The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-11

ion, may be due them"
Is this the teaching OF Dem ocracy Is doc-
lren2 God forbid
You believe that many Of the bonds are rotten
snd faa Why BECAUSE the FEDERAL courts
organized in the interests Of the bQndholder.
And how flagrantly wrong you arel why. right
Tered, Ia Federal courts : one as squarely
or the people as it is possible to i'm
sdes ses bdssb e 2hsr coud saHarey ONE as ss
fudge Billings branded saooo,ooo Of bonds as |
stricken Sth nqit{ and yet Judge ,vba bBngs
whose head this peop
place more of blame for all that we have been |
cursed with. But he is a lawyer and Judge |
law. In the other case Judge Woods has said |
all he could for the, people. with the feeble,
case Of the people put before him
case must go clear through to the supreme
Court of the United States; grant that you have
well fS fears Ss st hs oat
is that good reason for not carrying our case
tbere2 Shall we, the people who know that we
do not OF he debt put IT nReh bs
one composed Of Oily Council and the bond.
holders Shall We shut our eyes to the he fact &C.
vorably s1 yofa to US Shall we ignore the TACT that
master in chanoery. an able lawyer, appointed
by Federal court to. strictly end impartially
the consol ldated debt is null snd void Shall
We as citizens q the srshd United o states
e@te On the o Hs Rishest st law tribunal Of the
lard and substitute as arbitrato9rs Of our
financial destinies the men who hold the bonds.
along with seven men who sought the offices
they hold. and who have wilfully funded nearly
two millions of bonds, after they. were officially
condemned by the Federal court in which we
No no, no, srl This is false doctrine that
will not do for Democrats to preach. A country
try Try that must awake to the fact, and we must
take our cases there and prove 1t. II they are
corrupt they can't ay in their seats and lib
erty survive. II they are not corrupt, II is In,
dispensabe that we prove 1t and drive the fatal
doubt from the minds Of our people :,
But let US, suppose that we go to the courts
against @ stu Us. are are We any worse Off The holders
Of the outside bonds said they were all good, and
essma yet hsy WHY sb % beass ss sg1 saa sGad
enough to see that taxation of this people had
passed beyond their ability to pay-in plain
English, they had repeated the proof OF the in IN
And so will 1t be If the ultimate decision OF the
Federal. courts be against us Tor the entire
The matter would resolve itself into what we
All this simply in the way of argument for
that the Federal courts have thus far been with
us. In Judge. Billing court alone one batch OF
a 900 900 of bonds have been pronounced
You dissent from what you call my fierce
attack on the city administration. and you say
you believe they are endeavoring to manage
believe the question is one too full OF difficult
ties and touches too many interests to airant
an attack on the motives and m policy, Of tho, those 2
not having conte.ted the quest ionable bonds
they have funded into premiums"
My position. sir, is that this great question Is
hat ohpap arth hltn hat aft
every market basket of every taxpayer who
works for the support and education Of. bis
their protectors with competency. ,Venai and
prof gate Councils have sQuandered the sub
stance OF this people and fixed b irden on
better than the slaves of those who hold mort
Industry. This wrong has not been done
men. and the sufferers have. ever cried out
against it as 1t was being done. Law was
openly violated the sufferers pointed. to the
illegality; the men who specu' ated in the ile-
gal paper were as competent to see the wrong
as were the sufferers. and yet they strength
ened the hands OF the official u wrong WI -doers T by
ing tn. term of this shocking saturnalia of vii
lainy the people have paid back in taxation
at last a day of reckoning has come.
Who M elected the exislding isl CITY Council to to
elected? On that Of the reformation of wrong
and the re- establishment of right. What ran
| City Hall had he before announced to the peo-
! Pile that he wou vote to fund into premium
bonds $1,sooooo. of bonds lpronouncsed. e. by
| a competent court stricken with nulity?' Not
| one Of them. What man Of them would have
been elected to office had he told beforehand
| that in order to force con, ,olidated bondholders
| into the premium scheme, he would go into
| open. court and attempt to, dishonor g debt
which stands q trebly armed and sacred CON
ira between the holders ef the bonds 4 and the
Of them would have been put in office had he
announced to the people that wh1n he was pub
| lcly shown that he had wrongly reported II the
pointed to his error2 Not one
This is no time, sir. to look on great public
wrongs with stealing tears OF sympathy for
to fight and right them. This Is no time Z,
handle pens flowing with honey or even with
the milk OF human, kin dness.' This Is NO
A man can. step by step force me into lperditio n
itself and all through the very best OF motives
but that does not make the less hot or my tor
lures more endurable. Acts. acts. sir. are the
measure and alone the measure. bywhich these
servants are to be judged. Our Council went
O. office pledged to to they hn have
have not even obeyed the mandates OF their
| them to fund only ralid bonds.
Yet, in the face of the official report of com
| pc ent master in chancery that all subsequent
to the consolidated bonds are invalid. as well
as the decision of a competent court that
81 900, 900 specially tested before 1t were stricken
| with nullity," they have funded indiscriminate-
ly. II this is reform. If this Is carrying out the
behests Of ruined people then God help US
for our Council never will.
No. sir; / say now. and without fear Of sue.
cessiul contradiction. that the city administra.
ti"n has been worse than fai ure. Is 1t trea.
son to any party to say so2 Then am a traitor
and they worthy to be worshiped. We're they
Radicals. such as we have been accustomed tc
seeing in office |, tor one. would have expected
one OF the ferces struggles for relief from op
preston that has ever taken place, and they
have dragged the banner OF that struggle in the
10 be recreant to the memory of the struggle.
BRUTUS.
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