The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
The Result.


Says the Clinton Southern Watch
men: "The following Is an extract
from the marHet report as taken from
the Times Democrat, of date the Both
OF March. 1885:
State warrants, ordinary, 1884, co cts
State warrants, ordinary, 1885. 46, cts
The above needs no comment. 1t
speaks for itself A Louisiana prom
Use to pay is not worth fifty cents on
the dollar, Where 10 will end, Is per-
fectly plain. 1t is done in TIE name
of Democracy. BY set Of political
ring masters and tricksters who,
while the State was being brought to
its pr sent diagraceful state of finan-
cial ruin, passed an amendment
the Legislature giving orr bond mas
tiers $40, 001 year for fifteen years,
and when it was voted down by the
people, this same set of WORTHLESS, by
some hocus pocus counted the amend
ment in
If there are any two things our
present State Government does an
derstand, it is levees and financs.
The above paragraph is culled from
the editorial column of the Patriot
Democrat, of recent date.
1t is a showing well calculated to
make the cheeks of every Louisian-
ian to Jingle with shame. lr is a
showing so alarming as to cause ev-
cry rejecting friend Of this common
wealth-which should be young, ro-
bust, proud and prosperous. but
which by base stahs in the house of
her profess ng friends is agod and de-
crepid-"is old in youth and wither-
Ell in ner rrime"-doubt whether her
autonomy can be or ought 70 be main-
tanned, except bv expulsion of the
burglars.
1t furnishes, moreover, when the
favorable and plelhoric conditions
under which the Wilt regime COM
menced its reign are gravely consiG-
cred, the most convincing demonstra-
ton that we are not only now in II
moribund state. hut that we are de-
stlned speedily to be relegated hack
to the hnmiliatiOns which we inner
tied as a legacy from that honest La
II oil n /
nary State warrants were down to 10
cents on the dollar, out of which
slough of humiliation the NiahotIs
administration lifted us, by galvan-
izing the old delinuuent tax rolls of
the four years of Kellogg,s malad-
mlnistration. II IL patent that expe-
dent drove the disfonored Kellogg
warrants up to- 9S cents or the 81, and
after they we're all extirguish It ny
FIJI payment, left TO the succeeding
administra ton large fund, exclu-
sive aud independent of the current
tax rolls. What has become of the
residue of the Kellogg delinquent
rolls which We're unpaid whom the
present extravagants assumed the
guidance of the Commonwealth? If
If with the extraordinary source of
revenue warrants are down to 4G ! .
cents, where would the he today
without it? The answers to these
questions we leave to the plausible
Caleb GalderStones. no as our stew
ards, we specially commissioned TO
cover up aud conceal the nakedness
and destitution of our old rat eaten
castle. Rs eaten yes, we empha-
size and reiterate the designation
eaten up Ivy the rats of act 80, and by
transfers of sacred fuRdss to some
other more accessible funds, and by
all sorts Of ingenious circumventing
expedients, notably counting in con-
sttaiinnal amendments which were
. VIGOROUSLY defea ted, and which have
generated around the State Treasury
variegat ted and prolific hroods CT gay
rats, white rats and black rats, land
and water pirates.
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