The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-23

| @eAAAosSo W tno opinions expressed IN bnt
petition for an injunction to restrain the city
administration from ordering an election to be
held to ascertain whether or not the people Of
this city are willing to tax themselves for the
| construction, in part, of the New Orleans
| Pacific, which few deny to be vital to our com.
meroial salvation and none worthy of par
| ticle OF consideration regards as other than of
| hrst"rate Importance. The ipjunctionists rep.
| resent very large amount of foreign capital,
| doubtless, and naturally their principals have
neither motive of pride nor public spirit to in
splre their patriotism while of the dome site
ones, it is safe to affirm that altho u Oh they ma
own great deal of property, real aud persona a.,
| they are no friends to any enterprise which
does not promise direct and immediate pro.
htsble return on the investment.
The undersigned, in this connection, was
curious enough to inquire to what extent tn Q
inJunctionists had invested in the stock of the
new orleans Pacific Railway, and was not sur
prlsed to find that, although they ostentatious-
ly aggregated for themselves millions of tax
able property, their entire interest in the m ag-
nihcent' home undertaking amounted to lust
seven shares!
Is it to be wondered at, then, that these gen
tlemen have sued out an INJUNCTION to restrain
the people of this great, intelligent and nflll-
entail, if fl ;cted and hnmiliated community
from voting whether they will not tax them
selves for the beggarly sum of two per cent of
their property, to avert the ruin which all see
10 be impending over their honest
Is it true, as the auditors of the ipiunctiop-
lists would have their gullible auditories be-
lieve, that the merchants, the shopkeepers the
al man tha oil he
manufacturers, the laborers of this suffering
city, are communists and brigands because they
dare to demand the right of American citizens
toimpose a tax to save their properties from
ruin, their families from destitution and the
thousand temptations which infallibIy follow
poverty aud want.
If such doctrine can prevail, why these
who are wallowing in their mil
lions, as they represent. will stigmatize as
communists aud brigands the imposers of taxes
for your public schools, your hospitals, your
various generous and benevolent institutions,
which constitute the refugees of suffering, mis-.
fortune, abandonment and moral despair.
The subscriber is one of the multitude who
will not approve the action of the Injunction
lists, for he cannot shut his eyes to the con-
tinued steady deterioration of this city its |
dauy increasing number of houses for rent, |
from the purlieus of the st. Charles Hotel, of
which prosperous company Mr. John G. Gaines
8 President, to the EXTREMIST and humblest !
nburb of this once prosperous and happy |
parish. Neither he shut his ears to the
lever ending complaints of every class of
business men, and workmen, and professional
men that there is remunerative work or
business 10 be done, and that unless a new and
ecprocal trade with the interior can be
reated, this deplorable state of things will
ontinue until finally the population must
finnish, according to the infallible rule, to q
lumber proportional to the means of existence
In conclusion, the subscriber would implore
ne thousands who belong here, whose families
7ere born, reside, and will probably die here,
8 his own in all likelihood will, to reflect we'll
bout this New Orleans Pacific Railroad before
hey refuse it support, and particularly to bear
a mind that the only question is whether they
hall save their city or leave it to persons like
ne ipjunctionists to deal with.
SMALL PROPERTY OWNER AND
SUBSCRIBER TO TIE N. o. P. R.