New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-12
As YE SOW.

i. the intense suffering which unemployed
labor endures. The public should at leas
. know the extent of misery, and the ex
, treme of discomfort which may be appre
hended.
i The Times publishes loaded commu
nication in which the restitution ant
desperation of the unemployed is described
as very great and very dangerous. Ten
of thousands ''maddened by hunger gnaw
ing at their entrails can not be pacifed by
appeals to reason, nor can they be helt
in check by the force Of the law"
We are told:
They want bread, and if they can not
| get it they take the means to buy it with
wherever they can find them.
The communication makes an appeal tC
Capitalists" to advance the money to EN-.
ploy this dangerous and starving popula-
ton upon the levees and other public
works. They are admonished that
Something has to be done, and that quick.
| coming summer; and here the capitalist can
| alone bring relief, instigated not only by
humanity, but by self Interest. Our italics. ]
There follows, in the same issue, an
other communication signed "John
Lotus and Others" This is headed "A
Just Demand of the Laboring Men. ;"
What is this demand" That Admins
traitor Burke shall render an account of
''every man and grade under him" In
the course of this indictment against Mr..
Burke he is spoken of as an enemy to the
laboring class, charged with employing
his powerto relieve public restitution to
aid his schemes Of ambition. Represented
with intending ''to throw sand second
time in the eyes of Mr.. Lotus and others,
Mr.. Burke is told that if the demandants
had 'tknown half as much at the last cleo
ton" as they now do, he might not have
received the nomination. The merchants
are warned not to give their charities to
be administered by Mr.. Burke, and this
demand and this offensive placard con-
cludes, that if the officer addressed does
not comply with the demand, MIR. Lotus
and others "can infer the cause and take
further steps in the matter" |
Here, then, we see the nature of the public |
danger, not Of open and fragrant insur-
rection as in the Pennsylvania mines, not |
Of petroleum as in Paris, but Of undoubt- |
ed popular suffering, accompanied, we
fear, with the necessity Of military pre-
of public order, at some expense
Of life to such miserable and misguided
sufferers as may precipitate such an issue.
We desire that such deplorabae results
shall be avoided, and will labor to give
and content to the destitute
md the disconnected. It is in no sense
If party advantage that we remind our
political opponents that this sad state of
.ffairs is the direct consequence of their
party action. All who look at the actual
of New OrleaA must see that
Ter restitution is accompanied with an
immense diversion of trade to other ports.
The population of our city has increased
n ratio ore.rapid than the commercial
evenues Of the city justifes. These un-
Employed "ten thousands may have as
embed here on the expectation that the
of New Orleans would be re-
tored. They are to certain extent the,
formal and natural increase of local num-
'ers. What We complain of is that
ur political opponents have seized upon
he restitution inevitable upon stagnant
rade, and attributed it entirely to the po-
itical abuses of the Republican State
government. They have told these very
in the past campaign that it
7as not the New York canal that carried
Fl the trade Of New Orleans, but the
clique that deferred it from
oming here; that the bridges across the
and the tunnels through the
.lleghanies were merely adopted to avoid
Injecting the travel and trade of the
Vest to the corrupting tendencies, not of
40 climate, but of the carpet-baggers; ,
hat the railroad system, which carries .
Tenty-four out of twenty-five parts of
ne Western trade direct to Eastern !.
larkets, would never have been built
ut to escape the Radical robbers; /,
lat it was indispensable to assure ).
ages to unemployed industry that p.
lie offices Should be taken from Repub-
can incumbents-that the river would ..
,ntinue to overflow the lands until the '
egroes were deprived Of suffrage, and =
lat until the Republican party could be
cleaned out" it was wholly absurd to
lpect that the mouth of the river could be.
Under this theory 'John Lotus and :,
hers" were told that they must go for the ;.
epublican obstacle to bread and wages.
hey were infor med that there is an .,
iginal right inherent in community to
Fly any power and resist any law
hich they do notthink Just. They were :
zen armed and organized to overthrow q !.
,vernment because it denied their po-
;ical rights. a
We controverted this principle then as p
. do now. But if John Lotus 4 Co. G
ould apply the principle Of preserving u
cir rights to the rather higher considera- Il
IN Of preserving their lives, it would s.
1t lay in the mouths of those who have a
light the principle to except to its appli- II
ton. We, however, deny that Messrs. II
titus & Co. would have any right to tt
Ike the law in their own hands the n
cans to buy bread with, wherever they al
Il find them" whether in the banks or u