The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1900-12-15

voters of West lelieiana parish, Mcssrs.
Butler, Bowman, folkes and Barrow seek
to conyincethe people, tllatthe abolition
Of the whiskey trade in tho parish will
cost the parish some two orthree thous-
and dollars in loss of the revenues derived
from licenses and taxes levied on the
,whiskey business, Thcss gentlemen are
great jugglers with facts and figures Lots
see how actual figures and I IT estimates
work. AlleSpelgcs ofthe parish, inelud-
ing road tax, school fund Of Q) one and \
half mills, treasurer and clerk of police
jnry's salary, pay of police jurors, $500 to
town OF s.. francisyille and also the sal
AIRY of the sleritfof Sl,000,G0, but with,
all other criminal expenses excluded,
amount to S., la4. 25; all criminal expenses
(exclpding the sherlfl's salary which we
have pnt in the general fund above) tire
$3,3e732 making a total of $8,5h1.57,
which sum deducted from$l0, 1858 which
is the total revenue for this year, leaves
~, 1881 which amount will finally pay
the quarantine debt, so that next year OF
1901 under prohibition, with no quaran-
tire debt and with u loss $4,000 in Ango
Ia plantation and also a loss of $2,400 90
llom licenses and taxes on the whiskey
business (and not 5000 90 as MeSSrs.
Butler Il Co. state) we will have 81, 9q5.-
50 to pay expenses. Now, Messrs. Butler
& Co. admit chat crime will probably be
reduced one half by prohibition, then
divide the S3,39732 (whichs our
criminal expense this YEAR, in llalf, and
you will have II ,698.66 rs our criminal
expense next year under prohibition, to
this add S5,l5i,25 which is onr general
expense fund including sheriil's salary,
and you will have a 0tal.expens6 to the
parish, in tlle year 1901 under prohibition;
of $6,S53.91. To pay this you will
have us shown above 1885, IS. in
other words, tho parish after paying
all expenses will have on hand 81, 142.-
AZ surplus. does that look like increased
taxation
They say "the moral side of the quos.
ton is lett to common serSe and lndivid-
ual conscience and then they proceed
to scduce and rclvert your conscience by
figures which to say the least they have
been grossly careless in obtaining, They
fnil to take into account tie benefts Il at
would accrue to tho people through nb-
sence Of the tlcmoralzing influence Of tho
iiqu0r business, the increased valuation
of property which w0nld inevitably in
crease the revenues Of the parish, the de-
crease of crime, and all general consider
ations Of public welfare or simply bal
ancc all these advantages with the decla
ration that the parish will lose 1000 or
$1,000 which we prove above is q wholly
false conclusion. BnS were this true.
how long would it take for this deficit to
be made good if tho money ROW wasted
in the purchase of whiskey was rut in
substantial values in the parishf Is it an
exaggeratOn to say that some $25, 600 90
annually is spelt, wei mag say, wasted in
buying something that is profitable tO
no one but be SelIer- -..
suppose tlis money were not thrown
away. suppose the Thousand tiemoralizing
effects of llle whiSkey LsNssfHesS werenRl-
lifted, will any sensible person claim thai
there would not be such I'LL increase OF
values in the parrish thai with even re-
duccd assessMeiis w0am soon more than
make up The piiifnl deiieit Of S3,MDO0.
But what patriptic citizen VIII hieaSnEe
the hmeGts to be derived fream the ab0-
liti0n Of the whiskey hnsiAcss eS sreh q
scale. Who will put y value IL dnhaarA
and ctn1s OIL tie lives anal characters OF
the rising generationS VIII gentlemen
who are in affllIeucG themselves, ignore
the mise y of Ihe poverty and want fA"t
is the To- of their less fortunate fellow
citizens whose substance . wasted TO I'LL
the vertlCwing Golfers Of the wFs6eS thd
beer trusth Of the country. ~ "
Before " hmitting this sNlr ttmGlappcaI
we will ans wer the challenges OF the gen
tlelncn rcte cred to, t"lo explain the enor.
nous amou IT. of crime that RS u0w G)Ml.
mittcd an has been committed during
recent years in the prohibition PARISHES oI
the easterp portion OF the state" This
We take it, is all insinmtinn that NcS'
Felicianians will. because they eah1
yet whisEey 10 drink, kill and waylay
each other as his undoubtedly boon don'
in the portion 0Etho state referred t."
but ne don't thi1k West Felieianians are
that thirsty. and the reason they WONT
do SO is because t,,ey are men OF the
pnrext type of Sont aern gentlemen a
hirhcr grade than tlloae who have black
oncl the annals of the eastern part o.
the state.
People Of West F'elician't with the
ahoge facts before you, join US, We beg
yan, in presenting on next Tue Wny;fthc
k;srpicst and purest Christmas and
Nev Years proSent-a dry parish--to Oul
gra,lA old parish,
S. Nee. Lawrason.
l.. =. Kilbourne,
'- w. II. Percy,
II. Lotion.