Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-09-18
TIL Il AGAIN.

We have worried our readers 80 niue
n upon the subject Of Ievees and levee res
: ulations that, no doubt, they are hearth
: tired of IT. although fully swafe Of it
9 Importance. But if we again refer to i
it is because we desire to awaken, if pos
r sibie. in an adjoining parish, that nnerg.
and spirit we have shown in protectin,
ourselves when left to the tender mercie,
of the great father of waters by tht
present very efficient Board of Publ.
Works. In several numbers Of our pa
per We appealed 20 the authorities and
citizeDs of Point Coupee to make an eff
fort to keep up their ~levees, ever if done
by special taxation, SO as to protect them.
selves and thus assist Others who are en-
deayoring to DO the same thing. No 90
tice whatever has been taken OF
those appeals, hor are we aware that
one that one person In a hundred Of that
sluggish parish cares whether they are
overfiowed or not. At least the official
journal of Point Coupee, that does the
State work and other official chores, has
never ever alluded to the matter, uof do
the proceedings Of the police jury show
that the subject was ever discussed or
mentioned in that immaculate body
We have no right TO complain if that
parish chooses to drown herself. but IN
fortunately, while thus carelessly ignor-
ing her own interests, we suffer TO a great
extent from the same cause. Should the
break IN the ievee Just above the Grand
work OF that name be not closed by the
citizens or parish authorities, we will get
the same quantity of water we did last
year. and perhaps more by the washing |
the opening. What it will cost to
close it we have no means of knowing,
but the question of cos should not deter
people of that parish from closing it
speedily as possible if they value their
own safety.
We have had a very good season for
cotton, and ii is fair to presume that we
shall have q similar one lex year.
such at least is the rule generally fol-
by Nature in dispensing her fav-
IRIS. Two of a kind usually go together
Sut laying all theories and specuiations
side, if that parish is yerdant and ig
GRANT enough to wait for the Board of
'ublic Words to close the break lust
,entioned--especially after being inform
d that that body has no means of .hard {
'g assistance, why then she deserves to g
edrowned out and her ~landholders ruined T
he fable of Jupiter and the WAGNER c
lay be applied in this instance. Calling /
Q Jupiter for help don't pay. The Board
Public Work, collectively. represent t
JUPITER. We must put our own shoulders Q
} the wheel and push the wagon through.
Mess protected by our W efforts, and
'ere is no other present remedy. i, will :,
Tar better TO EN- CRATE to the highlands :.
here we shall be above overflow j, y
Ill be cheaper, and that fact is patent Il
is growing late. If the people of 8
olnt Conpee intead doing anything in u
- -. el
us matter, it is time they were at work.
very days delay is added to the DAM :
pr. Upon a parish as large and popu- :
us as that, a small tax would suffice.
1T alone to build a new levee, but to r
pair and keep up all Others within her Il
The experience we have had Al
this connection, ought to be a lesson o
her and an example she can follow Ii
lthout at all hurting herself. Let us OF
pc her citizens will yet awaken to the
ceesity and Importance of this work i,
ID commence at once. 4
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