The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-04-14


as in other things, we are the creatures |
of circumstances to large extent, and
our duty lies in making the lest OF
them. Boston Pest.
Republican Texts.
In a recent debate in Congress the |
following statement was made:
.aThe total amount raised by taxation for |
school purpose, in the whole country. as
shown by the census report, in 1850. was $751;
574.0is. OF this .amcun there was raised IN
the slave-hoding States $9.2.6.l In The amount
per CAPT of the entire population raised in
the Northern stats was SOS. Had the South
g. n States raised as largo an amount per capita
four times what they actually did False
AS this is one of those texts which
Republican papers are fond of preach
ing upon, it is worth brief examination.
Assum NO the correctness of the figures
and they profess to have been drawn
from the ohio al returns OF the last CEN
sus-what is there surprising about
them? The wonder is, not that the
Southern States failed to raise 1856 e.
292 for educational purposes. but that
they were able to raise %, 276. 1926. Aside
from the fact that the South is far less
wealthy than the North, and always has
been, the financial resources of the
former were drained to exhaustion by
four We ,rs' disastrous war. The expen-
ditures of the North in this war were
scarcely felt by the people of that Sec
ton, owing to the immense impetus
given to all kinds of business and the
rapid advance OF values: while the ISL
ness of the South was practically de-
stroyed by invading armies and q rigid
blockade. and property of all kinds de-
prcciated in proportion. Worse than
the war was the Republican reconstruc-
ton which followed it; lasting in one
shape or another for ten ears What
the sword spared the carpet bag and
negro Governments stole or wasted. and
then saddled the States with debts
which the most strenuous efforts can
not pay for some time to come. Less
than six years have ela.sed since the
! Southern people escaped from the Re-
publican yoke and BEGAN to uild liter
ally from the ground up" They have
worked hard, and the success ach eyed
has Leen surprising; but all they have
done is but drop in the bucket COM
pared with what remains to do.
Aside from the political and industrial
embarrassments produced by large
colored population continually stirred
up by Republican agitators, this class oil
the community cannot, as a rule, be
reached by taxation. for the simp'e rca
son that the vast majority of them have
nothing to tax. Consequently the
burden falls most exclusively upon the
whites, who not only have to re tore
their. sh cred fortunes. but must nav
g. Lr.,:.;,.s. -. f,ov.rv,,,,ortai r,ec,,;rs
in motion. Instead, therefore, OF re-
nrooch;ro tho South for dow. tin y az
.. AZ ,.;r,o..rce -
| schools. IL would he more apprOpr ate
, "a ;,,st 90 nr.;sa hor for r;v;rr or
anu JuSc W r. r. Soo ooS ~. -
self-sacrifica than SOC. 600, 600 woul(
80 Nh :. :. .ai:..~ ;n..,n -,
the Nol.n, ano ~ 10 suuins insult " ia
r jury 70 nnu ls.ls VIM 'nose VIZ a. w
{ Ig .nS Ae2s IN VIC tseo =. .Io.c.uo ~
obstacles. IN every oo.'le:n "a. .n'
e"uso pcpu a. a.. ouosn :. ns
tne a''en'iou ns suplvlue Inpo. sIn :
observes. anu snc lao. S snas ,l'a. ~ !
l scnools nave peen es..olS"eu s'nco ~
hepuoncans were uriven ,ou Pome
msre ,han cvc, uololo vusns " e'oI
!, nepupii' "n .lou'n, IN sne gu" $500 90 AZ
: the money $40 eli anu was.eu uuI'ng VI
o res ns'ru s,ou Pe.lou nau Secn saseu
r tnese senoo We Ia 70 'en ''ll'es i'ior
d numerous man my are So LIZ. :,
In sne sa.ne ae .nIer NO sn ~n' W. a.
s ABOVE ex'.sc' - 'aAsn NC nnu inu
2 more s'sn'ncan' anu Suggestive p'is
4 graph
ms ~ .p Se colore nor M
q the the Elm in the last decade was forty-tnree ps
r cent. while the increase OF the white pcpui
rste cf increase Within twyn,yve years Il
j. white race VIII be substantially ext rpated, (
completely oversnad4w ,S h umer.ca'iy; s r
Q Carolina. In the State Of Mks;ssippi they i
j. creased forty-six per cent in the last decad
wne me Of ne ~ miss.sipni ~ ' 4
ssr,e vote ~ ipcrsese would in fwentv-tv