The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-13

| the Mayor, VINO had sat all DAY III front Oh
the Hall, twirled for the last time the strings
of his white shoes, picked up his chair
and went to supper. firmly convinced
that he is 'biger man than old Grant;
the military retired to their quarters, and
the town drew long breath of relief, and,
we hope, began to be ashamed of itself.
This morning the greater part OF the popu-
lation awoke to the reflection that the folly
of the past week has emptied the hotels,
paralyzed business. interrupted industry,
deprived many households of part of the
weeks wages, made the whole city appre-
Gladly poorer. And all this for an imported
feud, which has not the least relation in the
world to the lives or the rights the joys or
the sorrows Of any man on either side who
got up in this great fuss.
When they read the papers the Montreal
people will discover, and blush, We hope. at
the reading, that in Philadelphia the
'Orangemen marched in procession unmo-
Tested; that in New York they trooped down
| to the pier and went on picnic with no one
to disturb them; that even in Ottawa they
paraded five or six hundred strong, and no
Ribbonman offered to interrupt their march
Only in Montreal did a bowling and threat
eqing mob fill the streets.
1t must be said that the Orangenen bore
off the laurels in the struggle. They met
in their hall and determined not to attempt
procession. In this they were not only
right. but wise. A freeman has many
rights which it may not be always expedient
| to exercise; and in this case sensible and
just regard for the community in which they
live required that they should not need
lessly expose that community to danger
We hope another year they will think of
this beforehand, and will spare their city
the excitement into which their proposed
procession this year plunged it and the loss
Of money and character they helped to in
fict on it,
But nothing justifes their opponents. It
may have been, and indeed was, foolish
for the Orangemen to propose parade,
which they knew beforehand would be con-
strued into an insult and defiance by
| the ignorant and debased among their
! oppon ents but that does not justify
the misconduct of the Ribbonmen
nor the support it received from some per-
sons in authority who ought to have known
better. The course of the Mayor should
bring down upon him the indignation of
oil the respectable people of his city. He
encouraged the mob beforehand he really
| put himself at the head of it and when
yesterday morning he forbade the procession
/ t1,a taxkx hot ha cof
once obliged to admit the fimsiness of this
excuse by arresting several OF the Orange
leaders with the expressed purpose of
making a case, to try whether they had or
had not right to parade. That is
to say he confessed that his pro-
hibition had no law to back it. If
he had been worthy Of his place as con-
servator of the laws and peace he would
have placed himself ut the head Of the pro-
cession and seen to it that the mob did not
disturb it, or, If they did, that exemplary
punishment should quickly follow. That
was his dnty, and to that he
was conspicuously false. We can as-
sure him that on this side of the
line he would not soon recover from the
disgrace his course has earned him and the
injury he has done to the city he rules.
There have been times in New York whom
procession or n public assembly became the
occasion of threats against the city's peace.
Such was the Communistic meeting called
and held last summer, during the height
| of the railroad riot excitement. But
fortunately for the credit of New York the
authorities have not attempted to interfere
with the right of citizens peaceably to as
semble together they have simply taken
due precautions to prevent, and if neces-
sary to promptly put down, any attempt at
disturbance and riot
IL is II grave blunder in the authorities of
q city to pander to the mob. The lawless
and the ignorant and excitable elements of
a community can be admonished to pa
thence and self-restraint only by the firm
attitude Of the constituted authorities. In
Montreal the Catholic clergy did their
duty by instructing and commanding
their people to keep the peace and by
warning them of the consequences of riot
GUS acts But when the Mayor joined the
mob he made the influence CT respectable
people of no avail with the excited popu-
lace. His course was demoralizing to the
last degree and will make it more difficult
to maintain peace and order hereafter.
And now what is the use of all this fuss
and excitement on both sides? Why
should the Irish bring over to this CONT
mont the wretched and out-of- late feuds
which have too long divided them in their
own country What do they gian by these
Orange and Ribbon demon situations and
quarrels, which have no place or mean
ing, even in the land where they
originated, and certainly not here in the
United States or in Canada? Here in
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