The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-08-12
n.etter From Canton.
CANTON, La, Aug. /, 1892.

CANTON La, Aug. i, 1877.
EpToR Echo while have few
moments Of leisure and believing that
few words from this part of the woods
would be of some interest to your many
readers 1 will endeavor to give you the
news as brief as can.
Crops are generally good. especially
corn, rice, sugar cane and sweet pota-
toes Cotton is not so good, there
being too much rain for cotton to grow
extra we'll; however, very good cotton
crop is anticipated notwithstanding the
heavy rains and great reduction in the
acreage of cotton this year.
We have church Ist, 3rd, and 4th,
Sundays of each month at three differnt
churches: Primitive and Missionary
Baptist and Methodist. We have two
schools with good average attendance,
both being private. We have no pub.
lie schools Just now, but trust we Will
be able TO get q public school in the
near future, as we are certainly entitled
to q school now.
While we are not politician and are
not DESTROYS of entering into any politi
cal argument or conversation, we will
Just mention, as o word TO the wise is
sufficient, the way in which some peo-
pie have been treated as regards their
taxes. To our knowledge some Of our
neighborB who promptly paid their
taxes annually, by carelessness lost
their receipts, therefore, were forced to
pay their taxes over, together with a
pretty heavy cost by being so timid as to
let deputy tax collector, with a cheek
on him, say, ''Since we've got in Office
we are going to make 'em pay their
take" -scaring them out Of their
money. Admitting that people should
pay their taxes when they become due,
yet some fail, and some pay up prompt.
", then where is the tax collector, and
what is he doing?- the man who said,
''Since we've got in Office we are going
to make 'em pay their taxes?" AS the
same tax collector has not been in the
Office for the last six or seven years be
don't collect the taxes due by every
man in the parish promptly every year,
as the law directs, and give the people
credit on his books so that he will be
able to know who has paid and who hai
not paid their taxes. Is ii strange that
some fail, as they certainly will, when
the taxes are collected like they have
been for the last four years ?
Think for one moment. Three months
school at intervals and no public i'm
provements, and taxes assessed to tbs
amount of six million dollars for 1892
The laboring class Of people will bt
slaves to monopoly so long as they
allow themselves to be humbuged BY
shrewd politicians. Put a man in Ofiiet
and when be gets SO careless in BIZ
official capacity as not to comply will
the law, put DDOther man in his place
that will. II know anything, the vii
of the majority Of the people, who com
pose the government, should be com
piled with. A man who is put in Offict
by the people, and paid by the people
to perform the duties pertaining to BIZ
office, and is the servant and not th'
ruler of the people, should not b.
allowed to remain in his Office when b.
runs it in his own way and in bis inter
est politically, and imagines he is thu
sovereign ruler Of the people and no
their paid servant. Respectfully
SORIBEER.