St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-04-18
The Result.
The following is an extract from the
market report as taken from the Times
Democrat, of date the 3Oth of March,
1886:

market report as taken from the Times
Democrat, of date the Both of March,
1886:
Bid.
estate warrants, ordinary, 1884, go cents
State warrants, ordinary, 1885, 463 cents"
The above needs no comment 1t
speaks for itself. A Louisiana promise
to pay is not worth fifty cents on the dol
lar! Where it will end, is perfectly
plain. 1t is done in the name of Demo-
crazy. By set of political ring mas
tiers and tricksters, who, while the State
was being brought to its present dis
graceful state of financial ruin, passed
an amendment through the Legislature
giving our bOndmasters one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars year, for
fifteen years, and, when it was voted
down by the people, this same set of
worthless, by some hocuspOcus counted
the amendment in.
Ii there is any two things our present
State Government does understand, it
is levees and finance.
The above paragraph is culled from
the editorial column of the patriot
Democrat" of last Saturday.
1t is showing we'll calculated to
make the cheeks of every Louisianian
to Jingle with shame It is a showing
so alarming, as to cause every rejecting
friend of this common wealth, which
should be young, robust, proud and
prosperous, but which by base stabs in
the house of her protesting friends, is
aged and decrepid,-''is old in youth
and withered in her prince" to doubt
whether her independent autonomy can
be or ought to be maintained, except by
expulsion of the bunglers.
1t furnishes moreover; when the IA
vOrable and plethoIic conditions, under
which the Witt regime, commenced it's
reign, are grayely considered: the most
convincing demonstration, that we are
not only now III mOTibund state, but
that we are destined speedily to be rele-
gated back to the humiliations, which
we inherited as legacy from that hon
est lag0, William Pitt kellogg, when
ordinary State warrants were down to
TEN cents on the dollar, out of which
slough OF humiliation the Nichols Ad-
ministratiOn lifted US, by galvanizing
the old delinquent tax rolls of the four
years OF hellOgg's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1t is patent, that expedient drove the
dishOnOred Kellogg warrants up to 99
cents on the dollar; and after they were
all extinguished by full payment, left
to the succeeding administration large
fund, exclusive and independent of the
current tax rolls. What has become of
the residue of the Kellogg delinquent
rolls which were unpaid when the pres
ent extravagants. assumed the guidance
of the Commonwealth Ii with that
extraordinary source of revenue, war
rants are down to 49, cents, where
would they be to-day without it? The
answer to these questions, we leave to
the plausible Caleb Balderstones, who
as our stewards, we specially commits
stoned to cover up and conceal the
nakedness and restitution Of our old
rat eaten castle. Rat eaten! yes, we
emphasize and reiterate the designa-
tion,-eaten up by the rats of Act SO,
and by transfers of sacred funds, to
some other more accessible funds, and
by all sorts of ingenious circumventing
expedients, notably, counting in con-
stitutiOnal amendments which were no.
toriously defeated and which have gem
Grated around the State Treasury va
riegated and prolific broods OF grey rats,
white rats, and black rats, land pirates,
and water pirates.