The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-11-03

sufficient regard FOR truth to call
things by their right names; and I
above all let US not assist the bolteTsl
to make their work respectable.
a SCI ZCHXNG Ans WER.
The following able letter appeared
in the Times-Democrat 4 few days
ago. It purports to be an answer
to the ssopen letter" written by Mr..
Mccall to Gov. Foster. It is well
worth reading and we regret not be-
ing able to print it all:
emo power on earth, no party be-
meath the sun, could fasten syst EN-
SO undemocratic, SO unrepublican,
SO unamerican, upon the people of
this country. Think of it, a single
individual, Leon Godchaux, receiv-
ed in single year a crisp government
check for S437, 744,45! For what?
Because he raised a crop for which
he received upon the open markets
of the world at 81 cents approx
imately $766, o52. His individual
gift from the national government
represented in amount 80 rs per
| cent of the entire revenues of the
State of Louisiana from its mills
constitutional tax:
.*You claim it as a matter
of equity. e'He who seeks
equity must do equity"
is a maxim as old as the common
! law itself. I find upon examination,
that upon your sworn statement
! ~
You raised upon it last year 7,555,-
500 pounds of sugar, for which the
government gave you check for
Sxs1,116 II and in addition, your
| product upon the market yielded, at
Z 1-2 cents, s264,453 and about the
same approximate figures main
tanned for the balance of you sugar
planters. The banker at Monte
carlo scarcely realizes higher re-
turns on his investment in the wheel
| of fortune or upon the turn of
card. But let us make another cal
culation Estimating the crop of
the present year upon the basis of
that of last year and it will be
much larger), you leave for seed 20
D.r cent Of the cane of each year.
That you may go out of the bust
ness and not prove false to your
people, your party and. yourself, 1
nronose that the government pur-
chase YOUR entire plantation outfit
at the sworn valuation fixed by
yourself. Then let the government
grind ND this seed cane and sell up
On the market, and it will weld
so6.11.. Add to this the same
rate of bounty which we hope and
Believe it will pay upon your other
crop raised, $37,779, and we have
for your seed cane S1o3,8o2. Now
we propose to make you a present
of the live stock and farm outfit and
turn your plantation back into the
national land department, to be
sold at not less than six bits an acre,
with buildings and improvements
thrown in for lagniappe, the only re-
striction or prohibition being that
the pu1 chaser shall never again
raise another pound of sugar upon
it.
CHOW my good fellow, I know
you have been maltreated by the
Democratic party, but if you accept
the proposition 1 present, all will be
we'll. My surprise is not that you
forwarded your resignation, for as
an honorable man you would resent
the idea of holding goods under
false pretenses, but my surprise and
modification knows no bounds that
one whose past life had been such
as yours, who had made the glori-
Gus fight for the honor of his State
as you did against the corrupt and
corrupting influences of the Lottery
Company, should have given him
self, and his fortune and great abil-
tiles, to such scheme. The lot
terry leaders never SO boldly and
defiantly undertook to control our
elections and our people; it asked
for quarter alone, it plead for life,
and dared not to deliver us bound
hand and foot to our relentless enc
mics. Its bribe> was to be applied
to public charities and necessities.
The bargain you expect for deliver
ing the manacled form of your
precious State to the demons: who in
times past, have plundered her; and
picked and pinched her almost
lifeless carcass for the last scant
morsel of flesh and blood, is for
private gain, for individual benefit,
for hard, personal cash. The logic
of your position is that we have
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