New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-24
REPUBLICAN STATE POLITICS.

We may anticipate such q despair on
the part of Democracy upon the probable
defeat Of their conspiracy that they will
tell the people of the Southern States
frankly that the Democracy has no other
measures of relief to offer than agitation
and revolution. That with the failure to
distribute the spoils Democracy will pass
in its checks, and canIid!y advise the
people to go elsewhere for further counsel.
Should the Democracy positively refuse
to make this candid declaration, the peo-
pie will probably make it for them. The
REPUBLICAN has Systematically con-
tended that the Democracy are and
always have been incompetent to
provide for the welfare of the peo-
pie. They have always maintained
the exclusive capacity of the upper classes
to administer the government. They
have always insisted that the ideas and
institutions Of the past were best adapted
to the wants of the present. Hence 1t
has not been necessary to allege that the
Democratic leaders want intelligence or
ability. It has been only essential to
the arraignment of administrative in
competency to prove that the Democracy
is and always has been opposed to social
and material progress to demonstrate
their unftness to be entrusted with the
reparation of interests destroyed by q
war that has rendered an adaptation
to the radical changes what it has effected
indisputable. Such change Of system
Democracy has stubbornly resisted, and
is utterly incompetent to effect.
The Republican administration of the
Southern States has no such impeachment
to encounter. Every Republican tavors
the education of all, the employment of all,
the happiness of all. They believe that
the only way to support q deadhead aris-
tocracy and carry the dead weight of their
principles and practice will be to develop
the moral and industrial ability of all the
people. A child born Of INDECENT parents
may become producer of values for the
State which will enable it to support the
pauperism Of seedy Last Ditcher. The
employment of capacity for labor, I'M
developed under Democratic theories, may
enrich and animate anew energies now
weighed down by the repressive influence
of Democratic ideas.
We trust the Republican State admins
tration will devote itself to the distinct
development Of this great difference be-
tween Republican and Democratic policy.
Let the Governor and Legislature elect
turn their attention to the introduction
of new industries for the employment Of
the unemployed. Let them add to our
system of public education chronological
schools for instruction Of boys and girls
in various mechanical arts, without the
necessity of apprenticeship.
New Orleans needs works for the manu-
facture of cotton. Why should not the
Legislature contribute to the erection Of
q model and experimental cotton mill for
each Of the two races? This may be done
by exempting investment in such prop
erty from taxation for some years. or even
by paying bounty for every yard or
pound of cotton woven or spun in our
city or State. There are many other in
dustries there is q large field Of COM
mercial development which the Democ-
racy does not comprehend and could not
oonscientiously permit-which Repub.
lican administration may aid greatly in
preparing. Not merely the sppropria'
tons and appointments Of the gov