St. Landry democrat., 1885-04-04
GUMMY Po1Nr, Pine Prairie, !
March 25th, 1885. !

two weeks have been from the north
and north east keeping it cold and
chilly and Spring is coming along
" steady by jerks" with growing wealth
er, like the ague and fever at the west,
every other day, making the season
more backward than usual. AS l in
formed you in my last, farmers and
planters will have more acres OF corn
and cotton about here than last year
and have most of their corn planting
finished, that that has come up promls-
ing to be a good stand. With reason
able good weather until 18th to goth OF
April cotton will be mostly planted.
Let France war with China, and En-
gland with Russia and the Arabs IN
Africa, the United States can feed the
frenchman and Johnny Bull as long as
they can keep up the fight. All the
corn, all the cotton, and all the beef
and pork the whole country will have
or can produce for the next two or three
wears may be wanted. 1t is always
darkest Just before day" and with two
good crops of corn and cotton, with
healthy cattle and hogs, the bread OF
the planters and stock raisers OF St.
Landry win be "butter side up" In
the Democrat of the 21st inst, | like
YOUR article on President Cleveland and
his giving the politicians dissatisfac-
ton. The more the professed politician
is dissatisfied the more the people Will
be satisfied that their rights are being
protected. High Office is like pyra-
mid, only two kinds of animals reach
the Summit, reptiles and Eagles" and
until the election of Grover Cleveland
as President, for past sixteen years
particularly the reptiles have had 1t all
their own way in controlling the policy
of the government, but now, thank God
and the intelligent and patriotic voters
of the country the eagles are to direct
! and control governmental affairs for at
] least four years. 1t is perhaps out OF
place now to mention the infamous
treatment the people of this country
have received through republican Con-
, gressional legislation from time to time
} during the last twenty years. 1t may
be forgiven but never forgotten. Three
, times republican administration
changed the agreement relative to
government bonds and each time
against the American people. Origi-
nally the bonds were payable in lawful
money. The same money that was paid
for the bonds. But republican legisla-
ton made both principal and interest
payable in coin and robbed the people
of more than $5OO,O00,OOO by such
change. Afterwards silver was by the
same kind of legislation demOnitized
and the agreement again changed in
the interest of the bond holders with
no consideration, cheating the people
again out of at least $300,0O0000. The
third change was TO establish gold ex-
clusively as the measure and basis OF
values and again the people were cheat
ed and robbed by republican legisla-
J ton. The country had but just
r emerged from an expensive bloody wal
{ else believe the taxation necessary to
carry on the government could moi
have been enforced. In 1877 the taxes
, per capita paid by the American
, people were $3.50; British, $11.09
French, $11.41; German, 1924; Aus.
trian, $7.23: Showing the American
/ people, if not the worst governed PEG.
: pie to be, at least, the severest taxed
people among any of the civilized ma.
+ tions Of the earth. Everything waf
: taxed but government bonds which
were held by the rich and the rich grew
richer and the poor poorer under sncE
J legislation which produced nationa
and individual decentralization. Al
; angel without money was not thought
, as much of as devil with bag full
of greenbacks." So far as wrongs
j growing out of fraudulent republican
: legislation can be redressed by Presi
! dent Cleveland's administration, be.
lieve they will be. We shall see.
, hope every planter in Louisiana will
plant all the corn, cotton, rice, tobacco
t and potatoes he can well cultivate anc
take good care of and give no heed tt
the cry of over production" A coun-
try occupying the fairest and riches
} side Of the globe, lying through whole
temperate zone, in fact the surloir
] of the world, with tenth of her PEG