The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-03-03
The CowarslIy Conservatism of
Money.


kellogg, the agent of the Associated Press
sent the following dispatch from New
Orleans
The Bulletin says: eve learn that
of merchants and capitalists OF
New Orleans is in circulation to-day protest
of Representatives in the matter ofimpeach-
ment. The memorial dweIis on the, incalcu-
lab Q damage thus movement, if persisted
III, Will entail upon commerce and business
of this CITY,"
supplementary to this, a dispatch follow
ed on the 18th stating that the Manager OF
the Ci airing House in New Orleans, the head
centre of the money power, had written II
letter TO the Times opposing Kellogg's i'm
peachment.
ga memorial of merchants and capital
lists OF New Orleansv' And so, the people
are again to be instructed by the money
lenders. stock-jobbers, pawubrokers and
thrifty merchants of New Orleans!
few months ago there was a proposition
made to hold a State Convention to organ
ize the Democracy of this State. The
movement, assuming formidable proper
tions, was met by the business men of New
Orleans with the objection that it was ILL
timed and would disturb the smooth cur
rent of commerce. The organization was
delayed, but the movement was, in the
main, a success.
How is it that upon tho eve ofevery move
made to unbind the letters of the faboring,
industrious classes of the State, the mer-
chants and capitalists of New Orleans vault
into the arena, and deprecate any stir to
alter the channel of events? Do they con-
slider that the people ofthe country have
views of private and public rights fully rs
exhalted as their own OF the Importance
and demands of commerce and trade?
arr Of fha
city," pleaded SO loudly in opposition to a
great State issue, any more than the solemn
convictions of public duty pursued by the
humblest citizen of the State?
Who are these capitalists? Are they the
men of Carondelet street who buy and sell
warrants and bonds--the lobbyists who
hang around the Legislature to buy up
vouchers-the bankers who live by specu-
lating upon the distresses of the state or by
getting up corners in stocks; or arc they
the.mininos of the Louisiana ottery, and. the
cowardly devotees of IL dollar, whose infu-
ence is bought and sold with barrel OF
sugar, or u bond in some worthless mono
poly?
We say it in candor after observation
there is not in the State an element so I'M
trustworthy as the merchants and capital
lists of the city of New Orleans. This ele-
Inent never looks beyond its money draw
ers and balance sheets. 1t is exclusive
aristocratic, selfish, mercenary. Beyond
tho Investigation of balance sheets it dis
dams to tread. win pay? Is no solvents
Are we safe for twenty per cent? These ARE
the questions which direct the course of the
average business man in New Orleans.
And look at that city to-day under tho
the beneticent guidance and control OF
these same magnates in commerce. now as
Stunning to direct grave questions of State
Tho streets arc worse than wagon roads
houses without number arc to rent, money
is gorged i'll the hands ola few, and com
mcrce itself is being strangted at the more,
of these nen. No clam, or oysterover clos
ed his shell closer than the none yed men o
New Orleans have their vaults .ocke,
and barred against LII appeals Of industry
anil labor.
DO these capitalists believe that til.
flimsy, cowardly pretexts they set up i,
behalf of commerce us against human liber
ty will pass current tor the disinterested
reasons of patriots? Commerce, indeed
Is commerce to benefit tho moneyed few
aloner Taxes are to be paid, women and
children to be clothed and fed, horses and
farms to be kept up and repaired, children
to be schooled, physicians to DO paid, and
the dead to be buried. The Capitalists
of Now Orleans would have us believe tina.
these expenses can be met by not disturb
ing the commerce of that city, and by
RETAINING from tho assertion of our rights
as a free people. We say, out upon those
capitalists who plead pardon III behalf of
the plunderers who havo stolen from the
poor, and who themselves will not aid the
poor unless with mortgage as security ut
20 per cent per annum. They have been,
ever since the war, the hane and ruin of
politics iii the State. They hung around
Wells, dinea and wiucd with Warnoth and
followed like blood hounds wherever he
led toward II job, and they are now the
mainstays and props of tho nsurping gov
eminent of Kellogg. They need not plead
their birth, their ancestry, their respect abb,
associations.;sgo to tho brokers, lists o
stock jobbers, go to Kollogg's card basket
ask the leading devils in the Ropublic:,,
party, and u strict search will show wha
influence is controlling tho men of com
merce i'll New Orleans. Their pockets ar
:illed with money made by corrupt govern
ment-the eventual gains are expected to b
greater. Hence it is, the poor farmer an,
taxpayer ofthe country, now almost do
mented, or ready to abscond FROM his ere