New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-06
HOW OUR CITY Is SOLD.

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= grant enterprise in this direction. Th
II opposition press has thus come down
Q, depend for subsistence upon the nickel
paid for daily sensation, or the patron
age awarded for political abuse. Thi
u deplorable necessity has compelled th
press to herald with the most horribl
le headings all the crime which is committe
here as in other cities. Strangers hearin
the pack of trained newsboys rushin
IS through the streets, proclaiming fire
70 murderl suicide! defalcation! or elope
ment! would suppose that New Or
!: leans surpassed Gomorrah in its wick
J. edness. When the stranger reads
in the same papers, that the city is ruined
the State bankrupt, that gang of Repub
lican robbers can with difficulty be pre-
vented by the pure Democratic patriots
from destroying the levees, and leaving
l the State and city to destruction, what
motive has that stranger for planting his
money or his family in Louisiana. We
: should say, none at all. So immigrants
avoid this State and city, Of which the
press proclaims such terrible state of
morals and so hopeless condition Of
commerce.
Among themselves the opposition papers
are cats and dogs. Not one of them quotes
from another, or even acknowledges the
existence of its rivals, except to critlcise
its want of zeal in the common abuse OF
the Republicans. to ridicule the late at
tendance of its reporter at a fire or an
inquest
If from any accident one of these jour-
nails falls behind the rest in the sensational
cry of its trained pack of newsboys, its
diminished receipt Of nickels must be re-
placed by renewed assault upon the
character and credit of the city.
This practice of appealing to the party
hatred of the people and that love of the
horrible which will make some persons
withhold q nickel from the charity |
box to purchase full account of
bloody murder has its disadvantages.
The opposition press is afraid to turn
for moment to the commerce or
manufactures of this city. 1t can not
treat intelligently one question of federal
aid to our agricultural necessities. If the
Picayuae were to discuss in column the
prospects Of an appropriation to repair
the levees, improve the river or extend
the Southern Pacific railroad, the cam
paign paper would trumpet through the
streets Grant drunk in the lobby
"kellogg shot atr' "Pinchback gone
over to the Democrats " and the whole
nickel crop of that edition would be
dropped in the hat of the campaign
paper. An editorial paragraph would in
innate that the Pic had backed down or
been bought up, and the decline in the
would impel the Pic to an
immediate vindication Of its loyalty to |
turmoil and hostility to the government it
lives under. The conductors of the Pic
would Immediately Stop the foolishness Of {
writing sense, and the next issue would
be ablaze with abuse of the Radicals,
while the criminal calendar would be en- {
ricbed with an avalanche OF crime, and
made memorable by procession of notes
Of admiration.
We think the opposition press is COM .
hitting great mistake. A trained gang
Of 500 barefooted boys, who occupy the ,
of service in fighting over cigar
tumps or gambling for peanuts, may be :
! cheap means of circulation, but what is I
o become Of these boys in the future? !
Who ever heard of an opposition paper +
.dvocating education or ''trades?" These q
DOOR little paupers may run on until, find Q
ng the value attached by the journals to /,
he crimes which they cry, the transition
rom the proclamation to the practice a
aay be unhappily too facile. Poverty n
nd bad or vile associations do much to ri
elnoralize, and the unfortunate boys, R
aucated alone to the dlffus sion OF GRIM fe
nal literature, may find that it would a,
ave been better for them to have been at
,hool or learning trade.
The damages to the substantial interests
the city inflicted by sordid and sensa- -
onal journalism are far more serious. Pr
o secure themselves against political pro- Ia
prevent their advertisements 81
eing ordered out and given to some re
ore virulent political organ, the OPPOSE Gu
on press must TEEN with abuse of every ar
ing Republican. 1t must set on the al
'eakfast table daily dish OF defamation, IN
mixed and followed by courses culled III
ON all the partisan columns and cor tn
spondences of the World, the Tribune tn
ID the Couyier-JournoI. This style of eli
delights the Democratic place sp
lnters here, but it alarms the Democratic OIL
aders elsewhere. So far from these last pa
wing been aided by the violent deeds tri
their New Orleans allies they have
id that they have had to defend tn
against the instruction and pa
arcEy with which those allies have been ag
arged. The same tone of the opposi- se'
n press discourages Republican immi- he
ltion, and turns the enterprise and ros
pital belonging to Republicans-and it 1t
believed that they have some of both dat
other parts Of the country Between me
! daily conflict over the nickels and ira
5htly soliciture for the advertising gel
Ironage, the opposition press contains tina
solutely nothing that a stranger would S