New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-11
WAIT FOB 1876,


} that while the professional politicians
wish to keep Louisiana on the gridiron,
J and do not wish the fees of the city OF
parish officers reduced by reform, there
: is another class of citizens who really
wish peace and economy. Speaking for
the first class the Bulletin says:
We are more than glad to know that no
| compromise can now be effected. ana that
| We are in position to demand our rights.
Mr.. Booth is reported to have said:
The Louisiana question had become ma
tiOnal one, on which the greatest political
minds Of the country were considering, and
in 1876 relief would come, and until then
the people must wait, because they could
not help themselves.
Mr.. Mari wishes to ''nationalize" our
troubles. So the people must wait, and
the city of New Orleans rest without
relief under her burdens. The Bulletin
thus states these burdens:
The debt OF the city, joined to her quota
of the State debt, is twOthirds of the actual
value of all her taxable property, and on
this she pays an aggregate tax mine per
cent?
It adds:
Holders of property who, by rigid self
denial, have heretofore paid their taxes,
have reduced themselves and families to
the pains and trials of poverty in the
attempt. All who can sell out have carried
their capital away or put it III securities
No money is cent here for investment as in
past years. The profits on the handling Of
! our cotton and sugar 60 elsewhere for
investment. Public debt and heavy taxes
Il hang to the necks Of our people like mill
| stones.
1t then pertinently asks:
| Can the politicians solve this great
| problem and save our city from total ruin!
Of course the ''politicians" can not,
because the leaders and organ Of
these politicians say that it is better
that the city should remain precisely
where she is than that a Legislature
should be constituted whose acts of
relief will be regarded as legal at
home and abroad. So We must "wait,
says Mr. Booth. We must have no |!
compromise, says violent partisan cam
paign paper "Wait, with paper going
to protest. "Wait while men Of mer-
camille enterprise drift into bankruptcy
and escape by suicide. "Wait," while
our commercial rivals drain away the last
drop Of our outbound commerce. "Wait'
while call who can sell OUT have car
ried their capital "away or put it in Sc
curities." "Wait'' until property shall be
eaten up by taxes, repairs and the ina
bility Of an unemployed people to pay
their rents.
We wish the people who are interested
in honest labor and rent payment to con-
slider what is to be expected in 1876.
There will be presidential election in
that year. The Republican nominee may
be defeated by the conglomerate factions
which desire the offices or are dissatisfied
with the administration. We have no
Of such result. but as all
things are possible in politics, we may
assume the success Of such combina- ,
ion, that the anticipations Of the pro- >
ohetic Booth are to that extent correct,
md that conglomerate President shall {
oe elected. Such an administration may =
punish and reward so far as its patronage /
within Louisiana may allow. It may put a
me White League leader into the Custom +
louse, another into the Postofice, appoint
Ir. Mari federal attorney, commission r
Ir. Booth as consul at Dublin, or bestow .
pom the Bulletin the marshals advertise .
lents. To these party appointments We v
hould have no objection. We should +,
eem the appointees properly rewarded for .,
trenuous services in behalf Of the party. Il
But we are compelled to remember that | r.
eyond these political heroes there are -,
lousands Of people and proprietors Of o,
lillions Of property who can not possibly
3 provided for even upon the elastic pay !;
Ill of our revenue and postal service. y
ct these thousands and these property q.
vners "wait" little longer Their ad- no
sers can, if rewarded in the manner !,
opposed, manifest even more philosophy n
the delay in the future that at present bo
We come, then, to examine the prospect III
r relief afforded by the national election ",
1876. Upon this subject we prefer the
Stimony of another than ourself. -,
OF all those who have suffered from the
normal condition Of Louisiana, we con- an
de that the city population below Canal 70,
rect have endured most. The sugar crop
s been in great part conducted by ON
ench Creole factors and planters. The in
oceeds of this crop have been expended n,
great part in the merchandise, rents, g,
hotels and amusements of ~,
at part Of the city. Very many prin- TO,
pal proprietors in the district referred to ue
side abroad, and expend no part Of their t;o
atal in the city except for repairs and roc
zes, which, it is true, pretty well absorb vb
all, but these expenditures by no means ~
exclusively to the part of the city in ~
itch the property is located. Many ~
lions of francs formerly invested here -
loans, or in property, have been with =
AVN. Commerce has been transferred ;,
good part from Chartres and Royal to 80,
Ter parts OF the upper city. l. {
t is, therefore, We infer that the Bee 7
so consistently and, We add without SIN;
npliment, so ably contended for reduc- any an!
n of city taxes, and for some modifca- elm elm
n of the city debt. Its plans for polit- RESI-
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