The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-05-23
OUR PARISH FINANCES.

cially the affairs Of our Parish have
been managed loosely, negligently
and foolishlly to a degree Of infan-
tile bungling, unknown to people,
having the least pretense to business
capacity or even good common sense.
And that the various and yariegated
Police Juries with which we have
been blessed (?) are alone to blame
for all this depreciation of our Paro-
chial credit and financial depression,
is also fact, a lsmentable truism
which cannot be denied or gainsaid.
We now start once more Ga our re
form line, long preached, and which
we still preach, hoping and praying
that it may turn out, and be CONVEX
ted into practical and solidly &C.
knowledged reform.
Leaving to oblivion's remem-
brapce, and strewing daisies on the
defunct Juries, to which we now only
allude to as warning to the present
new one, who assemblies the second
Monday in June, we respectfully ap-
peal to them to take what we are 60
ing to suggest and recommend in the
proper spirit and with full consider
alton of its Importance, and our word
for it, the Script Of our Parish now
at discount of fifty per cent, and
dull in the market at that, will be all
redeemed, and cash in the Treasury
by the lst day of next september.
The finances of the Parish, or ra-
Their their amelioration, are plainly
in business nutshell, and the new
Police Jury on examination and en-
quiry, can easily discover. The de
linquent rolls of the Parish for the
years 1873, "a and rs, now duly
recorded in the Recorders Office, and
which is lien on theindividual pro-
perty therein assessed and mortgaged
exceed the entire indebtedness of the
Parish by at least ten thousand dol
lars, nearly every dollar of which re-
presents property in each instance
forty fold the tax recorded, and near
ly every dollar of which is collecta-
BILE, within reach and can be put in
the Treasury inside Of sixty days.
This plain, undisputed fact known
and discovered, for which we vouch,
can there be any doubt, any hesita-
ton how the Jury should proceed in
the premises. These facts once
known are knock-down ones, and at
once pave the way to redemption and
cash in the Parish Treasury and the
death to Parish Paper.
Again to aid and swell this fine
financial outlook, the present Collec
tor, with the Tax Roll of 1876 ant
the Licenses of 1877 in his posses
sion. and now in process of col,ec
ton should prove an impetus to thu
Jury to Gil their Treasury by the Is
day Of September with cash surplu:
Of at least ten thousand dollars tt
carry on their works and pay cheaI
, prices for all they contract for. Ant
> the way to fulfill all tLis monied re
form is for the Jury after ascertain
ing the facts as above stated by US
, to at once order according to la2c
, the immediate and forced collection
of the taxes of the three years men
toned above, and not to bulge al
inch from this plain duty, this sen
,, sible reform, and practical redemp
ton of our great Parish from the I'M
pardonable depths Of financial degre
dation she has too long been permit
Ted TO remain in. Gentlemen of th
; Police Jury, you have the remedy,
plain and unvarnished one befor
you, and it only remains for you t.
: face it and put it into execution
We shall expect it of you, and in tn
interest of our people, we shall watcl
you in the premises.
,
, REAT REDUCTION-THE SIN
, " GER SEWING MACHIFES-th