St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-26

deter donors and testators from
such gifts, when they know thai
their gifts will be delivered Ii
the state treasury and away from
the purposes intended by them
Mrs. NeWcomb gave to New.
comb College about So, 000, 600.
Would she have done so If she
had known that $3.50, 600 of the
funds could be taken away from
the education of our girls in that
college and given over to the
state treatury?
She contemplated founding a
college in Townsville Ca, but
exemption from taxation was an
incentive to her to build
Neweomb College here.
Would Alexandria Hutchinson
have given 1880, 600 to the
medical college If he had known
that 1888, 900 could be diverted
into the state treasury?
Ought we not to avoid such
laws which repel such gifts in
aid of education, SO that the citi-
zens of our state, who are to be
the beneficiaries Of these dona-
tons, may enjoy their advantag-
es to the full measure of the va
lue of the property donated.
Would not Mr.. Delgado have
been deferred from leaving his
fortune to establish an industrial
school for our youth; and Mrs.
Miliikan. who gave her fortune
to the Charity Hospital for the
benefit Of sieh children?
Such a law ought to be voted
by our whole people.
POINT XV-NO REAL n
CREASE IN THE PARISHES.
The people of the parishes are
being told that the parishes will
get more money under the new
scheme, while the people pay no
more taxes.
They are told also that the
state will get more money, but
that the corporations taken over
by the state will pay less.
In other words, they are told
that every taxpayer will pay less
taxes, but that both the state
and the parishes will receive
more revenue.
This, of course. cannot be true.
If the parishes get more money
they must get it ont their own
people and the property of their
own people which is left to them,
As a matter of fact the pre-
tended showing of a small in
crease exhibited to them comes
from the additional parish tax of
six mills which the parishes are
required to levy upon their own
If it be true that upon identi-
cally the same property the par
ishes get more revenue and the
state also more revenue, then
somebody must be paying the
excess. IF it comes from the
new special taxes, it is
clear that it is the people after
Ill who are paying it. The new
scheme proposes to raise $40,
200 more per annum for the state
to spend than before and it is
certain that the people of the
state must pay this additional
amount. Any pretense of a saw
ng to the people is and must be
a delusion.
HASTE OF PREPARATION.
Each day adds new evidence
If the undue haste with which
measure was prepared and
he half-baked condition IN
it was turned out. The
Measure was first published in
he journals of the state on Aug.
3, 1912. Eleven days there
after. Aug. q, 1912, it had been
by both houses of the
legislature. This record for
is, we are certain. unsur-
passed in the history of the state
:or a measure of its Importance.
n that brief period Of ten days
t was repeatedly conceded that
.he'laW as originally framed was
it fault and amendments ac-
by the Tax Commission
we're tackled &c it and are now
embodied in il. Some of these
mendments involve sacrifices of
Principle to meet political ext
sencies. Some were admittedly f
included for the purpose Of vote
setting. Many Of the best IN
ormed business men, and even
aWyers of ouf state viii tell YOU
'paaly t0da5 that no opporta-
u