The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-24
SOME ISLANDERS.

small sheet in this city that has longed
for O notice from the DEMOCRAT and whose
editor yearned for the print Of our boot on the
seat Of his pants to frame as o. certificate of
gentility attained Its ambition as well as that
of it's editor, by quoting @ single disconnected
paragraph in an article published in the DEM
oCRAT, entitled New Orleans as Summer
City" In doing this the diminuttve sheet al
Iuded to made malicious misrepresentation
that, in morals, was no better than down.
right, slanderous lying, directly compre-
hended in the Biblical prohibition, Thou shalt
not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
What this sheet said of us was unworthy OF
notice, and by correcting its misrepresenta-
tions we should merely have been giving
publicity otis Islander, 50 we simply gratified
its longing without abiding to the misrepre-
sentation which provoked our notice. Not to
have gratified this modest aspiration would
have been mean and brutal, and we could not
consent to rest under such an imputaton.
But q correspondent of @ morning Contem-
porary quotes the same paragraph from our
article, as published in the st. Louis Repub-
Hcan, with some editorial remarks by that
paper, and then proceeds to lecture us for
Misrepresentation of New Orleans. The fol-
lowing are the remarks of the Republican and
the paragraph clipped from the DEMOCRAT:
Well, there is one city on the continent con-
fessedly not pleasant summer resort. Says
the New Orleans DEMOCRAT:
"The man or woman who has the leisure
and money enough to pay his fare, by rail or
river who remains in New Orleans during
the sumrar months is simply q person Of
very bad taste and but slight appreciation OF
comfort"
AS we have never yet heard Of a city, in the
Old World or the New, in ancient or modern
times. that set itself up as a summer resort,
and as it is generally believed that summer
resorts are places whittier the denizens Of
cities go for the relief and recreation they
cannot find in cities anywhere, we see nothing
in the paragraph above quoted that might
not be said of any city In the world, including
New Orleans, without the slightest dispar
agement. But great deal has been made of
it, and we are willing to cOncede, for the pur-
poses of the occasion, that the sentence was
most unhappy traduGtion of New Orleans,
standing isolated as it does from the rest OF the
article. Admitting this, we must be allowed
to show that the man, or the newspaper, that
so placed it, bore false witness against his
neighbor," which is the most orthodox of all
lying. Any one who read the article Of the
DEMOCRAT must have seen that nothing but
praise and laudation Of the city itself was
uttered in that article. It contained no com
plant, save of the insufficient means of trans
portation to the sauntering places and cool
retreats in and about the city, and the CharaC-
ter of accomm Odations to be found at those
places. Of the city itself that article had none
but words OF praise as place OF summer res
idence. Here is what was said:
The city itself-the houses, the streets, and
the places Of businesS-iS, for the man who
must work and during the hours of labor, ex-
ceptiOnally and uniformly pleasant In this
respect New Orleans stands unrivaled among
American cities Our climate is most equable,
the temperature, from days end to day end,
the whole summer varying less than
in almost any other locality on the continent
1t Is seldom indeed that we experience here
that sweltering MONDAY heat which makes
the Northern cities so uncomfortable during
the summer solstiCe. Herein lies the chief at
traction of our climate. We know nothing of
that depicting and Sickening heat of the
Northern monday, and such thing as sun
stroke is almost unknown, even among those
who are most exposed to the sun. Our nights
are measurably cool, while the breeze scarce
ly has cessation from nightfall till morning.
This was what the DEMOCRAT said of New
Orleans as place Of summer residence "for
those whose avocations are not suspended
with the busy season" What we COM
planned of was that, with these advan-
tages, and with a large number of places
In and around the city that could be
made attractive at but little cost, where tired
men and women could resort for breath of
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and delicate children could find some relaxa-
tion from the summer Imprisonment of brick
walls and backwards" the facilities for reach
ing these places were most unsatisfactory,
and the accommodations they afforded when
reached were too costly for the times. This
Is all we said, and this we are prepared to re-
terate and stand by. Against misrepresenta-
ton and SANDER we can no more protect our
selves than other people. We have been mis-
and slandered, and that Is all of it.