New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-28

stand as at present.
Our argument has been sound. It is
based on the principles laid down by the
republicans who founded the govern
ment, and We will abide by it, mistaken
by the blasts of defamation or the corro-
sion of calumny. What odds does it make
to this argument if the Republican State
government were usurpation? How
could this argument be impugned if it
were proven that the Republican officials
were as corrupt as Tweed or Lord & Co.?
We can not be diverted from the arrest of
a monstrous error by the nipping of incon-
sequential terriers at ones heels We re-
peat this charge of unequal and unjust
taxation.
The lords of real estate are too proud
and too petulant. They will not permit
reasoning to SHOW that they defeat their
own interests in caring for themselves
alone. At the close of the war it did not
occur to our real STATESMEN that the dis
organization of industry, the diversion of
trade and the development of new trade
centres might diminish the attractions of
New Orleans. They put up rents to ante
war rates. When trade did not react
there was no immediate reduction
of rents, and many tenants, after
remonstrance and efforts to pay
thought they could do better else
where or in some other business, or in no
business at all, here, and so silently year
after year rents were dragged down, aud
business stands left vacant until the taxes
have overtaken the rents and the present
deplorabie condition presents itself.
During this whole period the protective
tariff for the farmers general OF the mar
kets, the rates of license on labor have
continued. Rents, tariff on food and
water, tax on the right to labor, all accu-
mulate on the tenant Is it strange that
he should send his little goods or furniture
to auction and depart to some other COM
munity in which taxation was more equal,
and in which the profits of his labor bet
ter enabled him to bear the charges of
government
There wa published a few weeks since
a report from a charitable association in
the city showing nearly two thousand
people sent out of the city at the cost of
this charity. How many other persons is
it supposed left the city at their own ex-
pense? These emigrants were drawn
from this city by an incapacity to pay
rents and the burdens imposed upon labor
and enterprise. The diversion of trade,
the rate of taxation, and the continual
street wars have deprived the tenant of an
opportunity to earn his rents here, and
he has gone elsewhere to seek peace and
profit
We appreciate the interests of the land
lord. We know that many times when
the tenant is tormented by daily applica-
tons for rent which he is unable to pay,
the owner of the tenement is dependent
Upon the rents for the support of family
or to meet an obligation. The landlord
and tenant are struggling for the same
plank. The tenant has ten dollars He
needs market money. The landlord has
not ten dollars, and likewise needs market
money. Our suggestion has been that these
two interests combine and seek in con-
sideration of mutual wants an alienation
of common suffering.
We have omitted III the list of volunteer
statesmen the name of Counselor Crane,
because he has only appeared upon strong
personal and political solicitation, and
with patriotic purpose to save the State
by sacrificing his private ease and pecu-
mary interests to the public service.
In other cases the sage of the situation
has commenced by assuming for himself
an integrity altogether Incompatible and
a sagacity not to be deluded. He has in
variably denounced the Republican party
as unworthy of credence or respect. The
task of argument should be very easy upon
such terms. 1t would be pretty much as
if Counselor Crane should ask the court
to instruct the jury that the defendant had
70 standing ~ court, and that his wit
nesses should be altogether discredited
Such have been the concessa demanded
by the statesmen of our period, and even
with such advantages. They rest from
their labors when the newspapers decline
to pay gratuitous composition and correc.
ton on their communications, and their
works do follow them into oblivion with
wonderful rapidity.
IGNORANCE OR MALICE.
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