The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-01-22

Inc most hopeful witness produced by the
Kellogg party, while he declared that busi-
ness was in a sounder condition than ever
before, because there was less credit, has
since declared that there was no prosperity.
The securities of the state have fallen in two
years from 40 or so to 25, of the city of New
Orleans from so or 30 to 80 or 80, while the
fall in bank shares, railroad shares, city and
other corporate companies have in degree
correspondrd.
Within the parishes as we'll as in New Or
| leans, the taxation had been carried on al
most literally TO the extent OF Cauiiscation,
In New Orleans the assessors are paid com
mission on the amoJnt appraised, and houses
aud stores are to be had there for the taxes.
In Nachitoches parish the taxation reach1e
about eight per cent. of the assessed value Of
| property, In many parishes all the white re-
| publicans and all the oiliceholders belong to
a sing le family. There are five of the Greens
in office in Lincoln parish, and there are
seven of the Bouts in office in the parish Of
| Nachitoches As the people saw taxation in
crease and prosperity diminish, as they grew
poor, while the officers grew rich, they be-
came naturally sore That they loved their
rulers cannot be pretended
| Tho Kellogg government claims to have
| reduced taxation. This has been Effected in
part by establishing board to fund the debt
of the state mt sixty per cent, OF its face value.
| This measure aroused great hostility, not so
much because Of the reduction Of its ac-
| knowleged debt IA because it gave to the
| funding board, whose powers seem to be alb
solute and without review, Discretionary au-
| thority to admit to he funded some Sc 0Oo 600
Of debt alleged to be fraudulent, so that un-
der the guisc Of reducing the acknowledged
debt it gave opportunity to swell the fraud
1 Il. 4,
state taxes has been accompanied by pre-
vision that the parishes taxed snail not cx
coed the State bat parishes have notwith-
standing created liabilities. judgments hay-
ing been recovered on them, the courts have
directed taxes to be levied for their payment
and thus the actual taxes have been carried
| far beyond the authorized rates. Rings have
been formed in parishes composed of parish
| officers, their relatives, who would buy up
their obligations, put them in judgment, and
cause them to be enforced to the great dis
trcs5 of the ncighborhcod- distress so great
that the sales Of lands for taxes have become
almost absolutely impossible.
II Louisiana was Il country by itself,
NJ Emery and his associates would at once be
installed in power, but the conservatives OF
Louisiana do not propose to fight the federal
government
| lncN SuDmll-llOl DctduSt lucN WANT 10,
but because they must-nOt because they
proclaim any enmity against the flag, not
because free labor has not been found prac-
ticable, not because of any hostility to the
colorod people because they are colored, but
because they regard themselves as defrauled
out of the election Of 1872, and yet more out
of the last election, and because they think
their State government has been to the last
degree destructive and corrupt.
Indeed, in our judgment, the substantial
cit zens of the State will submit to any fair
determination Of the question of the late
election, or to anything by which they can
secure firm and good government What
they seek is peace and an opportunity for
prosperity.
The report abounds in similar exposures
of frauds and villainies, which want OF room
compcls us to omit.
And all this fraud and outrage is m&i-
tanned at the expense Of the people Of the
United States. 1t is they who pay the stand
ing army and its "banditti" Generals, for OPP
pressing these people, aud they pay the at
tendent costs Of Congressional debates, in
vestgating committees, and hordcs Of ad-
ditional office holders to attend to this bu3i-
ness, and it is by such expenditures that the
reduction of the Federal debt is reyented.
Will the people sustain plrty that is guilty
of perpetrating or protecting those who per-
petuate such action