Show JUSTICE FIRST the business busi nesa men of new orleans are much concerned about the labor troubles which yesterday marob march 12 at that place culminated in the massacre of colored workingmen emen whose only offense was that they quietly took up the work abandoned by the other hsuch violations of jaw naturally tend to create distrust dia and business will as a consequences consequence drift away to places where more favorable conditions exist gleinn this danger the leading men of new orleans promptly hold held a meeting 0 to o discuss ways and means for the protection af the altys commerce the lawless element was waa warned to deaust from the nefarious work and not attempt to prevent any man from perform performing liag honorable go bo far the sentiments expressed by the lead ing business mea mark of the city are be yond criticism but in the address issued to the people they further say we are willing to meet them the rioters amicably if they will return to peaceful elul methods and accept work according to all men equal rights it if not they mey must stand aside and let others work who will this is a rather remarkable offer rafter after the disgraceful occurrences referred to co and caunt t serve to create a favorable impression abroad as a to the thees at meem in which law and justice are held in new orleans the leaders of the mob at that place are not entitled to the amicable lP settlement conditionally promised them what ever their deluded followers may be they have placed themselves in the position of outlaws and as such soiled their hands bands in the blood of their fel they deserve to be delivered up to the lawand law and the efforts of bust bual baw men and others interested in maintaining the reputation of the city should hould first of all to ascertain who the guilty parties are and insist I 1 upon their punishment the time for an n amicable cables agreement t has passed when the majesty of the law has been insulted to the extent of the commis ston ion of barbarous crimes tbt thac riot in the same place sk a few years yeara ago on which occasion aslon re citizens as 89 they were called constituted themselves a howling mob sod killed deliberately a number ot prisoners sonere is a precedent upon which the enraged laborers may have acted and deemed therus elves Ju justified stifled in slaying the negroes negra eg a aad ud it if this new outrage is in permitted to go unpunished on some flimsy pretext or others other it id 18 tolerably certain stat at the next opportunity offered mure blood will flow in the streets of now new orleans orleane the first outrage led to unpleasant pleasant correspondence with italy and the boond second may involve dinv inv ive a rain min lature dispute with england but this is not the he wont feature of bob snob affairs the reputation of the tate state in which lawlessness lawi eneM can flourish unpunished 18 e at stake and that cannot fall to reflect dishonor on the whole republic to some extent let therefore the murderers mur derera be pun lobed to the full extent of their crime and when the law la io vindicated the time has haa come for an amicable adjustment of the differences between employers and labor laborers erL |