New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-17
MORE DEMOCRATIC INCONSISTENCY.

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| If it is wrong, as the Democratic press
try to make it appear, for the manager of
theatre to sell first, second or third
class ticket of admission to their per-
formances to colored person, why is it
not equally wrong for our merchants,
butchers, bakers, ETC., to sell their goods
of different grades to the same class of
persons? The merchant is permitted to
! enjoy the profits arising from sales made
to our co]ored people without exciting
the prejudice and displeasure Of their
white friends and neighbors; and so is
the butcher, baker, and in fact all classes
Of tradesmen. Thousands of our we'll to
! do colored people find no difficulty in
making purchases at Holmes and other
leading dry goods establishments in our
city; and We have yet to learn that any of
our first class grocery stores, wholesale or
retail, have ever refused to fill an order
for groceries made by colored per-
son when there was no question about
receiving the money for the same. We
will venture to say, without fear CT con-
trad;ction, that Schmidt & Ziegler, E. J.
Hart 4 Co., Smith Brothers & Co., nor
any of the first class firms in their line
that are doing business in our city
have ever refused to fill a bill for
colored person. where the money
was in sight, be he a well-to-do planter
from the country or thrifty resident of
our city. And when it is recollected that
we have thousands of Just such people as
these in our midst it does not require an
unusual amount of insight to see that
their trade in the aggregate goes to make
up very considerable item in the COM
MERGE of New Orleans. There is also an
other class of colored people here who,
although they do not have as much money
to spend, and what they have they obtain
by hard labor, yet their money is just as
welcome to our tradesmen as the money |
of the laboring classes of white people, |
and no censure is heaped upon our
tradesmen for selling even to this poorer
class of colored persons. They can re-
ceive them into their stores-even solicit
them to come in-or other places of bust
ness, without exciting any unfair preju-
dice even on the part of the press. But
when the managers Of our theatres, act
ing in obedience to law, attempt to avail
themselves of the benefits OF an unre-
'tricted trade in their line of business,
aoldlng themselves responsible to the
public for the good management of their
establishments, they are held up by the
Democratic press as doing something ex-
remedy wrong; and pointed as objects
worthy Of the censure Of the very
radesmen who have been long profting
~ the trade of the colored people VIII ON
he Democratic press would shut out
rom our theatres; thus depriving a
ranch of business in our midst of ad-
antages that are enjoyed by all branches,
our hotels and public saloons.
Really, neither justice nor COM
non sense is exhibi ted in such conduct.
u other and much better regulated COM
aunities in this country and Europe color
5 not made chief line of distinction.
character in such communities, and not
dior, gains the person the proper recog-
ition in society. The admission OF we'll
ehaved colored persons to our theatres
ill never prove degradation to the
ruly exalted in society here, while it will
eneit the managers and propri etors Of
ur theatres by giving them the same
rivileges that are enjoyed by all our
usiness men. This prejudice against {
DIOR works no good in Louisiana, aud it
lust be apparent to the non-partisan and
nprejudiced mind that there is no reason
lat it should exist, except to make capt. ,
i for the Democratic party in the next
election.