The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-10-19
Practical Talk.
From Gen H. j. CampbelTs ST. Charles
parish speech.l

Let me call your attention to
another fact. Surprising that /.
against the advice of myself and
another of your friends you should
follow the attempt of few white
men that was made in this State (
to get you to come together in a
black mans party. all one way,
and the white people all the other
way. Do you know what that
will lead to! What has been the
history of the last four years.
You havn't seen much in st.
Charles, because you have been
peaceful and quiet. But you have
heard from other parishes; you
have heard from Orleans that we
have had fight after fight, trouble
after trouble, riot after riot, muir
der after murder; property has
gone down, labor has been stopped
on plantations; every interest has
suffered, every personals suffered.
Now, if you keep up the black
mans party, it will be the same
thing for the next four years.
Now, if that is done what will hap
pen! In the first place, the black
mans party will have their Gov
ernor down in New Orleans, and
he will be calling for the federal
troops, and they will come, and
have big row, and that will cost
you $4,000 or $4,000 or $780,
600. Then, again, the white man
will have his Government, and he
will get mp row, and you will
have the soldiers called out again,
and your militia and your Legis-
lature and that will cost you an
other 100000. You may say that
doesn't cost me much. | tell you
it costs you more than it does the
white man, and | will tell you why.
1 will give yen an instance.
Last winter the two parties had
fight, one Governor and one Leg
islature in one building and an
other Governor and another LegiS-
latuTein another building. They
had"their soldiers and federal
soldiers, marching them backward
and forward aud doing all sorts of
foolish things. That cost near
100000. Who pays that? You
say Mr.. So and-So, and Mr.. So-and-
So, who owns all these lands,
pays it. You think Mr.. This, or
Mr.. That, who is a stoorkeeper,
pays it. Not a bit Of it. What
do you buy at the store? Coffee,
sugar, cotton, clothes.
What do you have TO pay for a
pair OF shoes when You 60 to the
store? A voice from the crowd
i-S2.25.I Do you know what
they cost up in the North where
they don't have this high taxation?
They cost about 81. What do
you pay for your sugar A
voice-fifteen cents. What do
you pay for your coffee? | A voice
twenty five cents, sometimes
thirty cents What do you pay
for your salts A voice-five
cents pound. ! have seen the
time when you conld get a bucket
full for five cents. Do you know
why these things cost SO much!
Why, the storekeeper says this;
II have got to pay tax of S10C
or $1,000, and for this | am going
to sell so many pounds of sugar
and so much of coffee, and of salt
and will divide it all around by
putting little on to the price oil
each of these things" He does
that and you pay the tax for him
You see that everything that you
buy for your children, everything
that you put on, everything thai
: you put in your mouth, the tax il
there, and you pay it. Do you
want that state of things to &C
ont How much do you make /
month ? Tell me some of you
A voice-A dollar a day anC
/. find ourselves. What does i
cost yon to find YOURSELF re-
voice-It cost that whole dollar.
Now, suppose everything that you
came down to half the price it i
now, you would save that S15 ;
: month. The moment you reduct
, the taxes, then the price of thes,
things will go down.
the man that runs the plan
, tation will have smaller taxes, the
, man that sells the supplies vii
; have TO pay smaller licenses, S,
! he will put on less to the price o
, his goods for his profit.
; Every time you form a blacl
, mans party in this countr'
! against a white mans party Vol
) are putting on these taxes, ant
making it harder for you to liv