The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1895-03-08
A Gray Horse OF Another Color.

OF the Observation-Disclosures OF South
Louisiana, and replaced said bOun-
~ with a tariff which does said
merchant-planters no good, but
pours a cool s4O,OOO,OOO into the
lap of Havemyer and his sugar
trust, and makes We consumers of
sugar sweat more than the said
bounty did-when this rather I'M
expected step towards "tariff re-
form" had been stepped, the said
merchant-planters sent up a wall
to Congress that shook the walls
of Jericho.
These walls availing naught, the
said merchant-planters appealed to
their business friends-men with
whom they traded, and perhaps
owed bills, and these men straight
way ordered their congressman to
vote for said bounty.
And it came to pass that the
said bounty passed, and the said
merchant-planters can now pass,
and their creditors will always
pass.
But our said Democratic Con-
gress repealed law which they
had not passed, and they did not
wait for the regular session to re
peal said law.
And this law which they repeal
ell cut off our money supply which
was already much too scarce. And
this contraction of the money made
prices lower and dollars much
harder for farmers-producers all
over the country, to get.
So a planter-not a merchant
planter, nor even sugar-planter-
but a real farmer, living not far
from this town, after selling his
cotton and finding that it did not
pay the expenses of making it, and
said farmer knowing that said con-
traction OF the currency, brought
about Ivy sand Democratic Congress
had wrongfully chiselled him out
of the value of his c0ttOn-Or Ia
bor-said farmer appealed to said
Democratic Congress for help-for
that which had been taken from
him and millions of his fellows in
the cotton and wheat fields all over
the country.
This appeal awaiting naught,
said farmer awaited developments.
About January LIST, his commission
merchant sent said farmer dun
for present and past obligations.
Then said farmer wrote said CON-
mission merchant long letter ex-
planning the situation and showing
how his inability to meet his debts
was due entirely to the actions of
said Democratic Congress, and
said farmer urged said merchant to
help him to urge Congress for relief
and to wait for his bills until said
relief could be had by getting in a
real, genuine Democratic Congress.
But, said commission merchant,
unlike those merchant friends of
the sugar planter-merchants, just
wrote back to said farmer that his
was entirely unsatis
factory, and that unless the money
was forthcoming the fur would
fly.
Thus you see how a gray horse
can be of another color.
But then you see, it wouldn't be
that way if We had real, genuine
Democratic Congress-
it took rs 80 years to give the
dear old Democratic party a chance
to save us, but instead Of saving
as it lost itself, aud is now beg
ging for a chance to redeem itself
newspapers have already started
the cry.
In all human probability it will
take as 80 years to again succeed
in fooling the people with the Dem
ocratic party, so if our salvation
depends upon it, most of us will
have to exercise more sublime
faith than had st. Paul, when we
aav will, him s(I know that uHv Re-