St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-06-17
(Comnlunicated.)

(Communicated.)
TIGER BEND, La, June 9Th, 1882.
Ed. DEMOCRATS:
The summer months have come, June
the first one is always lovely. All nature
looks green and fresh. The growing
corn, cotton, sugar-cane and grass with
llghtful picture.
SUMNER
And over me unrolls on high
The splendid scenery of the sky,
Where through sapphire sea the sun
sails like a golden g;llleon.
Blow winds, blow, and wait through all the
rooms
The snowhakes of the cherIy-blooms,
Blow winds and bend within my reach
The fiery blossoms of the peach"
was thinking this morning while. [
slipped as it were the nectar from the
richly laden south winds how happy we
ought to be, blessed with the grand
est country on the globe. Born free
xnen and on an independent soil, little
we know or understand the troubles and
SORROWS OF the oppressed nations III
Europe. In Russia the Jewish people
are bowed and bound down under the
neel of the despotic Gar. Nearer US
we find the Irish travelling the storm OF
despotism and bravely contesting every
inch of ground. The Mobile Register
commenting on Russlas,,s affairs re-
marks: "The Gar of all the Russias
must remain another year longer un-
crowned if he shall manage to remain
in the land Of the living during that
length of time, in view of the persistent
plots of the Nihilists to gather him to
his fathers" So it is and will be for
those who Oppress, they live in fear OF
the assassin's hand. Their own con-
science must be torment to them, fill
ing their very soul with fear akin to
torments of the worst sort.
The bright seasons Of the year brings
40 joy for the poor weary laborer, serfe
Or Slave and peasant that is cursed by a
lordly task master, or lives in country
whose police dogs his every step to
make his life one OF long years OF mise
~ and hardships.
AFEW WORDS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS.
There is nothing better in literary
sense than good and well-conducted
newspaper, and as | have before re-
marked through the columns OF the
DEMOCRAT, a good newspaper is the
life of every household. The Kansas
City Times, model and enterprlsing
journal speaking editorially about pa
0GfS tiIluhS tuC newspaper VI u Uo"A
is fair index Of the progress and pros
Derity of that community" The coun-
try over, the newspaper is the advance
sheet, the stepping stone in the grand
march Of morality, art and science.
May give your readers word or
two from the Mascot? The Mascot
claims that the press of New Orleans is
tiebauched. "At meeting of the
trades Union an organization made up
from various industrial societies in the
city, the opinion expressed was that
there is not to-day published in New
Orleans in the English language daily
PAPER which is not subsidized; or Which
will dare to state in unvarnished En-
elish, a solitary fact calculated to i'm
prove or materially benefit the indus
trial class"
That is pretty strong language, but
fhe Mascot evidently knows whereof it
speaks.
Can you tell us anything about what
laws the legislature has passed since
assembling How about the lottery
matterg If one man has right to run
a lottery, why not give others the op-
yortunity. Don't make q class privil-
ege and give all the marrow to one cor
noration and leave the rest out in the
cold.
Give us an amendment, gentlemen,
on the lottery questions. Let us all
have chance to start a lottery then
there will be no more grumbling.
A few locals and am done this pa
per.
The weather is fine, crops all growing
and doing we'll.
There was most too much rain the
first of last week, the land got too wet
to plow, but our farmers went to work
lust as soon as it cleared up.
The section boss at this place, so we
learn, will be put on the Opelousas sec
ton of the Morgan road. Tracklaying
on the NO. Pacific is pushing nearer
the Atchafalaya.
The survey and map for the new
town located on n. O. Pacific r. r. is
about completed. Come up Mr.. Editor
and take look at our country.
Yours, JOHN O'SHANE.
Good Trousers for Cold
Weather.