St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-04
Chataignier.
June 29th, 189

June ~JLD, lCV1.
We have had no rain since last 1hurs-
day week, ten days past, and the thcr-
mometer registers "a IN the siiade
every day at 2 o'clock. There was an
abundant shower E miles below here
last Monday night.
Our farmers have got in all their cot
ton and lice, which is up, a good stand,
and calling for more RAIN.
| suppose that by this time, MI.
Editor, we can consider ourselves AS
confidential friends, SO to speak. NO"
I wish to communicate Il little matter
to YOU. strictly private, you KNOW.
Twill premise 10y saying that my ia
Their offered his body rs target lor Tie
British, in New Orleans, ana under cen
jackson, in the year 1915. L dld TIE
same to the Federal soldiers IN the Wal
of the rebellion, as some call 1t. My
grand father, my father, and myself
have been paying taxes INTO Tue STATE
treasury every year consecutiVeiy, 10Y
more than 80 years, and we have never
cost the State one cent. Now thty zen
me that all this tax money Il neeued 10
protect me III my just rights. nope
tilat they tell the truth.
suppose that you think that my pre-
misses are rather extensive; but nave
patience, anu i VIA hNN'S''"
milk in the cOcOalint.
In conversation with an honest and
talented friend the other day, he re-
marked, that any lottery agent who
~yeut around the country Offering DIl-
hes. deserved to be swung up to tie
first limb; as he failed to state what
ought to he done with those who accept
ed lottery money as brides, | was sur
urised, for / always looked upon the
accepter of Il bride as more criminal
than the giver.
was puzzled, | reflected. ] became
more and more puzzled, until finally |
fell into such ii labyrinth of doubts aud
nerplexities that the clue OF Iheseus
rould not have eXtricated me, until L
thought of mass meeting, that great
srgis of free politics where we can cali
III au overwhelming majority that favor
our views. | made the call, and my
office was filed ON the appointed day
l,y respected but silent statesmen, from
Cicero down to Thomas Jefferson, with
his parliamentary manual ID his hahd'
was chosen president by UNANIMOUS
but silent consent, and was stralSht-
,yav voted committee OF one to draw
m set of resolutions; the committee
returned in due time with the follow
ing:
whereas, the lottery is gambling institution
md therefore immoral; and Is also IL mohopo-
Iy, and therefore hurtful to Tree govern
anent; .,,o ,-;.,or.
And whereas, all tie officers Of the NICHOLS
rasinn ale violently opposed to the lottery;
and Whereas many honest voters beleVc tlat
those same officers are candidates Tor re-c4ec
ton, and that they make al TINS a1Ll-iott cry
racket to blind the democracy to their own
faults and shortcomings; and whereas, Caesar
said of his wife, when he divorced 1lnself
from her, that Caesars wife should not only pc
honest, but free from suspicion;
Re it resolved, that We cordially invite Inc
lottery company to withdraw its proposition
sor recharter, and to the present incumbents
in the State administration, that all the anti
lottery men withdraw from the canvass for &c
election.
You ought to have been here, my
friend, to have heard the uprOar; Cl-
cero's hair bristled on his bald head,
and he sprang to the floor to make one
of his q Catalina speeches; but An
thopy's wife had so etfectually Jaboed
Ais tongue with her bOdkin that bis elo-
nnence died still born. Seneca the stole
arose. suppose to make some remarks,
but at a nod from Tiberius be wllted.
Lord Byron seized his grey goose quill
TO write IL satire on the lottery and
Louisiana politics. Thomas Jefferson
remarked that lotteries were quite com
mou in his day, and were not considered
wrong. and that he, himself, the pattern
of statesmen, had been connected with
lotteries: aud as to the monopoly tea-
ture. no government could exist without
monopolies that the present admins
tratiOn could boast OF some admirable
ones, for instance, the Behrlng sea tur
trade; the Sandwich island free sugar,
and above all, the Mckinley tariff.
"As to the I'd clause of your resolution,
calling on the officers OF the present
administration to withdraw from the
field, that is pteposterous. myself
said he, "was reelected many times,
aud the longer that | held office the
more | liked it; in fact, it became quite
a pleasure for me to save the country.
All the blood that you and your father
split for Louisiana would not tatten
mosquito, and all the money that you
have paid the State in taxes does not
give you right to NEEDLE in politics;
let me tell you that you know nothing
about saving States. Once there was
an eccentric man in certain city who
procured hollow cane, and when lie
could get his hands on dog i'll the
streets, lie would very dexterously
catch him by the tail, introduce the
cane into his anatomy, and blow him
M as tight as a drum; then letting the
dog 90, he would turn to the bystanders
aud triumphantly remark: You may
think it an easy matter to blow up a
dog y" [ consider my mass meeting a
failure, and we adjourned to the year
zoos. AGRICOLA.