The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-12

postulation. Would that 1t we're otherwise.
Would that the papers were Justified In dis
missing tho subject from their columns for
everl But ii the press be guilty Of recurring
with tiresome persisteney to this unpleasant
topic we have ut least the excuse that the
topic Is as constantly being suggested to us.
The Item uses no stronger Or more serious
language than the sitnetion warrants. Nay,
II all The newspapers were daily to declatRs
against the practice OF carrying concealed
weapons they would. through their
combined efforts, keep paee with the
prevalence OF the practice and the
frequency of It's manifestation. Who
can read the record of the police courts, OF
the columns OF telegraphie news. without
being siekened by the array OF concealed
weapons and shocked by the number Of in
| stances Ia which those weapons are dragged
from their hiding on every pretextl 1t Is
the shame OF our generation that such things
should be- yet SO they are. and being 80
| they must be eombated by all the best and
| most patriotic forces of the country.
We need hardly go over the points of the
| arratgnment against this henous and barba-
| rous custom. Everybody knows the revolt
Ing story only too we'll. Everybody knows
that the almost inevitable sequence OF high
words Is the drawing of Knife or revolver and
the immediate slaughter or mutilatlon oil
somebody. 1t by no means follows that the
harm resulting from these bloody hrawls Is
confined to the authors and actors thereof,
Bad as even that would be, the fact Is even
worse Innocent bystanders peaceful
ftf In, fbait. In .xrF,,
tlons or passing to and fro In the
vicinity, women, children, all or any OF
these are equally In danger and have, time
and time again. rs Is notorious, suffered
grtevous injury and not seldom
met their death from the flying bullets. We
shrink from enumerating the different occur
rences of this sort which have disgraced the
present year-instanees of hot and brutal
outbreaks by armed rowdies and in places of
public resort Still more do we shirk from
recalling the ealamities that have resulted
and the meagre and contemplate manner In
which the law has been INDICATED. These
retrospects can do no good, They only shock
and dishearten patriotic citizens.
Some days since the DEMOCRAT called the
attention of the public to the fact that the
North and East was being Hooded with
cheaply manufactured weapons, and that
men. women and children of Northern and
Eastern communities were suffering from an
epidemic of bloody episodes Of recklessness
and lawessness, caused by the carrying and
using of concealed weapons.
The press Of the North are agitating this
subject in behalf OF their communities, and 1t
is high time for the press Of New Orleans to
see II We cannot create q public sentiment and
install public practice which will mitigate.
il 1t does not OF once uproot, whatever of this
frightfu institution may exist In our city,
Surely this Is q subject which 1t behooves
the papers to discuss and the authorities to
ponder. What deeper interest could we have
than the suppression Of practice which is
sorrow and a shame to all who behold 1t, and
n whitening reprpach tn our civilization