The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-21
THE MONEY SPENT.
A YEAR OF KELLOGG, NICHOLS
AND OF FOSTER-HEARD.
The Never firing and Untiring Feeders
at the Public Crib-Harlequin
Makes Comparisons.

"Tittlebat Titmouse is my name,
Patronasia is my nation,
Washington is my dwelling-place,
And Patronage is my salvation"
|Jokespeare in "Five Millions Year "
Kelloggs rapscallion legislature spent
in its last year a million and half
dollars in running the State. G 49,
That was in 1876.
The good old Nichols legislature
spent in its outgoing year about two
million dollars.
That was in 1890.
Then came the epoch of Reform, Good
Government and Rebellion against any
central influence dominating politics
like the Lottery; and this began to cost
money.
The last legislature of the Foster
Heard dynasty spent in its right royal
running of the old Pelican State the
snug sum Of three and half million
dollars
That was in 1902.
One year Of Kellogg 81, ,564.34o.45.
One year Of Nichols sI,o3I,284.7I.
One year Of Foster-Heard $342I,-
5II.z7.
The sad conviction is forced upon one
that the day of KeIloggian was glitter
ing, not golden, and that husks were
sometimes in his breakfast food; but
that the day Of the Fcster-Hear Office
creator, or job-nuitiplier, is made gIo-
| rious BY an aurora borealis, conuco-
|piad, Of taxes, and that his Lucullusian
palate is gorged with bate-de-foie-gros
salaries and gilded levee bond deals
and sWamp-land rake-offs on the half
she'll
Tbs jolly old Pelican, how she feeds
'ern
The great seal Of State shows her
passing around minnows to the nest.
lings, but the nestiings who get in ever,
four years now get whales and sea.
serpents on toast, for the feeding oi
which. egad. cid Mother Pelican can nc
longer be pictured as using her unas.
sisted and matron1y bill:
She needs derrick and steam-hoist
!. for that work!
The Kelloggian must have beer
trained in the school Of arms where thu
favored tactics are the frontal attack
| the oster-Heardian, in that where til,
flank movement obtains.
In the one school, it was robbery, foi
the benefit Of the robbers; in the pres
ent, it is a system of assessment raising
and accumulation of taxes, for distribu
ton as patronage, for the benefit of til.
party -heelers and for the maintenance,
of corps of trained handlers of e1ec
fions.
We had to provide rations and sWas
| for the Kelloggian generals and colo
I Inels, but the Foster -Heardian regiment
every private must be billeted, quar-
Itered, curled and petted.
Il is the difference between the en-
Idenic and the epidemic.
1t is not to be thought that the twt
millions which are spent annually by al
administration in 1909 more than b.
administration in 1876, all go int
Istea1nlgs.
By no means.
| But the point is this: That useles
salaries, paid by SET of legislative poll
iticians to set of administrative poll
tticians, would do more good in til
pockets of an out-and-out rogue 70
public money would not then be used t
Ieorrupt and influence votes, and to fal
asify returns, which is its destination
when paid as salaries toward hangers
| on.
Better rogue skipping to Canad
THAN a hired henchnar, retained 70
countings
It has been dinned into the ears of th
public for twenty years that the Kellog
administration stood for ali that wa
wasteful and extravagant III the histor