won't pay them, it is an open sub
ject for discussion, on which, | suppose, warm
arguments would arise between the opposite
sides, according as the one was an iunoceh
Hi,d pa.ty, holding seven per cent gold bonds
purchased at Sc On the dollar, and whistlins
for his interest, and the other a property
holder who is being taxed to death to
pay levies in the interest of certain rings
who is DESTROYS Of paying all his honest opli-
cations inciuding constitutional and legti-
mate taxation), but who, thanks to Warmoth-
ism, keloggism and ringsm generally, finds
himself as regards real estate pretty much in
the fix OF certain parties at the cl OF the
late unpleasantness regarded Confederate
more they had Of it The worse
off they were ard taking into the argument,
as for granted, that s.. on the dollar is pre-
sumptive and priaa tGcie evidence both OF the |
innocence Of third parties and the validity Of
the bonds.
But what touches me most III the above ex- |
tract OF Common Sense, is the pa hetic reference
TO the police as the clty's and to tie school |
teachers also. 1t is enough to make the heart
Df even White Lacquer melt within him to
,hink Of these worthy servitors OF the city,
suffering. I imagine that the Police Board
as they read it, and as tor the School
Board, Dibble, Pinchback, LongstreS, Booth
~, ". &. Brown, ct It ontne genus, they have
been SO overcome by the pathos OF the
illusion that | haven't seen one OF them on
he street to-day Oh ye real estate owners,
whose houses have been burslarzed and
chicken roosts cleaned out, under the vigilance
If that gallant city police, won't you come
onward to relieve these worthy stipendi4res
II the city, pay up your taxes and relieve the
COR innocents.
II the new city administration follow the
uggestions Of Common Sense" they will
ind themselves wonderfully lacking in that
rticle, as | comprehend it. They had better
Zoe their own row. and not try and wiring
legal taxes from an overwhelmed people.
hey may very soon want help from that
eople against Kellogg, Packard x Co They
lust elect whom they viii make their triends-i
he people or the brokers and boudholders.
ScOlIytoS SENSE