The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-10-08
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tive drill in their respective districts
has had the effect of arOusing the mar
tial spirit of our young men all over
the state, and as consequence new
militia organizations are springing up
on every hand. A further impetus
has been given the cause by the an
nouncement of the governor that uni
forms hand been ordered, payable out
OF the funds set aside by the federal
government for that purpose, and our
boys will hencetOrth be clad in nice
new uniforms with brass buttons.
THE WEAVER FALLAcY.
Baton Rouge Advocate: Oily tongu-
ed demagogues, in many Instances
the paid agents of the Republicans
party, have for months been circulat-
| ing among the unsophlsticated and
more creduIons classes preaching
their heresies and teaching the people
that If Weaver is elected president
money may be had for asking trans
por'a alton on the railroad trains will
be practically free, the laboring man
will be transferred from his present
position and placed upon thrones Of
power, while lakes filled with molas-
ses, whose shores are fringed with
buckwheat cakes and islands of Jer-
sey butter rise here and there above
the surface will be concomitant of
every farm. 1.-The forty y-acres- and a
mule" promises of the reconstruction
era pale into lnslgniticance beside the
glowing pictures of prosperity promis-
ed by the average populist orator to
those who support Weaver.
THE TENSAS BASIN LEyEEs,
Riehland Beacon News: The Arkan-
sas river should be leveed to the Mis-
slsslppl and then continued down to
the s>ate line by the Tensas BASIN
levee board and by the assistance Of
the United States government. For
the first time the general government
has shown a disposition to help US.
Now it behooves our levee board to
put every available dollar where it
will do the most good, and this is in
the state of Arkansas, either on the
BG lf cut off or the Mississippi front.
1t is fact known to all well-informed
people of this section, that leyees
below the state line will only protect
local interest and damage other por-
tlons OF the territory just in propor-
ton to the reclamation. All the water
that is permitted to come into the
Tensas basin is bound to go down in
to the Catahoula basin. Ii may be di-
verted from Morehouse or Ouachita
parishes, but it will then overflow the
country below in IL larger proportion.
TARIFF ON SUGAR.
Plaqnemines Protector: The Dem
ocratic theory of duties is strictly for
revenue, because every duty is a tax
which the people who use or consume
the article on which the duty is plac-
ed pay. Incidental to raising public
revenues, then. tie Democratic theory
favors such adjustment of duties is
Will protect the domestic producer or
manufacturer justly, and cheaper the
cost of all articles of indispensable
family use. Under this theory the
Democratic party kept the duty on
sugar, because the vast proportion of
all sugars consumed Gy the people of
| the United States is imported. Tie
duty, therefore, raised an immense
| government revenue, which did not
place the price beyond the means of
the poorest man and which enabled
the government to put on the free list.
or to subject to very light duties, all
articles of ordinary domestic use
which the poor man is bound to have,
aud thus to cheaper the price of all
such articles and at the same time, if
protected by fair and reasonable du-
ties, the farmers who raise sugar.
4 LUkEWARM DEMOCRACY
Baton Rouge Truth: The Democra-
cy of East Baton Rouge seem to have
crawled into their holes now that the
state and parish Offices have been dis
tributed. We hear no more of the
moral reform Democrats nor OF the all
wool and yard wide patriots who were
SO loud mothed in their protestations
of loyalty to the party few months
ago. We scarcely like to assert that
these patriotic bosses take far more in
tereSt in th- success Of parochial
ticket or the capture of appointive po-
sitions than they do in rational af-
fairs, and yet a campaign is on III
which Il chief magistrate of the nation
and IL congressman of this district,
either Of which are of far greater i'm
portance than all the petty local offices
combined. are to be elected, and not
the slightest effort has been made to
canvass the parish. 1t seems to Truth
that public meetings would now be in
order, if for no other purpose than to
prove the good people of the state
that the patriotism of the sons of East
Baton Rouge is more noble and far
reaching than simply to secure Office
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