New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-18

up for themselves, and will conduct thei,
own interests without asking permission o.
their leaders.
WHO SUFFERS AND WHO Is TO BLAME
| Our afectionate neighbor of the Times
taking lively Interest in our welfare
offers the following statistics Of misfor.
tune, all of which it sagaciously attri.
butes to the advertisements:
The official organ drives thriving trade
nowadays in advertisements of eheriff's
sales, tax cOllectOrs's sales, constables
sales, marshals monitions and divers other
unhappy reminders of the distresses of poor
humanity in this distracted commonwealth.
In its issue Of Tuesday only twenty-one
columns are devoted to that cheerful litera-
sheriff appears to ba trOr bled with burn
ing desire to sell GU on du1dred and two
people. while tn Collector. strangely
retiring, contents himself with announcing
the misfortunes of Twenty-Five.
When the knights of the carpet-bag
who control the Times shall have had
leisure to look over their own files, it will
be seen that their journal has drawn from
the Golfers of the federal, State and city
government every dollar for public print
ing which could have been awarded it.
Students of local history will also learn
that the publication of the laws and other
public documents has been the perquisites
OF party organ from and before the days
OF the Democratic Courier, and up to the
days when the Democratic Crescent en-
joyed the same advantages. The latter
journal unfortunately trusted so far to the
generosity of its party as that claim of
$50, 600 for public printing was pretermit-
ted, cut off and repudiated under the limita-
ton Of public indebtedness. New Or
rivals should be more careful in de-
nouncing the Oldest inhabitants, Just
as juvenile critics Of other peoples
pedigrees are sometimes COMPOUNDED by
the exposure of some disgraceful flaw in
their own. But this point is not worth
discussion. If we understand the Times
as renouncing any claim to the public
printing in case it should become within
its reach, we will, without consulting
our friends of the Picayune and Bulletin,
assume that it shall never be sent out of
the State while they have type or a
platen.
But more serious view must be taken
OF these statistics. If ''the official organ
drives thriving trade" from advertising
sheriff. sales, what must the sheriff him
self, the tax collector, clerks, constable,
marshal, and even the mortgage and An-
ditor's offices, derive from the same or
a similar source? We can advertise the
sale of building in one square; for this |
we may receive 81 or 50, but this build |
ing may sell for 500, 900. On this the
sheriff's and other law charges may be
$1,000. What is the cost of the advertis-
ment to the ruin Of forced sale with |
legal costs? The Times attributes the
torment of the smallpox to the pustule
occasioned by the disease. This is a
treatment far too fippant for the gravity
IT the subject Let US see upon whom
his ruin and responsibility really rests.
'The sheriff is troubled with a hungry
lesire to sell out one hundred and two
people" is he? While the tax collector is
ontent with the more moderate number
# twenty-nine. Very facetious in the
[;mes-as funny as the list of murders
which the Picayune deems SO ridiculous
IN examining the advertisements to which
be Times refers it will be found that the
ity of New Orleans, through its Demo-
ratio Administrators and its Democratic
herif, has obtained sonnet hing upward of
fly judgments, which are executed upon +,
eal estate. We note fourteen judgments
gainst two unfortunate parties. There
re- the names of good many widows {
efendants. We can not, of course, es- I
mate the value of the property on which !
zecution has been levied. 1t may be
orth helf million. 1t may be sold for /
fourth of that sum. 1t may be bought t
by the insolvent city as has been much q
her property sold for taxes. Who, then,
'es the Times or the reader deem respon- q
bic for this sacrifice? The Times viii, \
spond, it all grows out of tie ADVERTISE
ent. The reader and the suffering 81
'ople sold out will say that it has been n
g heartless and improvident creditor. O
we look beyond the city sales we find I
" on account of taxes due the State. Of !,
9 private executions We have no right to s,
eak, except to say that the debts are at n
asst as apt to be due to Democrats as to o.
epublicans. 1t may be remem bered that a
hen it appeared that large amount of it
dgments had been given in the Red
yer parishes by Republican judges, it
peared on reference to the docket that
9 suits had been in greatest part brought k
Democrats. We suppose one man c.
ese times wants his money, whether cl
larry or other debt, about as bad as an d.
her. 1t would be very frivolous to Oil
arge the embarrassments of the people CO
one party or the other, and nothing tt
cept contemptuous estimate Of popu- st
intelligence could attribute the sacrifice ef
homestead and the ruin of q family re
the circumstance that the act of sale NJ
S advertised in the REPUBLICAN instead L.
in the Times til
SLIGHT MISREPRESENTATION PROBA- 70
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