New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-02
A FEW DROPS FOR DUB MINT.

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iceberg.
A FEW DR0Ps FOB DUB MINT.
As an incident showing how fast Louis
lana is .shriveling into political insig-
nificance, we published the debate upon
the reorganization of our Mint It is not,
perhaps, proper to speak of its ''reorgan-
ization." The paltry appropriation of
fifteen thousand dollars is made with the
express purpose of preventing the lapse
of title to the property, conditional on its
occupation as mint. ..-...... =.
It was in vain Mr.. Sypher reminded
Congress of what had been done and
might be repeated at the Mint. Congress
was inexorable, and the only effect of the
discussion was to make the purpose of the
appropriation more distinct in legal
point of view and to define its precise
application. To this may be added the
total disregard of the great question of
outletimprovementa and the very cold water
thrown by some of the leading Northern
press on the proposal to nationalize the
levees. To this may be added the effete
debate on the new election bill and the
national aims bestowed upon miserable
and mendicant people.
We cite another proof of this national
indifference. The New York World,
which is q Democratic millenarian organ,
seizes upon the decline of our fortunes to
make little political capital It asserts
that "the sugar trade of the Mississippi
valley has been inclining to St. Louis in
stead Of going to New Orleans" and at
the close of damaging article on our
pretensions, says:
All things considered, New Orleans has
seen it's best days, and can never be the
entrepot it once was.
Such are some of the evidences that the
partisan remedy of reviving defunct
Democracy and bestowing upon its men,
beers offices in the Postofice and Custom
house, is q failure. Our remedies are
not political; they are material And
then to apply the reasoning to our head
ing, we will cite very sound truth from
the World article. 1t is thus:
The cadence of New Orleans must 90 on
unless some new source of wealth and en-
ployment shall arise, for the advantages of
the cotton trade alone can not sustain q
city Of its size or prevent it's depopulation.
Why, then, do we not dedicate our
selves, heart and soul, to the development
of this s.new source of wealth and employ
ment?" Why should the Fusion parti-
sans prefer to keep these sores of misery
open as perpetual appeal to partisan
support elsewhere? We challenge that
press or party to point to single meas
ure recommended by a single man of that
party to open one new source of wealth
and employment" in Louisiana. No. It
preserves as precious source of political
restoration every evidence of material
ruin. It would no more see trade and
agriculture restored to health than a pro-
fessional beggar would consent that some
revolving deformity to which he owes his
means of daily idleness should be cured
by an actual miracle or surgeons knife.
To have mint we must have bullion.
To have bullion We should have some
means of commercial communication with
bullion bearing countries. Have we a
steam line to Mexico, or to Central
America, or to Venezuela, Peru or Chill?
Not one. The government has declined
to allow such lines to be put on, and there
has been no united and public appeal that
this shall be done. 1t is possible, when
our Fusion friends reflect that there will
be mail agents put on these lines, it may
be an additional motive to overturn the
administration to get those places, but in
no other view will they care to aid in the
enterprise. The loss of this trade may be
charged, with the overflow, on the ''Radi-
cal" administration of Louisiana, and the
Fusion press wonld, perhaps, rather have
the issue than the trade.
But should not those who really take
an interest in New Orleans make a con-
certed effort to secure bullion enough to
run our Mint? The Republican press and
representatives will use their influence
with Congress to secure this indispensa-
BILE steam connection. The whole rail-
road line from here to New York is inter-
ested in opening this ''new source" of
travel, trade and specie transportation.
The slightest combination and co-opera-
ton will effect this and other measures CT
commercial regeneration. Will the Flu
sionists suffer this to be done? Will they
allow the material restoration of Louisi-
ana, or Do they prefer this example?
"And there was . certain beggar named