The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-05-31
THE TAXPAYERS MOVING,

umn, was largely attended and
tremendously conducted. L Ii
meeting passed a resolution invit-
ing the different parishes to send
delegates to general convention
of the taxpayers i'll the State, to
meet in the city of New Orleans on
the second Saturday in July. We
hope that this invitation will meet
with general favorable response:
The people Of South Carolina. who
are cursed with as ruinous sys-
TEN of taxation as we, have recent
ly held a Convention, and from it
the most beneficial results are con-
fidently anticipated. Even North
ern Radicals, from whose acts we
derive all our burdens, commend
the plan of endeayoring to redress
our wrongs by public assemblies of
the people. The taxation i'll, this
State is getting to be so burden
some, and the prospects of It's in
crease so fattering, that the minds
of the people have become awaken
ed to the fact that either some
mode Of relief must be found, or
every taxpayer in the State will
become hopelessly bankrupt.
Our meeting also, it will be OBJ
served, took steps to obtain the
cooperation of all the taxpayers
in an effort to test in the Court the
question of the collection of GER
tain taxes. From this effort much
relief will undoubtedly flow. The
prohibition in the existing reven-
lie law on the Courts to interfere
by injunction against the tax col
lector has been held by the Su-
preme Court not to apply to the
taxes Of those years prior to the
passage of the Act. Taxes regu-
larry assessed since the passage of
the act must necessarily be paid.
There is no escape from them. But
we have been called on to pay tax
es which were irregularly assessed,
and taxes which are more than
two years old, which the Supreme
Court has decided to be prescribed.
If these are resisted much money
can be saved to our people. More
over, the school tax has generally
been considered most fruitful
field for Radical ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
Mr.. L. w. Conway, the immaculate
educator, priest and poet, got a
bill passed at the last session of the
Legislature levying a tax of $780,
900 on the people OF the city OF
New Orleans for the support of the
city schools. The mouths of the
Radical cormorants who h q n g
aroung the Conway crib began to
water at the splendid feast before
them. They have recently, how
ever, been cut off at the knees by a
decision of the Supreme Court
which pronounccs the act uncon-
stitutional, null and void. The
Supreme Court very properly de-
cides that under Article 11S of the
Constitution, no school tax can be
levied except capitation tax, and
that can never exceed dollar and
a half a head. AS this tax is lev
led on every male over twentyone-
it will be seen that the Radical idea
of making Conservative citizens
pay for the education of Radical
voters has been incontinently ex.
ploded by a Republican Supreme
Court. The Rapides meeting con-
template only a legal and consti-
tutional resistance to the outrage
GUS taxation under which we Ia
Dor. The same spirit will also un-
doubtedly animate the Convention
which we hope to see largely atten-
ded.
a According to the last ac-
counts the Commune, the Red Re.
publican mob which recently held
the city Of Paris, has been over.
come by the Versailles government
With characteristic vandalism the
last moments of the mob were de.
voted to the destruction of the
Louvre, the Tuilleries, and other
ornaments of the Queen city of the
World. It is to be hoped that the
leaders of this rabble will NEE,
with that summary punishment
which such acts deserve. What
will be the next act in the drama
poor France is enacting, is difficult
to for see.
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- The Ripbt Hon Sir Gaorrt