The Weekly Comet

If The True Delta takes the following extract from the New York Tribune, and endorses it.

Titles in this country are so hugely multiplied that they have become an outrageous bore. They take up so much space in the newspapers, that, by common consent, they ought to be thrown aside, by sensible people at least. These titles are so diffused as not to be any distinction. No man with any regard for his character would ask to be called Honorable, considering that every actual, or ex-Congressman, Legislator, Judge, Governor, Secretary, or what not, has the privilege of hitching that precious adjective to his cognomen. As for military titles, they have long since fallen beneath respect, for they are no mark of military rank or skill, being given to Governors' aids as well as citizen soldiers.

The confusion that would follow the "simultaneous abandonment" of "titles" cannot at a single glance be conceived; and therefore we object to any of the various cognomens applied to great men, being taken from them. There are many who are known only by "title" and even this is not found sufficient to distinguish them in a legislative body of 300. It is not only necessary to say in speaking of 'great men' the "Hon. Mr. Joel J. Jones: but it is found important to add, of the Parish of "Calcasieu" or "Caddo," la," as the case may be. The business of the "Lower Branch of the Legislature." could never be done without this resort; unless the Hon. members were numbered and their desks marked as in other public institutions.

This plan has many supporters, and the work would be more expeditiously done, if it were resorted to. The only place that "members' names should appear, is on the title page of the volume of acts as jointly interested in the honors thereof.—The buncombe speeches that go into a separate volume, should be thrown out as mere shavings of a carpenter shop.

With such an arrangement, we could at once dispense with the nonsensical phrase of "Honorable gentleman" applied indiscriminately to any knave and ass. But the titles of Military rank should never be dispensed with because the more Generals Winfield Jones' and Genls' George Washington Dixon's we have: the more cloth there is to make Presidents for the Republic out of.

We hope that both the Tribune and the True Delta will abandon the idea of abolishing titles, which we shall oppose with all our might and main; because we have made several generals at this office: and it is a matter of pride with us, that they retain their commissions.