The People's vindicator., 1874-06-27
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Grandfather Whiteheads Stories

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over three 80. How sugar.coa,ed
the words, and honicd the advice. ,
perfect soothing syrup" as it were
with its anxiety that no cause shouIJ
arise or occasion occur, that any One
should "get hurt." But to render thi,
story instructive, the writer shoula
have pointed his moral; ; as he has
overlooked or neglected to do 30, vc
will attempt to supply that deficiency.
We will skip the preliminary part of
his tale, and "assume the aspect" of
putting a little plain English to apply
| to the meek and water etfusion now
before us:
"All of the judgment creditors,
with a very few exceptions, were pre-.
sent and participants in the meeting.
yet nothing was done with this tax
then and there, when the most oner-
ous taxation existed, and was repre-.
scnted. When the preliminary part
of the meeting was through with scv-
cral speeches were made, exhibiting
marked efforts of passion and temper.
The meeting assumed a political as
pect. The Republicans were denounc.
ed individually and collectively: tho
court and judges denounced, aR for
the sake of taxation. We cannot for
our lives see what the District Court
had to do with taxation, or the de-
nunciation of individual Republicans
had to do with the postponement or
reduction of taxes. The taxes had
been reduced, and remittcd in two
particulars. The occasion WIS Ger.
tainly a fitting one to make an attack
upon the Republican party. because
advantage could be taken of the in
famed condition of the minds of the
people, on account of high taxation,
and hence inhammatory speeches
were in order.
You cannot see "for the life of you,"
why you are denounced. OF course
you are not responsible for this tax
alton; for the issue of parish money;
for the present condition of our par
ish. Oh, no 1t was caused by the
war; Which war? That of 1912 or
Or 1865: You could just as we'll ap.
ply the one as q cause rs tho other.
1t does not take Il people possessed OF
our advantages 4 century nor ten
years to recover from a war, no mat
;er how disastrous. It was perhaps
;he Democrats who stole the money;
If course they have ruled the parish
Tor the past six years. Suppose We
'ay that these Republican individu-
us, the very ones named in the reso-
utions and speeches at the mass meet
ng, are tile persons who are RESPONSE
Ne for all this ruin and degradation
hat is now upon us, what then.
"They give no credit to the Gov
rnor and the Auditor f"r causing tho
eduction of G1 mills Of State tax.
They give no credit to the Attorney
General for saving the State S5OO,OOO
N the General appropriation Bill,
md saving S950,OO0 on the State
louse contract. All these things arc
redits to the Republican party, but
seems they discussed only the debit
idc. If the intention of the argu-
nent on that occasion was designed
array one race against the other,
ind we cannot see it in any other
ight), and organize a white mans
arty, the gentlemen taking the in.
5iative have assumed grave author
y and responsibility; they have a
onaerous load to bear, one that We
o not envy them. We agree that
he last Legislature did some acts
'hich were discreditable, and ono
lstance in particular which We con-
der without precedent, that of pay
g the mileage and per diem of those
no were members of the McEnery
and who had rendered no
'rvice to the State, and for the largo
mount paid to these persons, the
pople Of this parish must bear q part
the burden to pay by taxation.
hese payments were not made to
epublicans but to Democrats, some
whom cannot be too violent in
eir denunciation Of the Republican
lrty."
How did you reduce your State tax
mills, was it not just this way'
ou contracted a debt for the people,
ID not your people either, for all the
xes your Southern Radicals pays,
but a tithe to what the Democrats
e forced to put up; that debt had
en- increased ;all the time to your
lowledge, that of your Governor,
lditor and the Modern Senegambian
'nsaroos, whom You delegate each
ar to represent other peoples proper