The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-02-06
AN APPEAL.

AN APPEAL,
a'arlty Asked to Appease Hunger amp
Stay Suffering.
10 the Charitable aud Generous peo.
pie OF Louisiana:
Il, AS committee appointed recently
~ the advisory committee represent.
ng the drouth stricken parishes of
North Louisiana to solicit, in the name
f the whole people, and from the
charitable and warm hearted people of
'he State to appease the hunger and
tay the suffering OF an afflicted sec.
ion, we, the undersigned beg to make
he following statement OF the condi-
lions and needs OF the stricken people:
81 We recognize chat there is ageneral
lemand from the public, whose charity
ve solicit, to have US tell tho whole
is'tory OF affection, to give full informa-
sion in detail as TO our conditions and
Saseds; and in response to such de-
snands we must admit orr personal in
ability to give it in detail, for the main
reason that it is heaged in and sur
Rounded by extreme difficulties, fore
most of which is the area inc uled,
she district represents fourteen parish
Tss, with extremes in dNtances exceed
ling 100 miles, from Catahoula to Web
I ster. West Carroll on the northeast
/ corner and Vernon on the southwest
ssorhsf Of the State, being large por-
lion OF two Of the leading congress-
sonal districts of Eouisiana, involving
/ "a personal investigation OF tho affairs
and conditions of 100000 people, as
!, will more fully appear by q tabuIation
,4of the population by parishes III IN
Other part Of this sta emont
& While thus recognizing the impor-
j4tance OF telling how many people ere
destitute, and what they will need to
tSgive the even moderate relief, we find
yourselves unable TO supply accurately
lfthese details, and fee! that aftcr all tbs
dgsping wound is SO deep and ugly that
mt is unnece sary, and furthermore, it
Hwould prove so volnminous ns to pre-.
gclude its careful pesussl by tho busy
Smcn of New Orleans, Shreveport,
& Baton Rouge, New Ibo:ia, Donaldson
5,xille and other towns OF the State, or
4 the man OF a1flim engaged in South
4 Louisiana in winding up his years
work, whose generous and quick char
slty We most earnestly solicit.
II In this connection it will bo appro.
& pirate to say that when Gov. Foster
land Auditor Heard met the people and
/ their relief committees at huston, Nov.
9d7 last, there were eleven parishes
whose representations ut that meeting
showed that there were then %, 500
destitute people known to them. Since
that date West Carroll, S!bine, Yer.
/ non, Natchitoches and Red River have
asked for nd in one way or another,
while during these seventy days the
original eleven parishes have increased
their cry fer help, and thus we are
Isonstrained to conclude that at least
10000 people are suffering from the
pangs OF hunger and the need of
clothes to resist the effects OF q severe
cold snap, and that st least 80 per
cent OF these are women and children,
and largely, ind in fact almost ex-
clusiyely, of the white race. For the
information of the public we append
the population by parishes as made up
;irom,the census OF 1890:
80 Dienville 14,1O3, Ca dwell 1914,
Catahouls 12.O02, Claiborne 23,3l2,
jackson 7,453, Lincoln IA, l53, Qua.
ehita 1885. Union 17,3ol. West Car.
aoll 3,7A9, Grant S,270, VIM 1852,
Sabine 9,379, Vernon 5,9O3,sWsbster
$4,000; total 161, 513.
Red River and Natchitochos are
mot included in this, although these
parishes ere. afflicted, and along with
Webster and Claiborne have oeen
helped only to the extent OF cheaper
ing the freight rates on corn. While
the committee canuot tell in each in.
stance what proportion OF this popula-
tion is destitute, there are several lines
Authorization which may be utilized
as basis for conclusions Lincoln
parish, for instance, under thorough
and competent organization, reports
5000 persons desti ute out OF pop.
nlation of ID, 1855. slightly exceeding 40
per cent of her entire population. The
data about Grant may be said to be
conflicting, but it is we'll understood
TO lie fully $500 destitute out OF 1874,
or slightly over 80 per cent OF the
entire people in q >desti ute condition
Caldwell, Catalonia, Union, VIM
and part OF Ouachita orc equally |
afflicted with these parishes, while
claiborne, Webster, Bienv;lle, Sabine
and Vernon are but slightly less, and
on the whole the committed believes it
is no exaggeration to say that the
Average restitution will reach ut least |
20 to rs per cent of the whole people. |
thus showing from 10000 to $4,000
nonnla nop1i mr. mora Or laSa oi1