New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-19
Tax Resisting Association.


yonwa. paper tlat mas sustained the
enemy:
We ike ~ see people succeed in good
enterprises but We do not Ike to see them
involve the ignorant and unsuspecting in
enterprises doubtful. as 10 the accomplish
7rent of rood in case OF success, and more
than doubtful as 70 any success at all, eSpe-
cia!Iv when the prime movers dodge the
ayi! consequences, which ta! entirely upon
-ha,r DIMES. as was the case in the late poll
+;cL3n. wa: in New Orleans. Because GER
tain gentlemen, whether Justly or uniusfly.
bay. been deprived OF holding fat offices
that : no reason why others should be in
cited to mob violence ANA resistance to CON
stituted authority.
II the NcEnerv government has failed
and no one wi, deny that the people owe
no allegiance % il. There IS row no such
thinr IN existence. The Kellogg govern
ncnt is now the only State government we
have, and is and has been from the start
the only one recognized by the federal gov
eminent MANY persons are opposed TO this
government, but that does not alter the
case: il is a government stu, and has the
power. both State and federal, to enforce
its authority. Many of cur citizens are OPP
posed TO the United States government, but
sI.ch opposition does no: destroy It. The
Kellogg government l5 an accomplished
fact. and # we owe allegiance tc any State
government. il Is to il. Whether we owe it
or not. We are bound 20 pay it. and there is
DO use in irving 70 resist the inevitable.
The McEnerv government having failed,
som. OF sle disappointed Oces have held a
meeting for the purpose OF taking steps 70
organize a State :axreSlst!ng ASSOCIATION.
bv apoOinting a central committee of five.
with u.adnuarters in New Orleans. and
this committee 10 appoint one from each
parish, who shall be member of the cen.
ira. committee, with the duty OF organizing
the taxcayer. OF his parish into taX-re.
sist.ng association. The object Is TO pre-.
vent the oavment OF taxes TO the tax col
lectors appointed by Governor Kellogg.
If the people will pay the amount OF their
fax bills 70 the McEnefy collectors, it is all
right. In that case there must be nOresisting.
Bat until the McEnery Legislature accounts
Tor the so, 800 or $50 900 which the people
have already turned over to them. We
think the taxpayers mad better not pay any
more money to officers holding their com.
missions from that body: and for the gea-
son that they will also have to pay taxes to
the Kellogg collectors. they had better not
nav t. the McEnery collectors at all. Pay
inc two collectors IS piece ofeXtravagance
that the taxpayers are not at present able
20 stand and from the well known dislike
OF mankind generally TO pay taxes. we do
not believe that our citizens VIII be IN
hurry to pay double taxes. They will have
20 Dav one tax collector. and their faces
viii not se wreathed in smiles when they
do it. whether he be i NcElery collector
or q Kellogg one.
So long as there could De doubt as 70
which State government would succeed.
our counae! would have been for taxpayers
10 pay neither: but now the question IS
practically settled, and taxes paid to col
:ectOr appointed by Governor Kellogg will
not have to De paid a second time.
There are three courses for our taxpayers
to pursue: to pay the Kellogg collectors, 20
nav the McEn.ry coll ctO,s. or to not pay
at all. In the first case our views are al
ready delivered Likewise in the second
case. and one thing - significant: the Me
Emery collectors 30 not even pretend to
coIlec: taxes. They could not if they would
even though the people were willing TO pay
them. .or the Nc Emery Legislature passed
an act 10 postpone II" collection OF taxes IN
definitely. and we have never heard that 1t
was repealed. The NcEnery tax collector
ioc this PARISH. though he was commits
stoned. and = was announced in the C0r''cr
a month agO thar he had qualified by TAX
ing the oath and furnishing his bond has
not even C!alme. the oItlre. which contains
all the records. or assumed to act as Such.
He has c;ven no yuhlic rotice 10 the tax
oavar, that he mad been apDointed. In the
Third case. o, resistance we have but little
to.1- Tha. j. = rjght abont the exercise
of viici, every +axnayer can iudge for him
self If will be seen from articles published
in this paper. that the Democratic Fusion
government Ot New Orleans supports or
achnow !edges The authority of the Kellogg
qoyerDment and the "a y-resistipc there will
be something like the tjgbtjDe, which was lett
to +I. tror,S wbiIetba [,ise nnIitjcians stood
hac'1and awaited the -esuIt. While the fools
wara f%hring' the nojiticians-those that
1,.a,+ed 7n+4;c@,-r-aro - al cor+s of
Nv nosi.ions far coTo,,rorniSse ] " sunnnrteTs
~ f5a KejIoyT roy,arnr,a,t Which simnIv
niaant that t5er wen,ad otf;ca and if tbev
al no, nv i +bor ,,,aro ,roi,r 70 maLa +heir
FOOLS tigTt tar il bnr # tic[, GOT What tbev
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