St. Landry democrat., 1891-02-21
Some Blight Ideas Discussed.


GRAFT and Courier to publish the ia,
sales for a very small sum-" the Cla.
rlon, which is very badly ratified, for il
expected to publish these sales for a
rery considerable sum, says:
This is bright idea. 1t is singular
it never occurred to them before, or
that they did not put it in practice last
year, the year before, and the year be-
fore that. How much then might have
been saved to the suffering delinquent
tax payers. Is it too late to refund now
what was charged too much for adver-
tising tax sales in those years gone by 2
! This idea might be extended.
Why, yes, it might be extended
back to the time of the Kellogg and
Warmoth regimes, for instance, when
there was an official journal here, and
neither town nor parish printing nor
tax sales nor any judicial advertiser
ments whatever We're given out to the
lowest bidder, but all had to be publish
ed in this official journal-not for q
"very small sum or free of CHARGE"
but for very considerable sums-tax
sales, for instance, costing as high as
twelve dollars apiece. Does the Clarion
know anything about this official jour
nal and this system of legalized robbery
which tlourished under the aforesaid
regimes, whose record stinks in the DOS
trils of our people up to this day? And
it this refundiug business was EXTEND
ed," would not the Clarion be called |
upon to plank down very considerable
sum?
AS to refunding "wllat was charged |
too much y" last year, the year before,
and the year before that the Clarion
knows that one dollar for sales of NOV
ables and two dollars for sales of i'm
novables is considerably less than legal
rates-(and present legal rates are but
title more than half as high as those
lnder which, by some hocus- pocus, DUR
ng the delectable regimes referred to, the
;ost of advertising tax sales was run up
o S12.00)-hence, there is nothing to re-
und. But should the Clarion insist
hat there is, we submit that it should
rst call upon the President of the Cla-
ion Publishing Co., who is carrying
round some of those funds to-day and |
tho accounted to US this very week for
objections on account of those sales in
le following proportion, viz: to the
ublisher of the Courier, one quarter; d
, the publisher Of the DEMOCRAT, one [
larter; to the President of the St. ,
andry Clarion Publishing Co., one hall.
As is the case with the lottery ques- d
Oh, the Clarion Systematically at o
mpts to muddle this printing question,
II, in both cases, upon the hOodWink-
g of the people depends the success s.
its schemes. 1t is now engaged in !!
g evident effort to induce the Sheriff y,
give it the tax sales to publish and to d
y it a much larger sum than we have )
tered to accept for the work. If the ~ u.
eritf can he misled into following its f.
vice, that is his business. and he must fl
tile that matter with the taxpayers Il!
10 will be forced to pay one, two or hi
're dollars as printers costs instead be
3 or 10 cents, as the case may be. or
le Clarion knows full well that it is Ia Ia
t our "object to make the tax collec- O,
unpopular with delinquent tax pay pc
y" and that this kind of talk is mere tir
ige; besides, if it was, lie can easily W W
feat it by giving the tax sales to the or or
srion at 5 and 10 cents-or, if that di
lcern already has all the cheap print &c 5
on hand that it cares for, be can "a,
d them to US or to the Courier office, de
"the suffering delinquent tax pay SIP
!" will not be gouged on the same or or'
that WORKED 30 hlceIy under war grt
bh and kelogg-and he will not lose cal
iota Of his popularity on that ac- pr
Mt.