The Louisiana populist., 1897-10-08

ments upon which their suston-
ance depends
The newspaper from which |
made the above quotation says that
it gets its facts from the United
States Weather Bureau officials,
and that these government officials
declared that they knew nothing Of
the causes but Notwithstanding
the importance Of the facts and
the greater Importance of the caus-
es leading up to them, which this
writer offered an article cXplanato-
ry of such causation he was told
that his article must not contain
more than 500 words
In 500 words ! might have rcit-
Grated the facts stated by the news
paper from which | have quoted,
and left them just where that wri-
ter and the government experts
left them, as unexplainable ''freaks
OF nature" But wishing to show
that the statements made are facts,
and to explain the philosophy of
the phenomena set forth, SO as to
make my communication OF sub
stantial use in modifying the evil
portended, | rejected the PROPOSE
ton with some contempt for the
newspaper which made it, and Of
tered my article for the more lib
eraI and helpful columns in which
it now appears.
And | desire to ''button-hole"
the reader right now and to be-
scech his or her careful attention
to what | shall say, and to ask the
cooperation of all in making an
effort to secure the immediate and
earnest attention Of onr govern
ment to the important matter in
volved. Let US talk it among
friends and neighbors; let US write
it up for the newspapers, and in
sist upon their publication of the
fact that man is, by violating the
laws Of nature Gn drying up the
springs and the streams and burn
ing over the woods), actually dry
ing up the world. And let us not
stop with this, but let us thunder
at the doors of the capitol, and
compel tho attention of the admin
istration and Of Congress.
| | want to assure the reader that
the article from which | have quo:
ted, and the information impaired
therein by the government officials:
contains no revelations for me.
have not in hand the sensation Of
an hour, but Il matter Of fearful
import. For more than third Of
a century have been 4 close ob
server Of that worst class of men
the breakers of the natural law.
They are the worst because mos
destructive to themselves, their fel
,, lows and to posterity. Some o
these ignorantly, others rccklessly
break natures laws, and bring dire
: consequences alike upon them
selves, upon those among whom
they live, and upon those wh'
l come Into the world after them
I their own children as we'll as tn
l children of others.
1t is to this class that the worl'
is indebted for all its calamities
A large subdivision OF it cannot b
made to understand that natnra
Y law must govern politics, sociolo
!, gy and all human institutions of
+ permanent and useful character
These people laugh at the pblIosc
pber who would point ont to ther
: the way of the law, and if they d
J. not put him in the madhouse on
l. of malice they will put him in tn
o poorhouse through neg.ect. Bu
they will vote all day (and if pei
!, mitted all night to place in legis
4 lative and executive positions tn
r buffoons who tickle their vulga
It taste for obscene jokes. Thes
v people make rotten the moral an
political economy Of our country
But it is of another subdlvisio
IT of this class--the offenders again:
d the laws of nature-that | haH
proposed to write. 1t is compose
Of the men who with AK, saw an
torch have long been busy in de-
troying the forests and thus dryln
up the springs, creeks and river
D. and reducing the terrestrial humid
10 ty below the rain point whie
| must result in converting earth il
to a. huge oven, in which all veg
table and animal life shall be bake
by solar heat into one pie; poss
ID bly, for the delegation OF the app
ID tites Of those Plutonian demons
le whose service these people seem
a labor so cheerfully. When Byre
l, wrote 'sMan marks the earth wit
10 r,;n y otc his convention of II