New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-17

OOCalneQ tneSe IrancnlSeS from various
Legislatures are not equally responsible for
the improvident grant Of these powers, as
the Democratic holders of these franchises
are exclusively obnoxious for the present
exactions upon the people.
The partisan character of these reports
is especially evident in the fact that the
whole volume of obloquy is directed
against the State taxes These have been
reduced by the Republican Legislature,
and the S52,OOO,OO of State debt which
had been nominally created before 1872,
has been limited by the Republican Leg
islature, which submitted the question to
the people; while the debt, thus reduced
to s25,0OO,000, has, by Republican
Legislature, been scaled down to 5,000,-
600. The city debt has, however, been
annually increased by funding the float
ing obligations, until it now stands at
half as much again as the State debt.
The Republican Legislature has plo-
hibited the increase of this debt. The
expenses of State administration and in
terest on State debt are between one and
two millions; those of the city administra-
tion are between four and five millions.
The Republican State administration col
lects from the landlords fourteen and a
half mills ad valorem; the Democratic
city administration collects from the same
landlords about twenty-five or three mills
ad yalorem.
We have approved the proposal to re-
duce al taxes. We have indicated the
inconsistency of those who would resist
tax on the house, and sell the tenant out
to pay his rent. We have shown the want
OF knowledge about our constitution,
which proposed the relief of property
from burdens which rested and remained
upon persons. We have exposed an alien
ignorance which expected persons repre-
sented in the Legislature to throw the
taxes off of property and meet the reduc-
ton by further contribu tions themselves.
When the Irish tenant fought the English
landlord, when the English absentee told
his Irish rack rent agent that no threats
against or violence inflicted upon the
agent should swerve the landlord from the
prosecution of the tenant we SYM
pathized with the miserable tenant. In
that country the tenant had no
voice in the remedy OF his own
wrongs; in this country he has, and,
while some of the emigrants from that
unhappy land of misrule have been so
fortunate as to become landlords them
selves, the great mass of European i'm
migrants who are tenants may themselves
secure the protection which in their own
native countries was denied them by their
masters-the landlords. We are there
fore for the reduction of all taxes, direct
and indirect, and shall sustain the land
lords and the tenants in all measures for
the reduction OF all taxes which affect
them in common with themselves.
We would add good natured word to
our friend the Orleanian. 1t was in the
journal devoted to literature
and the arts. 1t had undoubtedly the
same right to its political expression with
ourselves and others. Its organship Of
movement directed to the relief of burdens
on property or persons was legitimate
public service. When,S however, it be-
comes the vehicle for publishing violent
and unjust effusions of Democratic parti-
san politicians, We submit it only presents
the art Of defamation and the literature of
the ward club. In SO doing there is clear
infringement of the right of the Demo-
cratic organs, and may apprehend an in
juction, just as the play actors were in
hibited from uttering the disputed drama
of "The Two Orphans"