The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-12-31
Being Heard From.

10 say ABOUT Tic pafiuS aHu VIII
ling down of the printers bills IN
the matter Of the proposed coirstitu-
tional amendments by Auditor
Herad, we declare the course pnr-
sued by the Auditor as illegal, un-
just and false economy to say the
least of it.. We now append the
views of some of our eoufreres on
1 the same subject, and there are
more to be heard from:
The law upon which Auditor
/ Heard relies is an act bearing upon
the State printing, and particularly
the journals of the general assembly.
Subsequent revenue acts repeal that
law so far as :tapplies to tax sales
advertisements.
We prepared and asked the char
man on resolutions to offer it III re-
gard to the ruling of the Auditor
upon the price for publishing pro-
posed amendments and other work.
1t called for committee TO be APP
pointed whose duty it was to in
vestigate and report at the next
meeting. That was before the tax
sales issue came up. Mr.. Heard
not only scaled the tax sales adver-
Using but the amendments. We
contended and still contend that the
law be quotes applies to the State
printing and particularly to the
journals of the general assembly by
the State official journal.
i Has the State the constitutional
right to demand services at less
} compensation than individuals are
required to pay? So We take it for
granted if the law really applies
which we deny-that it would be
unconstitutional and null and void.
Beacon News.
. Mr.. w. w. Heard, the Auditor
: of the State, shortly after being in
Quoted into office. thought he would
make a State reputation as an econo-
mlzer, and looked around to see
, where he could begin. After care
fully scrutinizing the horizon, he
must have come to the conclusion
that the country editors are the
plutocrats of the State million
D aires whose rapid increase of wealth
t is dangerous to civilization-so he
: concluded to clip their claws and
8 hunted up an old law applicable tc
. the State official organ published al
$ Baton Rouge, and used it as if Il
was the law governing all the news
. papers published IN the State will
q regard to the amount to be charged
] the State for advertisements.
Some months ago Mr.. Heard Gu
down legal printing bill of Tow
s s Talk from $4,000 s28.62, and W,
will always remem Der him for tina
transaction, not specially for thu
amount lost, bnt for his llttlenes
IN taking from Democratic jour
? nal that which lawfully and justl,
belonged to it.
The Natchitoches Enterprise pub
lished the tax list of Natchitoche
: parish and made the legal charge, :
i" that is 81 per square for first insei
> ton and SO cents for each subse
: quent insertion, Mr.. Heard refuse,
to pay the bill stating that th
charge should have been 20 cent
. per square for the first insertion
= Md Poets for each subsequent in
: sertion. The editor of the Ertei
prise sued the Sheriff of Natchitocn
es for the legal rate he had charged
: and the case was tried before Judg
Andrews, of this parish, who decd
ed In favor Of the Enterprise.
: Mr.. Heard seems to be a Demo
: cratic Statesman (?) who believes i
starving out Democratic journals
u One of those kind who never thin
: of the sspress' until they need
: very much--that is, few month
: before each election. The newspa
: pers of Louisiana should remembe
II their friends-and their enemies. :
l. Town Talk.
e We take the foregoing wall fror
= Town Talk, of Alexandria, and !
states the exact truth about Mr.
8 Heard, who has grown just shad
r-ttoo big for his s'small clothes.
y We do not sympathize with Tow
Il Talk and the Enterprise, however
= because when the Telegraph Bulle
4 tin and numerous other newspaper
throughout the state were dose'
with the same emetic few month
i ago, not word of protest was hear
from those kicking journals. w
: took our medicine then, let Tow
;. Talk and others take theirs now.
But Mr.. Heard, of Union, add
3 nothing to his stature as an officia
y by the villainous robbery he persist
e in perpetrating on the fress of tn
d state. Yes, Mr.. Heard will be re
e membered. Telegraph-Bulletin.
1t In accord with our article else
where on public printing, we publis
the following from Town Talk, on