The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-04-30
Result of Bad Government.

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lana State warrants, ordinary, of
1884, was 60 cents; and for State
warrants, ordinary, of 1885, the bid
was 464 cents on the dollar.
The East Feliciana Patriot Dem
ocrat, says:
"The above needs no comment.
Ii speaks for itself. 4 Louisiana
promise TO pay is not worth fifty
cents on the dollar! Where it will
end is perfectly plain. 1t is not
done in the name of Democracy.
By set of political ring-masters
and tricksters who, while the State
was being brought to its present
disgraceful condition of financial
ruin, passed an amendment through
the Legislature giving our bond
masters $4,000 year for fifteen
years, and when it was voted down
by the people, this same set of wor-
thies, by some hocus pocus, counted
the amendment in. If there are
any two things our present State
government does understand, it is
leyees and finances
The Clinton Southern Waterman
also states:
cit is showing we'll calculated
to make the cheeks of every Louis
ianian tingle with shame! 1t is a
showing so alarming as to cause
every rejecting friend of this COM
monwealth-which should be Dung,
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 with
| cred in her prime'-to doubt wheth-
er her independent autonomy can
be or ought to be maintained, ex-
cept by expulsion of the bunglers.
1t furnishes, moreover, when the
favorable and plethoric conditions
under which the Wiltz regime com
menced its reign are gravely consid-
cred, the most convincing demon
stration that we are not only now in
a moribund state, but that we are
destined speedily to be relegated
back to the humiliation which we
inherited as legacy from that hon.
est Iago, VIM. Pitt Kellogg, when
ordinary State warrants were down
to ten cents on the dollar, ont of
which slough of humiliation the
| Nichols Administration lifted US,
by galvanizing the old delinquent
tax rolls of the four years of Kel-
logg's maladministration. It is pa
tent that expedient drove the dis
honored Kellogg warrants up to 90
cents on the dollar, and after they
were all extinguished by full pay
ment, left to the succeeding admin
istration 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 present ex-
trayagance assumed the guidance
of the Commonwealth ? If with
that extraordinary source of reve
nue. warrants are down to 461 cents,
where would they be to day without
i it! The answer to these questions
we leave to the plausible Caleb
Balderstones, who as our stewards,
we specially commissioned to cover
up and conceal the nakedness and
restitution of our old rat.eaten cas-
tie. Rat-eaten! Yes, we empha-
size and reiterate the designation
eaten up by the rats of Act 90, and
by transfers of sacred funds to some
other more accessible funds, and by
all sorts of ingenious circumventing
expedients; notably, counting in
Constitutional amendments which
were VIGOROUSLY defeated, and
which have generated around the
State Treasury yariegated and pro-
life broods of gray rats, white rats,
black rats, land pirates, and water