The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-03-12
THE TIMES AND THE SENATE.

will render all these things of the past.
THE TIMES AND THE SENATE.
.Scorn'd. to be scorn'd by ono that scorn.
Ia that matter 80 make mo fret2
That u calamity hard to bB borne2"
Such might very properly and appropri-
ately have been the exclamation OF each OF
the twenty-one State Senators who we're
held up to public soorn yesterday morning
IN the editorial columns Of the New Orleans
J1anes.
The whirligig Of Time has brought about
no more extraordinary spectacle than that OF
the Times 40 great moral censor, and as
one reads the fulminatlong Of this latter-day
organ Of honesty and reform he IL wont to
rub his eyes and pinch himself to be sure
that It Il not oil dream, or. ut the very feutst
u waking delusion. All, but we have strayed
upon unhappy days Days In which hypocrisy
clonks itself In cunning guise and masquer-
AIDES as virtue, days In which vice suns itself
IN purple and finc linen and rends pious
homilies to honesty Itself; days In which
sleek disciples Ok the Master are detected In
starving unto death the little children COM
mitted to their care In the sacred name Of
Charityl Days In which tho New Orleans
Times holds up It's unclenn hands In affecta-
tion OF holy horror Mt Senators, any one
Of whom would con slder praise from such
o source as the seve s.i censure. The Sena-
tors whose names have been printed by the
Times In monumental form will readily re-
member the time when the sheet which now
denounces them was the eulogist OF the worst
of the Radical plunderers Of this State and
will solace themselves with the reflection that
appreciation Of their course by the Times
would Justly excite popular apprehension as
to tho wisdom and purity Of their motives. II
ID good rule In statecraft. as In war, to as-
certain what your enemy most ardently de-
sires YOU to do, and then to pursue precisely
tho opposite course.
Why, forsooth. does the 1Imes object to tho
passage Of the Senate bill In reference to ju-
dicial printing! No one at all familiar with
the Antecedents or present status Of that pa
per will accuse 1t Of any special love for the
people, still less with disposition TO assist
them at its own expense, and hence ell Its
palaver about the judicial printing being
given to the official journal does not deceive
even the general public. much lees impose
upon the Senators and Representatives Of the
General Assembly. It II perfectly understood
by everybody that tho opposition Of the 7imcs
springs from the fear that II will be cut out
Of those judicial advertisements which It has
heretofore managed to procure from the auc-
tioneers By liberal arrangement Of some
forty or fifty per cent discount. This was
and is m exceedingly "fAt take for the
Times and the auctioneers. but where do
the dear people come In? How are the
people benefited by this divide between
the Times and the auctioneers? They
are made to pay to the last cent full rates,
while the auctioneer blandIy pockets one-half
and the Times the other. It is this little
game Of division and silence In which the
owners Of property advertised are deirauded.
that the virtuous Times desires to SEQ main-
tained. Il is the anguish induced by the
vision Of departing dollars, wrunR from the
pockets Of the cheated and oppressed judicial
advertisers, that makes the Times howl and
grow purple In the face with anger, and not,
oh gentle and conflding people. any love or
compassion for you.
The we'll known integrity and high charac-
ter OF the Senators who voted for this judicial
printing bill should have saved them from
this Infamous attempt to sti9matize them
as men who have committed some great
crime But this starved jackal Of the press,
furious at the prospective loss OF the feast 1t
had anticipated, savagely attacks gentlemen
who might justly regard contact with the
Times az ination-gentlemen whose
characters, in this community, have never
been assailed even by the foul-tongue Of
slander, and whose records, unlike that OF
their calumniator, are free from spot or stain.
The assumption on the part Of the Times
that the action Of the Senate In this matter
was In the interest OF the DEMOCRAT, is q
gratultous insult to that honorable body and
Is as absurd In theory as false In fact. We
suggest to the 1imes that. as Its nimsy at
tempt to masquerade as Democratic jour-
nal has long since brought upon 1t the con-
tempt Of every man In the State who abhors
hypocrite, 1t is about time it pulled down
the honored flag Of the Democracy and hoist
ed the black flag Of Radicalism, under which
It 80 fully earned in recent years the infamy
which no amount OF political tergivisation
can ever wash away or conceal.
COTTON MILLS IN THE SOUTH.
Abiding to the prosperity Of the various
small cotton factories that have been started
In South Carolina within two or three years,
the New York Herald says that most North
ern people will rejoice with the South that the
experiment OF working up cotton at home, In
stead Of sending all OF It from one to three
thousand miles away. has been successfully
tried, and they will hope that our manufac-
turing will not be restricted to single va