The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-20
HOW TO SUSTAIN THE STATE CREDIT
AND OUR CHARITABLE IN
STITUTIONS.

Slhto h'ih city neht. New orleans ana n larg
portion Of tho Southwest have lust been d,
vnstatod nv one of the most fearful epidemic
which has visited the earth in modern times
The honda oftho State and eft Y have been mad
the plaything Of stock gamblers until the cred
IT Of both has become subject of conteinp
ana rllicule IN financial circles everywhere
| The police OF the city and the teachers in on
public schools, allowed by our laws but ins,II
ficient salaries. are paid in deprecated cit
scrip. and. though the most Iabnrlous of Tn
public servants, they are II not on the verg
Of actual starvation, In actual want Of the or
binary comforts Of life. Our charitable jnsti
buttons are lily sustained by private Chart,
obtained by the energy Of the noble mon an,
women who devote their lives to tho cause O
| suffering humanity.
Dark IA Is this roughly drawn picture It Il
but q feeble outline Of tho reality Indeed
tho situation of this State and city, presum
ably governed by civilized laws and en-
lightened men, ID simply diagracoful, and tn.
eyes of the whole country are turned upon us
with something Of mingled contempt, III
| dignation and comm iseration
| Our people are not directly responsible,
| i'' hhi0 'i'G itihi 'i'plDFHIe tDUUlLlbf
Of affairs Allen adventurous conauerors and
robbers organized tho present State and NUM-
eipal governments nj the point of Fedora
bayonets Legislatures and city councils
composed Of tho representatives Of the con
aucrors, in violation Of law, pundered the
taxpayers, the public treasures and the pub
lie properties and created the pondoroua and
crushing mass of illegal debta. Further, by
| corrupt Legislation they created rings and
monopoles with no real capital save The pro
| eious franchises Of the State and the
legalHed right to tax, plumber and Cypress
tho people
These monopoliea. with tho mass oi
debt and the oppressive governments
city and State, created by tho consttrl-
ton OF 1868 and subsequent legislation
were transmitted to us by the Radical
adventurous through tho election Of 1876 We
possess them all now all in their hldeous
symmetry. In their vicious maturity just as
Warmoth and Kellogg and their facile Logis-
lalures organized them and handed them over
to us when the Packard usurpaton disap-
pcared and the Nichols government became
an established fact. We have the State debt and
holders, tho oxorbitant salaries and tho bu-
reaucratic municipal system And more and
worse than MI, We have tho gigantic monop-
olcs, now grown SO rich and powerful that
they arso mghter than the State. and
prepared, "a they have done before, to control
tho Legislation Of Louisiana and subordinate
the redemption Of the people to their own
schemes Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Little or nothing has been done to reform
tho evils which Cypress tho city and State.
The State credit Il to-day lttle If any better
than it. was whom Kellogg occupied tho guber-
material chair Tho police and teachers are
no better If they are NOT worse paid, and
though tho ableat physicians Of Now Orleans
and tho greatest scientists Of tho country
havo admonshod Ms that our best protection
against yellow fever Is thorough system Of
sanitary reform. we stand by. watching the
Lottery Company rake In its millions through
the whirling of its wheel, paralyzod, as it were.
and utterly unable to find tho few hundred
thousand dollars necessary to save i'm the
future thousands Of lives and millions of
property.
THERE'S not IN evil which opprcssos and par
alyzcs this city and State which the New Or
leans DEMOCRAT has not attacked and tho
extinction Of which IL has not demanded. We
have called for constitutional convention
that this may DO reduced to cheap
government such as an Impoverished and
dobt-riddon people can sustain, we have
stood by tho net of 1852 a. n protection
to the city against d mass Of fraudulent
bonds. we have advocated poll tax quaiii.
cation for tho purpose of forming n public
school fund. we have advocated Il now city
charter organizing the city government on n
loss expensive basis. And. finally, we have
perslstcntly and at immense pecuniary sacri-
tlce TO ourselves, urged the repeal of the char
ters of all the monopolies. and especially of
that Of the Louisiana state Lottery.
The people have sustained us SO far as it
has been possible for them IT, give an express
sion Of opinion, upon all these propositions
Tho pronounComent for u constitutional CON
vention. which means relief from the great
mass of our burthens has been so emphatic
doubt that the coming session of the LegisIa-
turo will be very brief one winding up with
a call for the convention
We find however that the Louisiana Lot
terry has been busy in the city ana throughout
tho State; that its emissarics have been
everywhere, ana that its money has been *
pended where 1t will do most good" with
lavish profuson Already its hirclings are
on the street aud in the country pleading its
cause on the ground hat pays u tar Of $40
900 annually 10 the Charity Hospital and is
therefore great chm7tnblc institution.
This speclous allegation serves to gull a
vast number Of unthnking people. and when
its attorneys rise up and talk about the
vested right of corporations, the average
man Is dumb-foundcd and believes that the
lottery swindle has made out its case. In
deed, the charity argument Is swallowed by
many good men, and the representatives of
many churches and benevolent institutions
accept 1t, and turn their pious faces against
the war on that corrupting and defaming in
stitution as an attack upon blessed charity.
Now we are opposed to the Lottery in every
sense OF the word W. believe that n IL d IA