New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-06
4 TIME FOR EVERYTHING.

The New Orleans Times heads an arti
! Gle 1.-The Flush Times Of 1871" and Their
takes "a ramble through the sessions and
acts OF the past ten years" Ten years
would have taken us back to the era OF
law constituting failure to make labo,
contract q misdemeanor, Of the lease OF
the New canal: Of the levee bond issues,
the butchers meat monopoly, and would
have covered some other iniquities which
do not appear in the Tines summary.
| History would have shown che Times sus.
tanning aad prompting in Io72 the repueed
author of this whole system. and
endeavoring to defea: Governor Kei-
logg and other Republicans who
have achieved SO much for the reform of
the very abuses SO perpetrated. We do
not hold the present administration
! Of the Times responsible for the acts
! Of their predecessors. We claim that the
! Republicans Of the present are not re-
sponsible for those false apostles who have
been repudiated by the Republican reforms
Of the present administration, but if our
neighbors will carry their researches into
their own columns they will be astonished
to find that not one of these iniquitious
measure was attacked or exposed at
the time Of their passage by the Times
itself. Thatfearless champion of right, that
independent neutral was silent. Cerberus
slept. It was not until long years after
ward his bowling is heard for the
treasures lost during his slumber. We
have ourselves under the same title of
flush times adverted to these abuses in
legislation to prove that the Democracy
were responsible for some of the most
heinous acts which have been passed.
while they to-day hold the most profitable
monopolis which the Legislature has
ever granted. We have adverted to them
to show that only when a Republican
Legislature, chiefly Of negroes. were
owing to the contumacy of the Democracy
left in uhdisputed and exclusive control
Of the legislative and executive depart |
ments, did thus appear the first mani.
festations of those reforms. which, under |
a Republican Governor. have spread
new light of hope around US. We would |
suggest to our neighbor not to make his
too strict. lest he may find
some incidents in the history Of the
period which might go to prove that all
the profit of these flush times did not 90
TO Republican credit.
We deem this severe criticism Of pas.
abuses the best evidence that they have
passed the paying point in the future.
We hope the period is at hand when
neither a representative man OF journal
will DARE even to be silent when meas.
ire Of public expenditure is pending
Every year has, however, Its abuses. We
nave now city administration which !
las matronized several very equivocal
measures, such as the bond lottery
cheme, the monopoly Of the wharvss
nd the waterwotks.
When some future historian shall |
crutinize the legislation of this period,
'e may perhaps notice the facility with
which the peoples money was voted away
n one decade and the freedom in which {
be people themselves were hired out to
be monopolists in another. The merit.
owever, will be rather given to the jour- L.
ais who resisted an abuse, pending its
than to those who limit their
urative forces to post mortem demon. G
ration.
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