New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-26
ANOTHER MASS NETTING.

turbulent old Athens, or the volatile
Paris OF the eighteenth century uever
witnessed q greater number Of mass meet
inGs in given length Of time than New
Orleans. The people" are annoyed by
''calls TO duty On almost any and every
pretezt il cases where the Democratic
Place hunters fail to secure their game.
Mass meetings on paper have grown to
be chronic nuisance, ard are so regarded
by the public. But TIE practice OF issu-
ing flaming calls to the masses and re-
ceiving responses from a few hundred
curiosity seekers still continues, and the
door-keepers 70 newspaper columns are
powerless TO keep the ag!tators out, or
prevent their occupying front seats. We
are on tie eve Of another snail mass
meeting. As not many people are ex-
pected to come out, hall capable Of
holding three or four thousand
people has been rented, to which
the property holders, bordholders,
mercantile and mechanical bosses are in
vited to repair next Monday night to in
dorse the Mayors message. We presume
that among other choice literary entertain
men:s to be offered on the occasion will
be the reading Of the erudite document,
and the final hurrah will be taken as an
Endorsement Of its eccentric recommends.
tons We will concede, if such conces.
sion in time be deemed sufficient to for.
stall the necessity of the meeting, that the
message will be ratified. VINO ever heard
OF mass meeting in New Orleans at
which the cut and dried 'Whereases"
and "Resolves" were rot ratified mem con?
So we will write it down in advance, that
the St. Patrick's Hall meeting will swallow
the Mayors message pure and simple,
with all tie enthusiasm Of innocent
credulity, all the amiebility Of ignorance.
Let US make q brief inquiry into this
subject and see what principles "the
people are about to be called upon to
ratify.
1t is the cid, old contest between those
who have nothing but the work of their
brains and hands to rely upon for exist
ence, and that other class who want to
live in ease and elegant leisure on a
small capital. The property owners"
OF this city find the few hundred dollars
income which they are able to extort from
the poorer classes, to be insufficient to
maintain them in the style which they
affect to keep up. A proposition to exc
out their scanty means in any other man
ner than Withholding the taxes, disband-
ing the police, closing the schools, and
increasing the number CT siuecure posi-
tons at the City Hall. is invariably re.
ceived with scorn and contempt. The
mind Of the average property holder has
pretty much settled down into the belief
that it is difficult if not impossible to de-
fray the necessary expenses of the city
and maintain an army of political barna.
cles in office Besides, there are the i'm
Fortunate foreign spinsters who stand
firmly on their coupons and de-
mand their own. They can not be
put Of, because they have shown that a
court of justice is open to them, q tri-
bunal of high jurisdiction, and irresistible
power. So, under the pretenss that
.hree hundred thousand dollars for the |
schools, and about five hundred thousand |
dollars for the police is an eItravsgant
'stimste, they propose to do away with