The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-17
RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK

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We find the following comments in
the New York Tribune of the 4th
inst. upon the defeat of the Rapid
Transit bill in the New York Legis
lature, in it's recent session at al
bany:
The defeat CT the Rapid Transit bill
was probably the worst deed of the SEES
sion, because it was most clearly caused
by corrupt influences. The people of
New York have been for half genera
zion trying to get decent system of
transporting passengers through the
streets of the metropolis, and they have
been constantly thwarted by Legisla-
turewhich neither represents them, nor
knows what they need, nor cares for
their interests. At last, after enormous
difficulties, fair beginning is made,
and when bill is introduced to cure
some min defects which the courts
have discovered in the law authorizing
the roads, the horse-car companies 60
to Albany with money in their pockets,
and the billed is killed. This is one of
the most daring wrongs upon the city
of New York which the Legislature
has ever committed. That an assem-.
blage of village lawyers, back country
farmers, and rustic politicians up the
Hudson, many of whom never saw a
town till they were sent to Albany,
should be empowered to regulate the
internal concerns of the principal city
of the Western Hemisphere, decide how
our police shall be organized and gov
erned, prescribe the material for paw
ing our streets (they passed an act the
other day forbidding us to use anything
but stone) declare that local officer
whom we have elected for a certain
term shall 60 out or stay in, just as
they think BEST, and poke their med
ding and pilfering fingers into affairs
with which neither they, nor the peo-
pie of the State at large. nor anybody
whatever except the residents and tax
payers of New York City have any con-
Germ, is hideous anomaly for which it
is high time to seek remedy.
No impartial mind will refuse to
acknowledge the truth and justice Of
this comment. Even if the accuse.
ton that the horse car companies Of
the City of New York did not go tc
Albany with money in their pockets
and thereby kill the bill, yet it is .
hideous "anomoly" that an assem-
blage of ril1age lawyers, back,count,3
farmers and rustic politicians up The
Hudson, many of whom never saw {
town until they were sent to Albany
should be empowered to regulate thu
internal concerns of the great me
tropolis of the New World, 'decid,
how their police shall be organized
and governed, prescribe the materia
with which itmust pave their streets
and poke their meddling and pilfer
ing fingers into affairs which neithe
they nor anybody except the resi-
dents and taxpayers of the grea
metropolis have any concern" A.
hideous as is this anomoly of villag
lawyers and country politicians rul
ing the the great City of New York
and as outrageous as the wrong
they have inflicted upon her may be
they sink into utter insigni6cance il
comparison with the anomoly of th
negro and carpet-bag Legislature
who have poked their meddling AM
pilfering fingers into the affairs o
Louisiana for the last eight years.
In comparison with these ignoran
negroes the rillage lawyers, back
country farmers and rustic POLITICAL,
of New York are Solomons in wis
dom and saints in honesty and vir
tue. The village lawyers and far
mers and country politicians up tn
Hudson may have itching palms ant
pilfering fingers, but the phrase o
itching palms and pilfering finger
fails to convey the faintest concep
ton of the robbery and depravit,
which has prevailed in the Louisian,
Legislature. We wonder if the PEG
pie of the North and New York Cit,
ever thought Of this hideous anomol,,
in louisiana It has well nigl
trampled out our civilization, and VI
can truly say it is high time to seel
a remedy.
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"A MAN or a mouse is an old ant
trite on dit, and right now comes t.
our relief. And we quote it for SOM
of our fence straddlers who are AGAR
on the rampage, and we hope in thi
contest they will apply it to them
selves, and side with one party or tn
other. The lines are surely sufici