The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-03-29

Cne ScnOOlS. Un every naDu al eA-
preston Of disappointment is made
that his visits have not been oftener
and more extended in time and length.
Very respectfully,
Division Superintendent Public Ed
ucation, Third Division of Louisiana.
What Taxes Will You Resist
[From the N. O. Republican,
We wish to address few words
of business to the capitalists of New
Orleans.
1t is said by the Picaynne and the
disappointed McEnery hordes that you
are going to organize tax resistance.
What tax do you propose to resist 2
Is it the tax to pay the interest on our
State bonds, held either by you or in
New York or in Europe? Your New
York and European customers bought
these State bonds on your recommen-
dation that the interest and principal
would be promptly paid. Are you
willing to go into u combination now
looking to the resistance of the col
lection and payment of this tax into
the State treasury? Is there capi-
talist in New Orleans, who holds
bonds of the State, who does not want
his interest money! It requires the
prompt payment of this tax in order
to get it, not resistance.
Our State bonds are held in many
cases by people Of moderate means !;
by widows and orphans, who are de-
pendent on the interest for a support,
and tax resistance takes the bread
and butter out of the mouths of
these classes. If you, the capitalists
Of New Orleans, organize your tax
resistance societies, or, what is the
same in effect, if you allow them to be
organized in your midst without your
open and sweeping condemnation, II
will not be the g Kellogg government !"
that will he to blame If you, and your
New York and European customers
do not get their interest money. You
certainly, then, would not advocate a
resistance to the I,ny yme,it Of this tax,
which is eleven and IL half mills out OF
twenty one and u half, or about one
half the entire State tax.
Is it the tax of four mills to build
alpl repair our levees that you pro-
pose to resist !? What would New Or
leans he worth without Il system of
levees for our State7 Until the United
States steps in and takes up this bur-
den of levces, the State has no relne-
dy but to furnish the money by tax
alton to do this work, which can not
he left undone without destroying the
State itself. Who builds the levees7
The Louisiana Levee Company, under
a sacred contract with the State.
Who owns the stock of the company :?
Every dollar is held by the capitalists
of New0rleans. Do the stockholders
of this company say they do not de-
sire any dividends on their stock 7
Let them assist i'll organizing tax re-
sistance if they do, and they will not
only not get dividends, but they will
be compelled to continue to do as
they are now doing, viz: to build their
levees on credit.
Is it the school tax that You pro-
pose to resist? Surely you are willing
that the children Of the State should
be educated.
These are all the State taxes, save
four mills for the support of the exec
utive, judicial and legislative depart
ments. Are you not willing to trust
the material interests of the State in
the hands of Governor kellogg and
Auditor Clinton ? AS for the Judiciary,
are they not showing themselves Ca
pable Of surrounding capital with all
needful guarantees And as for the
legislative department, that would
have been long since adjusted but for
meddlesomc politicians, and our word
for it., when the "unquestionably
elected" of the Legislature come to-
gether next winter in regular session,
it will form a legislature a majority
of whom none can need be ashamed
of. Are you willing to say, then, that
you will resist even the payment Of
this tax?
We recapitulate these various taxes,
which are the sum total of all State
tax assessments for the current year,
and hope every capitalist, every par
ty owning State bonds, every party
owning hevee stock, to say nothing
of those interested in having levees
built, every person interested in ed
ucating the children Of the State every
person interested in paying the exec
utive and Judiciary of the State, we
hope all these classes of good citizens
will cut out this recapitulation and
place it prominently or their desks,
and when asked to join tax resisting
associations, point to it as fitting
reply.
Mills
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