The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-16
PACIFIC RAILROAD TAX.
To the Property Owners and Citizens of
the City of New Orleans.

against proposition to assess the property of tbi
parish ono half of ono par cent per annum for fou
years. to aid In the uction of the New Orean
Pacific Railway, great enterprise being rapidly
pushed forward from deep water on Rcd River to tn
| northern part Of tho State
This road, when completed, it IL indisputed, will
restore to our city very large proportion, if moi
all. Of the lucrative trade which has been diverted
into other and alien channels will stay rulnousy
downward tendency of real estate Of this parish
now almost without saleable OF rental value will
cause return Of profitable business to our NOR
chants, traders and manufacturers will furnish re-
munerative employment to hundreds Of educated
young men. who are now living in enforced idle
ness and undeserved poverty, and will double the
present rate of wages obtained by skilled and I'M
skilled workmen, by handicraftmeu Of every descrp
tion longshoremen, draymen, day laborers. and the
many other descriptions of workmsn unclsssifed who
get honest bread in the multfarvus occupations of
. largo city.
Tho question, then, 1t appears MS, which we
suffering and dependent people, called imperstively
to ask ourselves 10 just this Shall consent to
ourselves faf Of per cent per annum four
with reasonable expectation of the hatter
lag results described shall refuse do with
moral certainty of witnessing permanent loss of
best the still greater depreciation of
property more runous dminutisn of wages and en-
ployment and ultimate depopulation OF our city.
These arc the only questions that really involv-
ed In the issue presented 1t is not whether the inhab
iants not pay the pitiful one half of
cent per annum for four years. and for which
they will receive stock in the road and permanent
control of its afAirs but whether If they do they
give any satisfactory for their conduct any
even specious argument to show that ruin will fol-
low their recusancy.
We the subscribers to this appeal to our fellow
citizens not spectators in rail roads, deeply
according to prospective means in the
real estate and and mechanical enterprises
cl fv and aaha NV
serious consideration the assertion of few that
this community cannot afford to pay for towards
work not disputed recolect by any bs of the
most pressing and urgent need the tIifipg sum Of
half of one per cent Per annum for four years.
Let us suppose that one Of number who have
signed this appeal has lit tie piece of property assessed
at one thousand dollars his per annum will be five
dollars. and in four he will have paid twenty
dollars in ALL and to that he is and always
be stockholder in the New Oreons Pacific Railway,
getting if dividend of eight cent per per
share, is declared his proportion, one-ffth Of
share IT he purchases enough in addition
hundred dol'ars then he is voter well stock
holder, and will have his in the Affairs of the
pany just fully as if he owned hundred
Is there any monopoly or private corporation about
this
The present directors of the New Orleans Pacific
their MEANS without q hope of reward the promo.
tion of this great enterprise and hopes and they
will at any time, retire to make way for others the
stock holders may deem capable, continue
their dsnterested services until the completion of
line, when paid officers will doubt be elected by the
and the company, therceforth, 60 as
every other one of the kind does
This, then, is the vital undertaking hall all be
required and within very few days approve re-
at the ballot box Can there be shadow of doubt
to the result solitary fear entertained that any
iRhtsned real Estate owner. merchant trader, manu-
acturer clerk artisan laborer will hesitate voting
or small contribution for great and vital an
object
very few rich real estate owners, who do not per
,aps recognize the necessity of any contribution to
public obj acts. and the nonresident owners Of over
fifty millions worth of real estate Of this parish may
ieem their whole duty discharged to this community
when they withdraw their accruing rentals from our
impoverished people; but surely those to the
BORN who have abiding interest in New Orleans will
lot look to such examples, but will forward like
rue and determine that this New Orleans Pacific
Railway shall be built by themselves, by their contri
buttons alone, and owned exclusively by them and in
uch way, that not dollar of bonded other debt
hall attach to it the day of its completion, when
hey shall enter its permanent poss. sson and may
Se not hope glorious future.
Cd Conery Il Co, Fred'k Wing,
;hatie Hamilton y Powell, Kirkpatrick and Keith
Emory Clapp, Payne
ohm j Gidiere, Ocean, Zerega & Co,
Ar Milte nberger, Duncan L Kenner.
q Ober, Bel & Menge,
ohm Chate, John HendeI son,
& q Cromwell ia Girdner,
Biscoe, Henry Denegre,
leopold Christ Behan, Thorn & Co.
ohm u Britton, Bloom Il Co.
'obt Moore, John Adams,
YIN d Hardeman, Edward j Gay, Jr
L Wamsey 4 Co, j Lewis,
Ienry Renshaw, Win Flash,
L Harris 4 Co, M Zeigler,
ohm HRrdie y Co, A Bennett,
ouls Bush, Wackerbarth Joseph,
W smith, VIM Florence, by agent z F.
ohm N Shannon, james McGrath,
S Story per O H, VIC Coyle,
Hopkins, SinIott,
A Lum, Mortimer Carr
ami n Kennedy, j X Bell,
ucion DeBuys, John McNuty
hos DuEan, JP Wagner,
I'm Black, JEAustin,
L Macmurdo he Warmotb,
LabOuisse, John Phelps.
II Behn, Charles Prayer