St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1890-11-22
OPELOUsAs LA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
Vernon Patriot.

Vernon Patriot.
| Editor Patriot II am converted
frankly over to the Lottery-and why
| Well here are my reasons and / want
them published in the Patriot.
| received a postal card tonight from
the tax collector of this parish notify
ing me that would be sued in ten
7 days without remittance Of my taxes.
I never thought Of such thing. !
thought by the first of December was
the limit. find 10cents charges too
on the bill and I did think the tax col
lector had to come to all the voting
places and collect the taxes. / didn't
know it took forty-fiye cents to pay the
tax on $22; that is nearly 81 per hun
dred. Sol now declare myself a lot
terry man and want every tax payer
to vote for John Morris's lottery to try
and reduce taxes. / would like to
know how much money will be paid
this year as taxes in this State at 81
per $4,000 worth of property, and
why it is I have to pay ten cents as pst
for writing a postal card. All / haze
to say is Hurrah for John A. Morris &
Co! Come on John with your 81 ,25O,-
GOO, let us be relieved of 50 much
taxes. Yours in dead earnest.
BOB.
The above as communication in
the Vernon Patriot. "Bob" must be a
wag, or very curious patriotic citizen
if he is "in dead earnest" Because
his taxes amount to s" forty-fve cents, /"
and he thinks that too much and be-
cause the tax collector did not go to
his voting place to collect that enorm-
Gus sum, but charged him ten cents
for notification of his delinquency,
he wants every taxpayer to vote for
John Morris's lottery to try and reduce
taxes" 1f"Bob's" taxes of "forty-five
cents" were reduced, how much would
he have to pay? But Mr.. Morris pro-
position does not propose to reduce
taxes he proposed to give the State
certain sum for certain purposes, but
there was no proposition to reduce
taxes. If Mr.. Morris proposed amend
ment were to become law, the crowd
that would get into office with it,
would Easily dispose of the lottery ap-
preparation, of "Bob's" "forty-five
cents" and of everybody else's taxes,
and then not have enough-under them
Bob" would have to pay his "forty-
five cents" as now, unless he got rid OF
his property to avoid it.
But Bob's taxes will not run much
risk of being reduced by the lottery
amendment, even if the amendment
should be submitted to the people, for
it would unquestionably be rejected BY
popular vote-the mass OF the voters do
not hold their patriotism and votes
at the price of a reduction on a tax OF
:sforty-fye cents" The proposed
amendment will not be submitted. In
the face of the hostility of the people OF
tie United States, of the Federal and
tie governments, with the postal
law and the hostile action OF the ex-
press companies TO contend with, MIR.
Morris and his associates would have
no use for lottery charter. He would
now most probably be willing to COM
promise, and be thankful if he were
allowed to finish the term of the pres
ent charter without the opposition
that has been raised against him by
his efforts to get another charter. 1t
he could restore the status quo as it
was before he began his political cam
paign in this State, for renewal Of
the charter, and had back the money
that he has spent in that campaign, in
the light of subsequent events and
present prospects, he would no doubt
be much happier man. than he now
is, and be glad to finish the term of the
present charter and quit. But vault
ing ambition oyerleaps itself; some
men become drunk with success and
commit acts of folly; Napoleon, after
conquering all Europe, braved the snow
and ice fields of Russia, and Waterloo
followed Mr.. Morris is not Napoleon,
but he has had phenomenal success in
corrupting Louisiana politicians and
in making money thereby but in seek
ing new charter, and trying to cor
rupt the majority Of the people of the
State, and thereby outraging the moral
sentiment of the best people OF the
whole United States, he has paved the
way to the lottery's destruction. There
is tide in the affairs of men, even in
evil affairs, that leads to success !; but
the tide ebbs, and when the ebb begins
wisdom would call halt. Mr.. Morris
kind of wisdom enabled him to see
only the flow, and not the ebb; the
ebb-tide. of the lottery has set in, and
it will soon be swept out into the ocean
of the past.
A correspondent of the Vicksburg
Commercial Herald, gives the following
as an unfailing remedy for screw worms !:
"Take any quantity OF alder leaves you
wish. nut them ina strong piece of