New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-02
pEsT1TuTIoN AND ITS REMEDIES.

that the secret can no longer be con cealed
That the same paper should gently init
mate that: /. There is in this city "a
body Of idle men bent on agitation and in.
fuenced by reckless demagogues, and
that it is IAN object of alarm and dissatis.
faction" 2. There is also "a body Of I'M
fortunate men suffering for the necessa-
res Of life, and asking for employment:
and relief"
The Picayuae might, perhaps, CONSOLE
date these two conditions, and say a body
of unemployed men are destitute, and
thus subject to be Influenced by reckless
demagogues.
We must enter a plea for these destitute
and unemployed. The political asitators
have told the mechanical laborers Of this
city that there Mas but one impeachment to
their restored prosperity, and that this
might be recovered by installing Demo-
Gratis in all the Offices of the State and
city. These interests postponed their
troubles, and bore with their own destitu-
ton until the consummation Of one condi-
ton of their welfare. When the Democracy
obtained control of the city government,
the mechanical laborers logically thought
the millennium of regular wages would
commence. They have thronged the
parlors and purlieus of the administla-
tors. They have awaited the manifesto
ton Of some system for restoring the
prosperity or of arresting the decline Of
the city. Apparently, these authorities
have been exclusively occupied with salts
flying the demands Of the bond and war
rant holders. Has there been any plan
proposed for the employment Of the des-
titute? Is there any fund for the subsist-
ence Of their dependent members?
Neither the one nor the other. Some
most violent and revolutionary men who
have headed armed resistance to the law,
and have sworn that the government was
insupportable, have received lucrative
Offices. They have disappeared from the
arena Of party strife and pursue the gain
full process of official fortune as their pre-
decessors have done.
1t is natural that men who have aided
the Democracy in every measure alleged
to be essential to restored rights Of labor
should be disappointed at the resulting
increase of restitution. 1t is natural that
they should be enraged, and even rem
dered desperate by the torturing Of hope
less want. Nor is it strange that the
arms distributed among them, to secure
them bread by violent change of gov
eminent. should be retained with some
wild idea of effecting the same object.
The daily increasing restitution must
as certainly result from daily diminish |
ing trade, as the sutferings Of shipwreck |
are enhanced by dwindling rations or
waning water. Suicide caused by hopeless
restitution has become almost epidemic.
From these causes the popular discomfort
may assume forms of violent expression.
Men We're told within two years past that
he political oppression to which they
aad been subjected would Justify the over
brow of the local government by force
If arms. May the same men not deem
hat the physical oppression of the sfarm-
RS general of the meat, vegetables.
light and lottery, with that Of water and
he wharves now to be added by the Dem
,cratic Administrators, will in like man
Ter vindicate some equally lawless and
ven more violent selt-redress? The des-
,erate women, who believed that the
,ing's monopolists held in their maya
ines the bread denied to their children,
marched from Paris in long and terrible
recession to demand relief under
be kings windows. But for that
estitution that king might have worn
is crown, or have had a head to
ear it on. It is not safe to
eceive or Cypress a people. While We
ave no fear of communism which the
w will not suppress we sincerely feel for
lie people who may be misled to that
,icide by platoons which sometimes fol-
ws resistance to the law. There IS an
her mode to prevent the possibility of
he dangers Swallowed by the Picay4ne.
is by an organized effort to employ the
eople. We agree with the Picoy,tne and
18th the relief association that it is our :
lty to make donations of money and
for the present relief Of the
'stitute. But can this system be carried :,
1t? Everything which surrounds Us
owes that it can not be. The surplus
pltal of this city has been consumed or +
moved for fourteen years past. We AZ
ubt whether there has been within that -
Rod any accumulation in any special case Il
lich has survived, while we know BY the 81
cline in assessments and the increased y
xes that the values vested in real estate "
We already declined. This fund Of l
arity has been greatly impaired and AN
lst be exhausted. The people and thei, o
st friends must be convinced that the IL
use of political abuses, even if true. is
sufficient to account for the restitution '"
ich surrounds us. We expect this con- ai
sion from our political opponents, and pa
return we will concede that the Demo- al
tic politicians in Office can not extend oS
relief to INDECENT industry which they Al
'mised. Can not the press, which, it
ms, has to do everything for public re- al
!, convince the property owners, and ",
n the Administrators, that an organ. a.
effort must be ma de To 1lant and fos Ha