New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-27
ANTI-MONOPOLY.

ANTI-MONOPOLY.
Our French friends of the Bee recognize
well the restoration here of grants of pop.
ular consumption in monopoly, and the
farming out of the taxes which once pos
sessed their own sunny land, and have
been the chief cause of the French revolu-
tons. The nobility were once exempt in
person and property from all taxation.
The ecclesiastical department of the gov
ernment was favored in a similar manner.
So our French friends, recognizing the
evil In this country which has inflicted
so much mischief in their own, very prop
erly caution our unsuspecting and igno-
rant people of the consequences. The
Bee says the union of real estate owners
was never more necessary than at present,
when We are under the complete rule of
monopolies. There is here established
the double monopoly of the stock land
ing and the slaughter Of animals for the
food Of her people. The monopoly Of
the markets and of gas has also been
re-established. After all these monop.
olies, so obstinately and impudently
established to the injury of the pub
lie, the Bee demands to know if very
soon there will not be granted a mo-
nopoly of -four; for the sale of bread
of meat, meal and vegetables; clothes,
hats and shoes; wood, coal and medi-
cines; for the privilege of cultivating the
earth; and, at last, for the sole privilege
of sepulture.
In word, our French fri ends fear there
will be reproduced here, in land of
equality, all the abuses of the reign of
the blessed Bourbons. All these abuses,
present and prospective, the Bee is pleased
to attribute to what it calls Radical legis-
lation.
Now it is very strange accident that
in this minute and extended list of mono
poles the Bee should have omitted sew.
eral, which we will supply. There is the
lease of the New Canal, the monopoly of
the levees, the former monopoly and
present valuation Of the waterworks and
wharves, with that of the 7irage de la
Loterie de rEsM de la Louisiana, daily ad-
vertised by the Bee. Let US add these,
and fair schedule of the effort of the
few to live from the labor of the many
will be as obvious as it was in the DAYS
when the mistress of French king could
have given or sold the bread, salt or
meat-if the nation had INDUCED in that
luxury-in monopoly to any minion who
pleased her fancy.
Of course, as the mission of the Bee
appears to be anti-Republican, it spreads
among those who disdain to read the
American language the belief that all
;hese monopolies which are and are to be
nave arisen from Republican legislation.
There has long since been presented the
violence in the legislative journals of the |
with which the Democratic
participated in and the |
ecord evidence in the courts of the ex- |
ent to which these same jurists profited |
y this unjust and unwise legislation. 1t
nay be added that the flnctionary whose
ignature gave vitality to most of these
nonoplies, when discarded by the Repub-
can party for the faults of his admins
ration, was taken up and adopted by the
nti- Republicans.
This grant of monopolies so abused
'as no novelty in Louisiana. Similar
xclusive grants-as that of the Water
'orks-had been made before the war.
he right to tax the people in their daily
Sc and consumption was never so abused
3 at present. Among the curious omis-
ons of the Bee may be enumerated
lie monopoly of the wharf and water
orks proposed by the Democratic
ommon Council. Such is a fair
atement of responsibility for the enact
ent of these monopolies, and it now re-
aims for the Bee to tell arho hold these
Are they-are any one Of
and administered by Repub-
cans? We repeat the inquiry as to each
detail. Every one of these monopolies
held, as We may assert it was solicited,
7 members of the anti-Republican or
party. Now when the Bee
nds to collect its bill for lottery puff
i'll it be paid by some Radical? Or when
inveighs against the rapid Inflammation
its gas bill, will some carpet-bagger
plain how it became necessary to make
e people pay for their own grant of
onopoly? All these monopolles-al
thout. e1ception-are held and ad-
by anti-Republicans. All this
uel exaction upon the toll of the
niiing and the ignorant pass
ough the tenacious grippe of Demo-
at or anti-Republican. To charge the a
elusive wrong Of this system upon the g
embers Of the Republican party, who g
anted these monopolies to Democratic o
licitation, and to Democratic abuse, v
'uld be very much like discharing the .,
lsoner upon an indictment for murder T
administering poison, as an innocent
d even meritorious member of society,
d hanging the apothecary who sold the