The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
VOL. XXXIv
The Better Plan.

organize, construct, and operate a
great International Exposition on
a scale BETTING the important
achievement which it proposes to
celebrate, the Exposition Compa-
ny has requested the Governor to
convene the Legislature in extra
ordinary session in order to effect
change in the plan of the tax
provided in the pending Constitu-
tional Amendment. The executive
committee proposes to relieve the
tax payers of the expense of the
proposed extra session by paying
the cost of it out of the funds rails
ed by private subscription to de-
fray the expense of the Exposition
Company, hence, this will remove
objections on that score.
The purpose of the extra session
ought to appeal to the people of
the country parishes for the change
proposed in the amendment, while
it will increase the aggregate of
the tax paid by New Orleans, will
reduce the aggregate of THAT to be
J paid by the country tax payers.
To be specific, the proposition is
to make no change in the tax rate,
but to limit the term for the coun-
try parishes to such time as shall
be required to make the aggregate
of the country tax one million dol
lars, when it will cease automat2
cally. The measure now before
the people contemplates raising
$1,250,000 from the country par
ishes, hence, a quarter of q million
dollars will be saved to the tax
payers outside of New Orleans by
the adoption of the proposed
amendment.
On the other hand, the term of
the tax as it applies to New Or
leans will be extended until it ag-
gregates the sum of $500, 900,
when it also will cease automati-
cally. The ratio between city and
country on the amount to be raised
by taxation, will be as six and q
half is to one; fact that ought to
be accepted as an earnest of the
good faith with which New Or
leans has entered upon this great
undertaking.
This should not be construed to
mean that the tax proposed will
supercede the subscriptions, more
than million of which have been
raised already. On the contrary,
the work of raising subscriptions
is being pushed with more vigor
than ever, and the effort is being
made to enlist the financial inter-
est of every person in New Orleans,
and of great many public spirit
ed citizens in every southern city
in this monumental enterprise
which means SO much to all.
1t requires seven and q half mil
lion dollars to enable New Orleans
to meet the conditions imposed by
the Congressional Committee, but
the Exposition Company. recog-
nizes that this amount will not be
sufficient to celebrate a great expo
sition such as that by which New
Orleans proposes to celebrate the
completion of the Panama Canal
to the commerce of the nations.
Therefore, she proposes to raise
the full amount of her guarantee
by special taxation in order that
its soundness may be unassailable,
and, by private subscription, she
proposes to raise such additional
sum as shall enable her to give to |
the world the greatest exposition
that mankind has yet witnessed.
In this patriotic effort New Or
leans. gladly assuming what must
be considered to be an Ultra liber-
al portion of the burden, cordially
invites the people of the country