The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-22
JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

| We have already said that we do not favor
the plan " forcing the Insertion Of judicial
sales advertisements In any paper Our de-
sire ID to have this matter left where 1t
already ia with the parties In interest As
| the e,sto ON is AT present. the defendant In the
cult is presumed to have the right of selecting
The paper in which the sale of hla property
shall he advertised and this Is the custom we
wish and hope to see perpetuated. Our
teaeon FOR this ia An honest aversion to any
regulation which savnre of compuleion In the
matter OF printing patronage II ls we'll aud
nropeI-nar. II ia necessary that the States
business should be given out Oh contract and
70 formally constituted officer but In the
| matter Of such advertising az results from
| litigation we think II a theoretical proprinty
| that the person whose property s to be sold
should have the privilege of choosing the
medium through which the nate ls to be con
enmmated.
In saying this. however. we do not desire
TO lie understood "a conceiing anything TO the
mawklah eentimentallsm under which the
7Ymee and Iscppune veil their animaa. Those
papers raise plous moan. and pump their
ever ready tears over the wrongs Of the dear
beloved people. an affected love for whom is
their normal masquerade. They pretend that
they dlsplae the Idea of forcing judicial aiver
tiaaments III the official journal simply be
cause II is a douhle-dytd wrong to the citizen
They know that az q matter of fact the niti.
zen In interest has about as mucl, to do with
It az the Rajah Of Ramchowler that the
aucfloneera make the selection of the paper
In which the advertisements shall he pub
ttshed and that the auetioneers do this AZ
eetdingly "a they s.lcceed In getting the
largest discount on regular rates that the
litgant has to pay these regular rates aud
that the auetlopeer makes the discount
himself. They know in their hearts |
that the litigant'a only interest In
the matter ls to have his property |
advertised IN such manner as will secure
the largest publicity for the sale and effect
the most animated competition, and they
know that this end will be better secured by |
having all the advertisements In fixed jour
nal. which shall he known as the publisher of |
such announcements, Nevertheless they
persiat In the hypocritiral howl that the citl-
zena interests are being sacrificed for the
emolument ot party organ. when they fully
understand all the time that the auotIonaers
Interest is the prize really al stake. and that
the citizen is being greedlly cut up among
them. We cay this with full knowledge of
lta truth. and we challenge the Pirapuus or
7imea to show that they have ever
collected from the auctlonaer the price
which tho auctlonner charged against
The property and collected from the defendant.
The fact Ia, aa we state II. the whole anlmus
Of this cutlery is the perpetuation of a system
by which the auetloneera exact usury from
The newspapers. and by which the litigant Ia
Invariably left out In the cold
However. we learn that the present system
will In ell probability be left undlstu1bed ard
she Pic. and 7imea may therefore calm their
stormy hosoma and turn off their Drumming
ears We arc glad that II is to be 80. but we
know better than To suppose that the citizen
$ to he benefited. and we have not yet reached
he frame IF mind IN which We can protest
that which We know u 10 sham.