Lower coast gazette., 1909-02-27
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9th 1909.
Progressive Plaquemines.

n p singular editorial in his issue of February 20, our con-
temporary permits himself to say that ! f IL ana1 pal simn ~ IMe
cause we are unfortunate enough to have among US Us to many mMdl,
through greed are looking on only for their own interests M WIN
are seeking to grab everything IN slght, !
=. Our contemporary Isl so accustomed to trifing with the truth, to
giving distorted statements Of facts and unfair conclusions Dased
upon such distortions, and to occasional mlsstatemen1s, untrue IN
TACT and conclusion that we hesitate to consider what ne says or TO
However, we must give him credit for telling the truth some
times, and in a no uncertain way, He never sad traet h worq Is 'naa
the interests behind him have been the chief sinners in every
specification that he makes. He asked his ward tor his elecuon 10
He then asked for something and got the cerkship Of the Poice
Jury and from that moment was q 1 10 o,i the oGoy s snHI ne ;t
?st t y g h me hss his reward. # he has a good looking glass he
must be ashamed to look himself in the face.
ore N0 Dis as to his hs! pf f6s ra6f to- o5 t 5ns u 1nc te 5 Sc per- er' cent 49, w ny? Ba>
cause he or his immediate Mediate fri friends ssd j; in mss 10 on ds # It's i pf5pcpaf
Of the property owners Of that district that only by such le eESla.
ton that that section of the parish could be saved from periodic
overhows. The bill was got through the Legislature only by e-'
planning the request of the property owners to thus tax X men, n
limit the Lake Borgne District to the lower line Of Monsecour
f ferred to- be me ID in the !" District and to be protected from
crevasses as they have been for sixteen years,
cides to give some one else the Offices. It makes a difference to
monk aseM W Would di be-; when V n the devil got well, the devil of a monk was
he Our contemporary is now in the first stage OF the devlls
di5tsmper; to H ns a msy si nepff f absurdy u untre ee"'s' The writer t was a
promoter, a stakeholder and a director in the New Orleans and
Gulf Railroad whenit was built to Bohemia. He opposed the TAX
up of the twenty miles Of rails from Belair to e Bohemia il ia5s en-
deavored to organic, an opposition toit, but faled: he esm hd Always qI!wys
which was always recprocated by Judge HingIe in many public
speeches and places. For many years he was the largest tax
erty and on his shares in corporations in which he owns practically
ali the stock far more than all the taxes paid by the members Of
The new tax resisting organization, He has lived in this parish
longer thar the editoro of Che Protector. he has the interest Of the
parish always at heart, be- is a willing taxpayer, but makes no
failed to get the office he wanted, but he doesn't sulk in his tent
because Of that. When the writer turned over the affairs OF the
parish to the Hon. H. P. Kernochan in 1892 there were no debts due
Whatever, and a Court House had been built. Let us hope thai, dur
ing the administration of the Hon. 3: Fastening two hlgh schools
f.uiIfbe built, and provision made for their maintenance, that our roads
= vii Aagreatly improved and that our present excellent levee sys
TEN will be maintained against the constantly increasing rve1
height. All this shall be our earnest prayer, even it there be ta2
resisters, anarchists, socialists and disgrunted office seekers,