The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-01-21
STATE PRESS.
Items of Interest and What the
Newspapers Have to Say.

Paul F. Fourchy, prominen
& citizen of New Orleans, died Thurs
day morning at his home l.. tina,
city. Mr.. Fourchy was considered
one Of the best posted men on insur
ance law in the State He was &C
years of age.
Morning Star: The debt of the
diocese when the late Archbish op
Janssens Of sacred memory took
charge, was $500, 900, which before
recognizing its validity, both inter
est and principal were cut down, the
former to 3 per cent and the latter
to $4,000. There remains now
about 100000 still unpaid. The
church property was at that time
invested in ore corporation known
as the Society of the Catholic
church. Since then separate cor
porations have been organized, each
church being a corporate body, the
Archbishop being president, the
Vicar General vice president, the
pastor secretary and treasurer, and
two CD laymen or trustees forming
the corporation.
Shreveport Outlook: Every town
or city in the South should give
Immediate and serious consideration
20 tie matter of erecting cotton
factories, and plans of cooperation
= =
To our mind, therefore, the situa
ton is not dark, if it is properly
and intelligently handled. Organ
ization should be perfected to
reduce the cotton acreage through
out the South, and the movement
for the erection of cotton factories
be awakened and pursued with
ceaseless activity.
The South must get all the money |
that can be gotten out of its cotton.
1t should not persist in the violation |
Of the plainest dictates of economy |
and business principles. 1t must
not only work for better prices for
the raw material, but to earn fifteen
and twenty five cents which foreign
manufa cturers get from every pound
of the staple.
anner-Democrat: The 'white
caps" in the fourth and fifth wards
of East Baton Rouge parish notified
the colored people that they would
have to leave by certain date, but
it seems that the good and law-abid-
ing citizens of these wards are
largely in the majority and are
that the colored people
will receive protection and if any
are to leave it must be the
white caps. This is the way to do it;
anI i; always turns out that it is the
tiff RATS of community who com
prise the white caps and the com
nunity could easily get along with
,ut.
Crowley Signal: The republic of
is not as old as our own,
,ut, nevertheless, i. has several
rood iegisla tive feratures beside that
IF the initiative and referendum.
)ne of the tax measures in vogue
here is calculated to produce an
lonest assessment. 1t provides for ,
proper and honest inventory of q
mans estate after his death, and if
t is found there is an excess beyond
he amount returned to the assessor, I.
he state steps in and claims the
Inference. Were such law in
ogue in this country we would /
ave all kinds Of money to burn. .
Congressman Broussard has writ a
en- the following letter to Hon. r. a
}. Leblanc of Vermilion. Our G
nergetic young representative C
: on right trail and let us e
ope he will succeed. He says: "
Il want the streams of my t
istrict made navigable - the S
.a'casieu Pass, the Teche, the Yer n
,iIion, the Lafourche and the Pla- "
ucn,ine locks-these are the mat a
.rs that have undertaken to carry
, CONCLUSIONS; that railroads may p
OF forever Cypress our farming and q
elements. would il
ather accomplish these than be ii
uvernur of louisiana"