The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-03-23
At LAST.
Ouchita Trlruraph.1

81 The Legislature having exhausted
( the constitutional limitation in "bun.
4 |;nm' speeches, adjourned sine die
Hyrsterday. The event ought to have
Z been made memorable by "thanl:s
Sgiving and prayer" How IT or its
= apoloSists are to answer for its short
: conring> and drreirtions, are no parts
: Of oar study or undertaking.
A good working majority in both
: houses have been entirely Overcome
aby the ac1tenrsS of two or three of
!! tile minority, and the sixty days have
= been FILTERED away without any APP
: preciabe results. We look in vain
thronah bills introduced, substitutes
. Offered, amendments, and wranglins
autterancc> on every topic within the
.angc OF the intellectual horizon, fo,
= lone substantial measure ofrclirf. All
4 the wrongs OF 1876. to the rcdrrssing
: of which every orator and hand clap.
=. per was pledged, are in stdM quo.-
awe feel the wrongs, we heard the
: promises, but we must refer our
: friends to their representatives tor the
\ performances.
We undertake to say that had the
aGcncraI Assembly met aud passed the
bill reducing it's expenses, aud the
{ revenue bill, and AL jonrned, the State
wou|d have saved more than SlOO. 30
!! and that the balance Of It's legislation
would never have been missed or
swantcd.
! T!" pr posed amendments are Il
compl"miSe between office holders,
monopo|>ts and Republican politi-
clans, and form a bundle of cruditics
that no Legislature can methodist.
land that would revolutionize the in.
dietary system of the State without
giving any practicable. or ineligible
substitute. Yet we are g,ave|y in
formed that they are good enough for
the present. No expediency contri-
vance, tie it constitution or constitu-
ltional amendments, is good enough
for this or any other free people. The
humber of amendments is of itself
conclusive of the impracticab|eness of
the consultation of 1868, to the chan
red condition of things, and the ne
cesSity of an entire revision Of the
fundamental law. The members of
the last Legislature were pledged to
; it, and in pretermitting it they show
ed themselves unequal to the task as
signed them, and unconscious of the
srandest political opportunity OF their
lives. 1t will not Ito to declare here
|or elsewhere that "the people do not
know what they WANT They have
felt the heavy hand Of poverty too
long not to know that every branch
of extravaganza should be Topped oft:
that every supertlnous office should he
abolished; that all salaries shonlo hp
cut down to living rates, aud that a
constitutional convention is the only
means by which it can be Effected
They know that their wants are rea,
|sonable, urgent and inst.
Parliamentary tactics may and has
loo doubt defeated Mr.. Kidd's conven-
|tion bill. 1t was a wilfull and wicked
determination to deprive the people
"f a sacred right and force upon them
the miserable conditions imposed by
the Louisiana Lottery Company.
The people will resist it for they
cannot so for yet themselves as to let
ANY one of the amendments obtain
their sanction. Yield now and they
are slaves for life, show Their manhood
and no future Legislature will dare
question or infringe their peroga-
tive.