New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-10-08
A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION

Discussing the duty of citizens
to support tire two amendments re
llating to the ExpoSit IN that
stalmch journal. the Monroe News
Star. illustrates the So-called
burden of that tax III the fol
lowing stiking manner.
"The tax imposed in the coun-
try VIII amount to exactly seven
and one-half cents on a thousand
dollars assessment. The average
assessment in the country parish
eS Of LouiSiana-that Is the res =
dent owners about five hundred
dollars, making the tax to be paid
by the average ploperty-owner
less than twenty cents per year
the price of four cigars. two
drinks Of whiskev. half dozen
eggs or one small chicken. y
If there is a voter in Louis ana
with property assessed at five hun
bred dollars who would not cheer
fully deny himself four cigars a
year. two drinks of whiSkey or
one small chicken. to prevent the
Exposition from going to San
Francisco The defeat Of the tax
will decide the question as b.
tween New Orleans and San
Francisco. Congress. having ne
CURED a fund of seven and one
half million dollars as a guaran-
tee that the city had put herself
in position to finance an EXposi-
tom as big as the Worlds Pana-
ma ENposit on must of necessity
be. could not be expected to con
S der the claims of a city whose
pledge to raise the amount agreed
upon had been repudiated by the
people of the State.
San Francisco is making a most
aggressive fight and she has mil
lions in money with which to back
up her claims. Can it be possible
that for the price of two drinks of
whiskey a year for ten years any
voter in Louisianawould let this
great opportunity pass by and the
show 90 to San Franeiscl
In hundred years ~ such OPP
portun tv has ever before come to
the people of this State. and there
is no possibility that such an APP
portunity will again come our way
within the next hundred years. Is
it worth the price of half dozen
eggs to u.s. Is it worth the price
of two drinks of wh;skey or of
four cheap cigars. to the man
whose assessment is five hundred
dollarSg
This appeal to the small farmer
and tax payer. the average man.
the common people whom some one
has suggested. the Lord must love
or he wouldn't have made so
many of them. In spite Of all that
may be said to the contrary these |
are the men whose farm yards.
gardens. diaries and pastures will
be drafted upon to supply the |
things required to food the mil
ions of people who will visit the |
Exposition if it be held N New
Orleans. 1t is the Young men on
he small farms to whom the Ex-
position will open opportunities
'or greater efficiency IN agricul- |
.ural pursuits. for higher service
md better rewards: and to the
Toung women on the small farms
he Exposition will bring the
lawn If brighter and better days
n the uplift which the results of
he Exposition viii impart to the
ioeial and intellectual activities
Incident to life in agricultural
louisiana.
To the mRn who may think that
he sacrifice of two drinks of
year is too heavy a
rice to pay fer an Exposition
which will accomplish much for
he entire state. argument as
trong as proofs of Holy writ =
vould fall upon unheeding cars.
sut to the man "who hath ears to
ear" the time has come to hear
nd heed; fer the preferred oppor-
unity rejected ut the polls in
november viii never be presented .