The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-14

companies. After he got in. he said so again
| and agnin but be has never gone"
| Since these mon went into power the Western
| Union Telegraph Company has committed the
grenest outrage on property holders here, and
| the Council has been mum.
| One day met the Mayor on Carondelet street
and pointed him to tho fact that this company
we're then beginning TO eroct on this fine street
rough cedar logs, twelve to fourteen inches in
frankly admitted that 1t was great wrong. and
| that it would impair the value of property. but
he has never raised his official fnger in resist
anGe
| Had pointed him to some poor vagrant lying
drunk by the wayside. no doubt he would have
cerntion; but he had not tho courage or the will
| to oppose great CORPORATION In its outrageous
injury Of the property OF large number OF prl-
Last year the attention Of tho Mayor and
Gounel m IVA Was so calea by c9mmttse e Of business
Of this city was practcing gross extortion on
| the persons Interested In the sugar business.
tn Ths led to full public szp2se q this 50,
had aful conversation with him on the subject.
He there and then admitted to me that the com-
had no legal right to tho land which had been
a,enated in its favor byn previous council, that
official examination to have been guilty of ex-
tortion as, charged-.hereby forfeitlng its
| yet hat Mayor has mover been hoard In remon-
| STRANGE against the foul official condoning of
the great wrongs Of this company by tho
| Council.
And so might go on the end of the chapter
| The poor devil who violates city ordinance in
the simplest manner will meet their fullest con-
| domination. One man will be denied the priyi-
ege OF building q frame house on Camp. be-
| tween st. Joseph and Deord. yet Mr.. Burke
could build Just such house or tho same lot
provided he only retained enough OF tho old
house. as Secretary Robson did of tho old ship,
to call it repartng-it being Il few sheds in the
one case and 81 plank in the other. These comDa-
MES can DO any wrong and go free. but II Il poor
bis watch, your administrator VIII dock his
pay without scruple. thus faithfully illustrate
ing the soriptnral teaching;
and he shall have abundance; bnt from him
that hath not, shall be taken away even that
which he hath
If there were no other charge OF utter disre-
gard of tho general interest Of the, people to
ought to be sufficient to condemn them In the
eyes Of every Intelligent voter. Here was 9
eo1essed nt themssves 80 unnbe to conduct The
Waterworks, although they had land still have.
by the by,) an Administrhtor and general or
advertise to the world that tho Waterworks
wore for sale TO the highest bidder for cash or
Its equivalent? No: they have negotiatoda i with
ing Indebtedness" Of the city
They did not even sell for cash and then buy
| floating" or other indebtedness Mt market
price, The transaction, as q matter of bust
ness, Is about On par with funding bonds into
premiums at fifty cents in the dollar, when the
premiums are worth only thirty cents as an
article of street-corner speculation. Viewed in
amy other light 1t is about as uninviting pic
ture as / Imagine tho other side OF the moon
| to be.
Shall | 60, on. fellow-voters2 No. # I have
not 9alned 9l you that you are IN the hands OF
stabbed in the house Of your friends, then 1t Is
Of no use to say more.
| We are Democrats, yes; but we have fnthless
Dem0crats amongst u.s. and what matters it
whether We are buddy trented by friend or foe?
We also have good Democrats amongst US, and
II you, don't put such in office We will continue
to be the hewers OF wood and the haulers OF
water for that dark, something called che
Socialist, Communist all the bad names. L I
talk thus. My answer is ask simply justice
for all men zen an y :. for paying every dollar m we
am utterly and irreVocably opposed to paying
what We do not owe
Premiu Bond scheme whereby iegilmqte and
legitimate claims against tho city were thrown
into the same basket. thus swinding the lust
was the way in which the villain Kellogg and
his Legislature acted in the matter Of the State
debt. and we should not initiate his iniduitty I
am for carrying our whole so-called indebted
ness before the courts, and there lot the just be
sifted1 from the unjust % No holder Of bond
sign. 1fthe courts decide that We owe $40 900.
then let US m pay If We can II we cannot thon
have to do With other lebtors- take what tive we
can pay, Blood can't be squeezed out Of
turnip.
am in favor of securing to every body eorpoo--
rate all that 1t is legally entitled to- That Is all
any city council or any State government can
ME or 4nd Y4 &c do
more to any corporate body or to overlooking
their attempts to taxi, more. or to in any way
opposed to every illegal monopoly and to every
Illegal privilege granted to any monopoly. ;,
Finally an in fav2r Of the payment 2at Of al
Dle), and paying for keeping the city In gentoel
condition before all other payments whatso-
eyer: believe this to be the just and sensible,
plan, and believe our so-called public credit
will be better whom We do it-though, to tell yon
the truth | am sure we you'd have been as &
enough public credit" to enable US to negotiate
q bond or buy 2 barrel offionr Without the cash
entertain such views as these and who viii un-
ceasingly, agitate for thsir establishment as our
dxed policy and we Tll begin g to sec our way
bents in. or put In anoth set like them and
We work In vain. No people can stand such tax
alton and such utter neglect of general justice
Another thing. You want city attorneys who
90 not belong to the Legislature For, myself
legal right to hold the two positions at the same
; time. but. at any rate, pledge your Mayor and
Council TO the course ndea5ed H Ned on this Import d
TO command the respect and attention Of the
Legisatu1e When through the medium IL a. Of their
! ing for Just and enlightened r. formatory laws,
let them stand with clean hands, and with Off,
local government for the whole people.
/ earnestly believe, fellow voters. that the past
} official conduct OF the local representative Of
the Democratic party has not only redounded
to the injury OF the people at large, but that 1t
| has tended to sap the foundations Of the party
} itself, and we therefore have double motive
} for q mplete change Of tactics. For one, am
Q Democrat. and expect to die In the faith; but
was a. man before was 9 Democrat, and T.
| never will yield my manhood to party behests.
Let the convention put u . men pledged openly
ahd pnih1iciy to REFORMS o. 5nch az indgated m Eng &
: they prove false: let these men be such as are
known to US as reliable, and who are not trad
ing for the nominations. and We can afford to
vote for them. TO repeat the farce Of voting 70 .
, men dictated by the money power is doubl L
suicidal. u. WARREN BRICKELL. y
L. WI. G. A.