The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-06-30

distance we know not where it will
fail. 1t therefore behoOves all the
friends "f rhelr country to be circum-
srect, Use, firm and united.
TACTICS OF DELAY.
Attakapas Vindlcator: The present
session "i the Legislature will be pc
riod of past history in few weeks,
ana though many bills looking to the
reformation of the ballot have been
introduced from which the committee
III charge could select the best one.
but. up to date. not a single one has
been reported for action. The fact of
the matter is, from all appearances,
the Legislature. nor the powers that be
do not want any change in the suffrage
laws. giving the people right to hon
estly express Il preference for those
whom they wish to serve them and
the pni'lic, and il heavy movement is
being secretly DEVELOPED there to de
feat Whatever comes up looking to the
bettermel.t of the ballot. No open
hostility is displayed against the
movement. possibly because the peo-
pie everywhere have delegated their
representatives to give them some
change in the laws of suffrage looking
to the purity Of the ballot box.
POLITICAL POWER OF BARROOMS.
Morgan City Prohibitionist What
is the cause of the municipal cor.np-
tlon in all of the large cities of the
land Why is it that the governments
of great cities are hothouses of bribery,
frand, oppression. blackmail, extortion
and perjury We can find certain
connections. which, whether cause or
effect, or both, are the invanable ac-
compartment of city governments.
One. .of these is the saloon. Every
city government in the United States
is hand in glove with the saloons. In
prohibition states the difficulties Of en-
forcement are met in the cities. The
keeping Of Sunday law restrictions is
difficult mainly in cities. There Is Il
constant effort being made to have
New Orleans exempted from the pro
visions of the Sunday law. We can
recognize the landmarks Of the saloon
in all this. Whether it is because of
an original and natural affinity be-
tween the saloons aud the officers of
our cities, or whether it is because of
a mutual protection com hinatiOn that
this connection obtains2 is the ques
ton. Certainly the saloon controls
city politics, and with the wisdom, as
we'll as the venom, of the serpent, in
trenches itself in the places of power
and carefully guards these against the
| incumbency of others than its friends.
CARE OF THE STATE LEPERs.
Monroe Daily News: Now it is pro-
| posed by bill introduced in the leg
| islature to pnt the management of
these unfortunates in TIE hands of a
| board Of directors, three of whom are
| to be appointed by the gov ernor, and
| four by the mayor of New Orleans.
That bill should never pass, because
it was Mayor Fitzpatrick who stood by
Beard i'll the past, and would contin
tie to stand by him in the appointment
of his tools, who would make ma
.jority OF the board. 1t is argued, and
very properly, that the Fitzpatrick
ring should have no say in the care of
these unfortunate people. If they
must be put in charge of set of men
who are to see after any hospital in
which they are to be placed. let that
board be free from all dictatiOn by
Fitzpatrick. Get the lepers seclu.
ded home somewhere outside Of New
Orleans. and let them have humane
people about them, so that their few
remaining years of life may be passed
in as much comfort as possible for one
in their terrible condition. 1t is an
astonishing thing that the people OF
New Orleans, among whom these peo-
pie are, have not kept up the agita-
ton caused by the exposure of two
years ago, until public sentiment had
compelled the authorities to at least
treat them as human beings. Let no
bill pass the legislature relative to
them by which Jonn Fitzpatrick OF
DR.. Beard may have hand In any
thing relating to their care.
THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS HOME
Louisiana Sugar Bowl: Designing
persons have secured many publica-
tion about the conduct of the Soldiers
Home of Louisiana, which are false
from beginning to end, and retlec.
ton upon the journals which received
such matters for publication without
first investigating the same. The
home board Of directors are the off
GERS of the two benevolent assocla
tions, Army of Northern Virginia and
| Army OF Tennessee They serve
without pay, giving much of theil
valuable time for the good of theil
former fellow soldiers. They employ
a superintendent, who acts wholly un-
/ der their instructions and to see tha