New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-09
THE DoCToRs AID THE ooI0HBR.

- It is natural that when the patient is i
extremities each Of the doctors shoul
advise the best remedy. It is not an un
. common thing for some medical adviser
to say if the patient had taken better car
OF himself bis health would have bee
better. 1t is not altogether an origina
lobservation that if even now he would g
back on the irregular habits Of his life it
duration might by prolonged. Amonl
other advisers who surround the fnancia
, couch OF the sick city is Mr.. Estlin, VIII
administers quite prolonged prescrip
t ton of two columns in the Bulletin. W.
apprehend the patient is comatose ant
I oblivious
1t demands rests, even if it shall have K
go under the tombstone of bankruptcy e
get it. WHAT, with the outcries of the in
dignant tax debtor, with the jmportunate
objurgations Of the weeping widows, i'm.
ploring orphans and fossil spinsters, we
| apprehend that the administration will
serve the prescription as the baby in the
! epitaph is said to have repealed the cup OF
life
Put the bite, potion By
and turned ssde >ad died.
The prescription of Mr. Estlin comes
too late. The discussion Of city credit is
now an affair of official resurrection.
We. however, take the paper Of Nr.
Estlin as one expression Of opinion upon
our city affairs, which will aid in forming
proper estimate Of the causes and cure
of our municipal misfortunes. We pass
over some severe structures upon the plan
of Messrs. Adler and Rotbschild TO con.
vert the bonds OF the city into lottery
tickets, and especially che undemocra.ic
imitation Of making tlese tickets circulate
as currency pro ta,io. Nj. Estlin. with
the REPUBLICAN. expresses surprise that =
creditor should be expected to suspend his
right to sue the city aud subject its prop.
erty. for half century with the hope Of
finding a: the expiration of that term a
better state of public faith or corporate
ability. As this scheme is, in professional |
phrase, :';still in the Wheel" present com.
ment ID useless.
The principal proposition Of relief con.
sists in capital surgical operation by !
which one-half this tumor of indueated
improvidence can be cut away. The rest
of the prescription is very mild, and ip-
deed degenerates from the heroic into
the homeopathic. as We shall sub.
sequently show. But the project Of
cutting the city debt down to fifty per
cent Of its face has been suggested and
dismissed on the ground stated by Mr..
Estlin. This was that while there is just
enough sovereignty left in State to re-
pudiate it's contracts, no such royal priv.
lege exists in corporation created by the
State. The REPUBLICAN made an argu-
nent at the time on the power of the
State over its agent the city, and sug-
,ested the inquiry whether this power as
principal would not extend to command
he agent to plead its inability to pay its
'wn debt just as the State had averred '
he inability Of the city to pay the greater {
,art of the State debt.
We have no more hope at present that
bis city debt will be scaled by consent of {
reditors than at first. This surgical por- ,
ion Of the advice must be postponed as j
to the patient in its present
ondition. 1t has not the strength to uu-
ergo the operation. a
Then there comes . sad vail over the | a
10 city, and sorrowful contrast Of it's =
resent and pas: condition. Nj. Es.lin '
sys: lr
] would favor q return 20 something e
ke the system that prevailed preyiyus 20 ),
10 war. y
We do no: concede that because the :.
'ys were old that they were good. On ,,
e contrary. tradition tells that in the
lys Of Roufignac, the councilmen were
'ry far from perfect in integrity. exem. :.
ary in morals. or constmmate in wis. :,
I'M. The municipalities owed debts :,
unded on similar system Of favoritism :.
at present, and these debts were con. y
lidated and adopted by the city. We =
We been familiar with the Common -
'uncil as elected from the wards, and :,
We learned enough from the manage. -
snt of railroad grants Of way. shell :. :.
ntracts. the funding of floating debt, -,
d city currencynot to speak OF wharf -
'ses. and the sale Of the city stock in -
. railroads TO satisfy as that there was ~
~ little more integrity at that day. and =, =.
d under that system than at the present ~
y. and under the present system. The -
1t remedy is this: "
Elect an unpaid Council composed Of r,
zen OF on. large property holders, whose
erect is the common int est of ell, and TO-
aide to them the entire management. wi
50 Mr.. Estlin in this Democratic city mi
uld exclude all but property holders Of
I large property holders at that. All,
:. Estlin. you are dissolving the dear. m,
dreams; you are outraging the softes. id,
.timepts Of the Democrats bosom. di.
MT say Democracy be ID" Mr.. wi
tin. Do not be profane. Do not as. TO,
the same right. to commit Demo- an
tic government to ''large property CHI
ders. that the Democracy Of Ohio has wo
run paper mill on currency. This is tn,
ad doctrine per Sc. even if uttered with | de,
blessing of Democratic dispensation clu
1epart from the faith for the good of ito
Church. He would also "abolish all ! abl