The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-04-12
PRACTICAL HINTS ABOUT TAXES.

INAC11OAAI HIN ADVoA <ANHH'e
If Kellogg's tax collectors shall
proceed to advertise for sale all the
property in this State returned for nom
payment of taxes to them, we guess
that of the So, 1924 square miles compri-
sed in Louisiana, 10000, at least, will
be offered for sale. AS nearly every
man in tho State Is already 1etnd-poor,
and would be obliged to Mr.. kellogg if
he would sell their lands for them at
equitable figures, it is not very clear to
our mind where purchasers are to be
found, especially when Mr.. Kellogg's
title is the only reliance for future
security.
Two things are very important in
effecting sale: one is a market with
buyers, and the other is the capacity to
make good title.
Buyers Of land in this State, even at
taxes and costs, is Il thing out OF the
order of probabilities. A people who
can't buy Il years supply of bacon and
corn are not in a condition to expend
much money for land. Besides that,
the land is not wanted, and unless an
individual wants land, no matter how
heavy his purse is, he is not apt to buy.
We do not know what he might do,
however, just to please Mr.. Kellogg !;
but in the present rather nervous con-
dition of the public mind, one would
have to love Mr.. kellogg very tenderly
and to covet piece of land very pas
sionately, to bid it in Mt tax coIlec-
tors sale.
The tax-paying people are not only
down on the Kellogg fraud, and have
their minds made up to defeat it if
they can, but they are out generally
with the exorbitant style Of ax-gather-
ing under which they have groancd
and struggled for four years. They arc
restless from being over-crowded by
drones, and they are ready to swarm
in force. 1t is no respect for the drones
that troubles their meditations and
iabors, but Il want OF concert and unity
in Il plan to get rid of them.
Happily, circumstances conspirc to
unite the people and to intensity their
opposition to the Kellogg government.
No parade, or even public avowal by
any prominent citizen, has been n1ade
of the fact, but it is certainly fact that
there is Il large element in Louisiana
not overly tenacious about paying all
tho debt said to be due by the State
There is another clement ia large
Radical element, too that neither
history nor tradition eulogzies for strict
pecuniary responsibility, or sensible
appreciation thereof, and which is as
much opposed to paying Mr.. Kellogg
as Mr.. Anybodyelse, and rice rcrxa.-
Another class Of people there is, who
are now organizing to stop the payment
of taxes by any one. Without further
enumeration, we close the list with
that large and sorrowful host of citizens
who are too poor to pay taxes, even if
they were over so willing to pay.
Here, then, is a formidable array of
opinions and interests all tending, either
actively or passivcly, to the same end.
Does Mr.. Kellogg really believe that
his abortive government can survive
the constant pelting and worrying of
such an opposition:
TO do it, it must have friends,-right
may be out of the question. Who are
the Usurpers' friends : Can they buy
aStatc ut tax sales. Can they and will
they defy Public Opinion to the extent
of being denounced, ridiculed md de-
spiscd wherever they appear: Will
they attempt to dispusscss OF their
houses and their cattle and their furni-
ture the poor who are sold out by Kcl-
logg taN-gathcrcrs Will they dare
drive men, women and children into
the streets and highways: If moi, what
arc they going to do With the farms or
the dwellings they buy? If their pur-
pose be to drive people from their
homes, have they considered what it is
to provoke the anger of ~ father and a
husband who finds himself tho home.