St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-14
More Money Wanted,

II l. lie anus are all III favor OF DuUll
+ education, but they insist that the MOI
u ey come from the people and not from
= great gambling corporation. The
l. propose to kill the lottery dead and i
J, a few years have the best system {
. public education in the South, and do
u with honest money.
# We are gradually getting there.
Z The plain English of this is: w
e admit that we have poor school
: and not many of them, and but fe,
school houses; we must have more an
$ better schools and we must build som
school houses, or the burning reproacl
resting upon the State will be empha
sized and intensified and it's people vii
continue to retrOgrade and sink deepe
and deeper into the dark depths of jig
norance and illiteracy. But, although
we take all the whisky money we car
get, we don't want any lottery money
and we propose to tax the people anC
get honest money"
Well, now, how about the levees A
large sum is needed for their mante-
|
money won't you be compelled to tax
the people again? And the Charity
Hospital, when it will be deprived of
the $4,000 per annum that it now re-
ceives from the lottery; and the asy-
lums and other public institutions whose
sphere of usefulness should be enlarged
if we would rid ourselves Of the re-
! proacl of not taking proper care of our
unfortunate classes-will they not need
large sums for their supports If you
decline to accept lottery money for
these humane and truly charitable and
high moral purposes, you must tax the
people yet again, must you not? OF
course you must.
This is view of the case that many
of our people who are disposed to look
upon the revenue amendment with dis
favor have been taught to ignore alto
gether. The ants, from Senator White
down to the most ignorant ward bum
mer, have persistently asserted that
everything was lovely aud the goose
hung highs" that the States financial con-
dition was excellent; the schools good
the asylums all they should be; and
that the levees would be built by the
general government. Now, however,
the truth is becoming known-it cannot
be hidden for ever, for
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
The eternal years of God are Eers.'
And what all along has been plain to
every well informed person, the ants,
yielding to the evidences ap-
parent to every ones senses, are being
compelled to admit-what
they can no longer deny, viz: that more
money must be had to carry on the gov
We would direct to this aspect of the
case the special attention of our farmer
friends-particularly those who have
Joined the Alliance, that worthy order
which was established to promote their
best interests, but which has been trans
formed by the politicians who have
sormed themselves into it into an anti
ottery recruiting bureau, through whose
fundamentally they hope to ride into
we would whisper into
heir ears a word of admonitioD: If
he revenue amendment is defeated,
'ou, not the lottery, will be called upon
. provide the additional sums which
re so badly needed; you aciU be taxed
or them, and, like the unfortunate
wellers in the overtiowed districts to-
ay, you will be taxed heartily.
Another word: 1t has no doubt not
scaped your notice that the anti-lot-
cry press and politicians are industri-
usly and assiduously engaged, in sea-
on and out of season, in flattering, ca q
bling and "patting you on the back r
hey know that without your assistance !
heir selfish schemes will miscarry
ence their newborn zeal in your be-
alf, their deep interest in and their
llsome adulation Of you. But you !;
now, or ought to know-and this is
ood time to remember it-that Tout il
atteur Wit aux depens de celui qui l'e- !,
1ute." =