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MEDDLERS UNWELCOME AT NEW ORLEANS. •"No one .an find any fault with the mini-dor* of the gospel and the women associated with them in a movement to suppress the Business Mens winter race meeting. If the law is violated, as citizens of Louisiana it is their privilege to c.inplain and to in*ist that the authorities shall do their duty. But we consider it a piece of impertinence for Mr. W. II. Priugle. resident of Washington. I. C. ami representative of a so called reform bureau, to come here and undertake to interpret for the duly c . n-stituled oflicials of Louisiana our constitution and laws and say how they should l e enforced. "La*t year we bad a similar voluntary ini|K»rt::-tion. who undertook to interest the clergy, the women and the rcss in a similar movement. But he sjnickly shook the citys dust from his he-is when the fact was exposed that lie wa* merely the pre** aent of outside interests, which seek to have racing suppressed here. •.V successful winter lueetinj; was beh. last year. 1 1 It ran with the assent of the governor of the state. The conditions under which it was operated were exhaustively scrutinized lioth by the grand Jury and lie district attorney and it was held not to i.date the letter of the law. "If the meeting this year is to be diffcrentl,- conducted, if it is to breach the statute, if jt g| to be dishouc-stlv operated, it will be suspended. as it ought to be suspended. The pro; er time. however, for the authorities to move is after a breach of the law has occurred, not before. "But the matter is one for the citizens and con-1 stitnted authorities of Louisiana to consider and determine. We need no officious outsiders to teach us morality or to interpret for us our laws." eW Orleans States.
