The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-27
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TAXES.

and fourteen lax sales against delin-
quents darken the columns Of the
Official Journal Of Rapides, Grant
and Vernon" And this is but the
commencement of the beginning,
which has been forced on the State
and Parish to get their own and to
mete out impartial justice to all alike.
Leniency has been exhausted, beg
cling and entreating have been stig-
matized and the Tax Collector has
been rowelled to the most unpleasant
Of duties, and surely no one can
blame him. We speak con an,ore for
poor Rapides, whose paper has been
hawked around at 40 cents on the
dollar, and only then honored by
sharks, and for her punctual tax
payers, who have long since demand
ed the turning Of these screws. Man
fully do we feel for our people thus
stricken, but this very dispensation
and favoritism has been their curse
and our own, and it is time it should
cease. We repeat the Tax Collector
is only doing his duty, so long neg
lected, AM, though an unpleasant one,
he has the law and justice at his side
and the good people of the Parish at
his back.
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We had occasion sometime since
to notice, with sharp dissent, the
slanderous course of our croakers
and fault-inders towards the treat
ment Of the lahorers, under the man
agement of Major S. L. James, now
under contract work with the New
Orleans Pacific Railroad. From
what we can CLEAN from purely
disinterested sources, these soreheads
and tramps have again been at work,
striving to injure the Lessee of the
Convicts with the State authorities,
thereby endeavoring to impede the
onward progress Of the Road, and
thus pandering to their vile and de-
bauched prejudices and jaundiced
ideas IF right and wrong. We again
reiterate our former expressions in
this matter, and know they can be
proven into facts right here by any
one who will take the trouble to in
form himself. The laborers are all
in fine health, well clothed, well fed,
well housed, and like all such, work
well and even with some willingness !;
and visit to their works or camps
will repay any one and easily con-
vince him, that again the croakers
and tramps are on the wrong scent.
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We have now in Rapides some
sort Of Colored Mutual Association,
pretending to be Changers, under the
management and guidance of two
well known colored political leaders,
which will bear watching. There is
something about the concern. which,
smacks Of radical wire pnlling,-in di-
rect opposition to the planters, is in
tended to harm them in their labor
the coming year and at the same
time politics a Ia Counting Board are
the ruling springs in the whole con-
Germ. Our people who are over cap
tious on minor topics should break
their Incidence in this wise and give
the subject u good and searching
scrutiny before the wooden horse
turns our more enemies for us and
our peace and prosperity. Strike in
in time and be sure you are right,
and then go ahead.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PLENTY of cotton coming to our
Town from the highlands, which is
of better staple than that of our
lowlaqds, and commands higher
prices and more competition in our
home market. It is rare sport and
good fun to see our buyers charge
and capture the arriving wagons, and
the extra hug they give the driver
and owner, and the more than press
ing invitation, "let's take drink, I
know you look tired and are dry
And in many instances That light
ming beam strikes to the very centre,
and up goes the staple and down goes
the Jehu!
-THE lower gang of Railroad la
borers, two hundred in number, have
finished up to the Bayou crossing,
and will now move in the Corpora
ton, and soon, very soon, the ties
will be here and the laying thereof
will commence-then the iron-then
the steam-engine and cars, and then
I'VE have the Railroad sure enough
and o1oo fhon ooco, thn f,.a..I