St. Landry democrat., 1891-06-27
News Items.


Advertisements will be issued shortly
for bids on the new public bulldogs at
Alexandria and Baton Rouge.
A runaway team at West End fatally
injured a man and a~wOman on We'd
nesday night, and wounded many
others.
It buying a lottery ticket and going
on abOut your business with the hope
of gaining fortune is gambling, then
we would much prefer to gamble that
way than to sit down at cards to win
the hardearned dollars of a bosom
friend. There are legalized evils toll
Grated 10y our moral anti-lOtteryites "
which pay little OF no revenue into the
State, compared with which the Louisi-
ana Lottery is as pure as the driven
snow. Vernon Jackson Parish) Pa
triot.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The State
Board of Health is no longer graccd
by the presence of the two members
who got in the slaughterhouse soup.
One of them found the pressure of pub
lie opinion SO strong that his firm went
into liquidati ation, and he was the least
guilty of the: two. But the other
what has become of him i? Oh, he is
New Orleans, buying and selling for the
brethren till the whitewasil brush gets
in its work and washes him as white
as snow. The thunder never strikes
in high Alliance circles. 1t is bomb
proof on scandals.
The New York Herald prints letters
from the officers of the Farmers Ali
ance in nearly all the States, showing
tho ctropptk @ of tIo nr1o,, md iko ,,oi;t;
cal plans and purposes. The letter
from Secretary Mcfarland, of the Lou
isiana Alliance, is of very little inter-
est, except that it gives the member
ship in the State at 10000 instead of
10000, as claimed by the leaders. In
politics he says that some of the lead
ing members favor an Independent
move,.b but the matter will he held in
allegiance, "until such time as the Su-
preme Council may decide, after dis
cussing the matter, what is best for the
order to dO.H
"Does sheep raising pay on small
scale where land is highY" We desire
to be plainly understood on this ques-
ton when we say that sheep raising
will pay as we'll if not better than any
other kind Of farm stock on high priced
lands or loW,.on small or large scale.
1t is the small crops which yield the
greater profits, for the reason perhaps
that they are better cared for. It is tho
uniform testimony of our breeders
who keep a. few sheep. that they pay
stock. It will be the question some
dav .."Can we afford to be without
sheep on our high priced land?"-Ex-
change.
We see from the McMinnville Tenn
Standard that new aud cOnmenda-
Bile farmers benefit order has been
started in Warren county. The Stand
ard says it bas but two members as
yet, Mr.. r. H., Mason, who is. the origi-
nator and president, and Mr.. William
Tennessee, high private and general
It's platform of principles
is brief and to the point, to wit: work
hard ten hours a day, three hundred
days in a year, never coming to town
without bringing something to sell, and
never buy anything without paying
for'it.' The order is free to everybody,
holds no secret meetings and the char
ter: members guarantee that every
farmer who joins and lives up to its
principles will find himself in easy
az VsO VHo'oL tCh years..
Tile New Delta argues for the space
Of half a column to show that the pro-
posed recharter of the lottery company
will establish a monopoly, but it neg
ects to refer to that clause of the reve-
nue. amendment which provides that
anybody can obtain a lottery charter /
by complying with the conditions |
which are imposed on Mr.. Morris and |
his friends. This rule is. applied to all
licensed business in the State. and in
al other States, for that matter, and
here is no monopoly established by
aw. The terms are somewhat difficult, |
It is true, but then it must be remem-
Dered that very few lines of business
ian inspire public confidence, in their
ability to- pay 81 f,250,0OO a year, or pay
II after the preliminaries for license
Ire arranged.-B. r. Advocate. /