New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-20

Prhp prprpIIcAy man has monopoly o
eli tho good nuns provided in New Or
leans The REPUBLICAN has other monopo
les but they are all Of the "dlVldeno
order. and if there is one thing more that
another that the New Orleans kEPuBLicAs
bankers after, it is dIvldeno'- '""'""
Monitor.
Thanks, good Democrats. To banker
| is to long for something which the
laundering man has not. We do not
know why the divided question should
arise in this connection. We are not
wealthy, yet We have never paraded our
poverty TO the world On the contrary,
the Monitor recently said of itself, 'Our
only capital is the ability with which our
journal is conducted" We certainly
have never hankered after the dividends
likely to be declared on such assets. AS
! to monopolies, it should be remembered
that everything in New Orleans, except
newspapers. is run on the monopoly
| plan. 1t was so from the beginning, and
continued when Fulton. and Livingston
had the exclusive right to run a steam
boat. Out Of monopolics have been Gre
ated fund for the support OF in
digent Democrats. They allowed tolls
to be collected for driving Ola
public highway to the lake; they allow
private individuals to exact tolls on a
canal open to the sea: our streets are
sprinkled and lighted by monopolies; our
meat is killed and sold and increased in
price by the same process: a lottery mon
opoly relieves the working people of small
change though they would be no better
off if we had dozen lottery companies
instead Of one-and tn, City Council
wishes to turn over the waterworks and
wharves to individuals who shall have ex-
elusive control of them, whether or not
the people like it. a poor widow has to
pay seventy-fve dollars for sewing ma
chine which costs fifteen dollars, because
of monopoly. Anybody can star. a
here. and keep it going, too. if |
be can only borrow the money. Five new
papers have been started here within two
months. Some Of them are running yet.
We are glad to have seen the remarks of
the Vicksburg conscience. or iron-clad,
as it may be, for it gives opportunities for
saying something foreign. We are told
that number Of pea-shooting pa
pers frequently fire at us, particularly
one in Shreveport. It reminds us
to apply a profane remark once
made by an old Democrat or outlaw of
California. Seeing in the hands of an
Enemy new weapon Of the pepper-box
pattern of pistol he was much interested
u its beauty, though it could scarcely kill
baby at short range. The old miner
atistied himself looking at the pistol,
nd finally said to the owner. "See here.
you ever shoot me with that, and find
out. I'll lick you like hell" Some one
AS told us that we have been demolished !
paper called the Tangipahoa Dem-
crat. but we have not found it out and
ct that pass. Vicksburg we judge to be
very lively place for newspapers. Lake
'ok his Times to jackson, and LETT the
democrats in possession Of the field. The
lsrald got the tax lis. printing
ON the colored sheriff, and became +
hat is called an Independent journal,
lying no harm or good of any one. and
eering carefully between facts and false. F
pods and touching neither. as indepsn-
'nt journals sail. Besides the tax list
e Monitor had another cause for envy.
6 the Herald. We allude to the fact that F
r: g. 3. Lewis. o: the Vicksburg Herald F
IS lately become quite popular as = F
writer. and has had manv Of +
articles copied into the Detroit Free
'esS' his contribution to the Herald was +
ry regular, and his fame is Herald glory f.
wv we make no claims to being funny F
peclally in no: weather. and we are not -
eased at the attempt Of the Monitor to F.
'ns1er the Vicksburg strifes and iealous.
TO New Orleans. The Bulletin has Fe
en- behaving very we'll Of late, and not
'ns'andlng the insinuations Of the F.
'"'toT. 1t Is as successfully humorous 10 Fo
we'll can be under the circumstances
g people and the press of New Orleans ro
d. peace and we warn the Vicksburo
a-shooters not to waste ammrn;t;o, Fo
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