The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-18
Catechism for Little Louisiana Republicans

CatecnlSm Tor LlCtle LOUISIANA KepuDuCS00
Question. Who are the people?
Answer. The inhabitants of Louisiana.
@. What are they?
A. Mere beasts Of burden.
@. What are they good for?
A. To labor and earn money and pay it over
to the tax-gatherers for the benefit of the
"trooly loil."
Q. Have the people of Louisiana no polite
cal rights?
A. None that the carpet-baggers consider
themselves bound to respect.
Q. Does not the Constitution guarantee to
them certain rights and privileges?
A. These guarantees are only meant for
those who are loyal and faithful to my creator.
Q. Have the people of Louisiana no votes
in the election Of their public rulers?
mark afidavits.
Q. Have they no voice?
A. None that we can stihe or suborn.
Z. Have they no money?
A. None that we will not have before We
are through with them.
Q. Have they no property?
A. Some of them have little left, but We
will soon deprive them of it.
Q. Do the people give up their property, in
the form Of taxes cheerfully?
A. No; but we say SO in our prayers to VIII
liams
@. Who is Williams?
A. He is my Creators right bower and the
ignorer of the peoples ghts
Q. In what way does he ignore the rights Of
the people?
A. By sending them word that Grants mind
is made up; that they need not come to
Washington to even try to change it, and that
the best thing they can do is to 60 to work,
make money for the rulers and let politics
alone.
Q. How do the people receive this from
Williams?
A. Not kindly. They attribute it to gross
Misrepresentation or wanton disregard of
their rights.
O. How much has the peoples property
declined in value since you have Oeen dc
tdcto !?
A. About fifty per cent.
O. What is the amount of your State debit
A. We represent it at S25, OOO, 900, but it is
really about $40, 1000.
O. What is the city debt?
A. 100000.
@. How are the State and city bonds SELL
ing?
A. The State bonds have no price at all
now. The last heard of them they were at
20 cents. The city bonds are dull at 40 cents
on the dollar.
@. What is the assessed value of the taxa
BILE property of the State, real and personal?
A. s23S,0OO,OOO.
Q. What is the aggregate annual taxation,
State, parish. city and town?
A. Over 100000,
Q. How many inhabitants in the State, all
told?
A. About 100000.
@. How much is that per head black and
white, man, woman and child?
A. About SIG per head per annum, not in
Guiding poll-tax.
Q. Have you and your party paid the poll
tax?
A. No; we pay neitherpoll nor any other tax.
Our business is not to pay taxes but to coll
lect, divide and pocket them. /, myself, have
an interest in about fifteen or twenty tax col
lector's offices. We have the peaple to pay tases;
we receive and enjoy them. The people must
toll and save their hard earnings, SO that We
can have 10000, 600 again next year.
Q. When do you expect this spoilation 10
come to an end?
A. Never while the people have cent left
for us to grind out of them at the PRISONS
door or lannon's mouth.
Q. Would you strip the people of their last
button to their last shirt?
A. To borrow the polite language of friend
who advised me to keep on my shirt, would
not leave the people even shirts to keep ON.
Could have my way, I would sell them to-
morrow, if 1 could find buyer, and then
mortgage their children, so much am embit-
tered toward them for their stubborn resist
ance to me, and their disloyalty towards my
adorable President, that sacred central sum
around which revolve and from which alone
I draw whatever life officially enjoy.
Q.-Do you think the people viii come to
love and respect you?
A.-Judging by the rate they have been
coming in to express their love and respect
for me, should say that, by the time am as
old as Methuselah, about one per cent Of them
will so have declared themselves. And,
Judging by the samples that have come over,
shall be much older than Methuselah before
shall see one of them coming who is not
actuated by more than carpetbagger's lovefor
spoils, if that be possible.
OF you succeed in defrauding the ballot
box, in counting out the Last Ditchers and in
sitting the press, in whom, then, can the
people trust?
Al don't know Grant knows III ask
Williams if Grant knows
1t doesn't make any difference if a man has
said his prayers before going to bed Let
crackers or crumbs get between the sheets,
and he won't go back on satisfaction short of
three or four {" swears," anyhow.