Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1913-08-09

as cases of assault and battery.
and using. obscene language
brought to the attention of the
court.
The sheriff is not responsible
for those charges, nor is any other
officer.
Now coming back to the Sun
day law and Gay-Shattuck laws,
desire to call tire attention OF
the tax payers of this parish to
the fact that the sheriff collects
over fifteen thousand dollars OF
licences per year. Let the Gay
Shattuck and Sunday laws be en-
forced and you will have to in
crease taxation, as it is now a
hard matter for the saloon man
to pay the $725 license per year. !
| Take aWay from him one of his
best days cut of seven, and force
him to pay 81, 5000 instead of
/ $4,000, we will not have four
saloons throughout the parish,
and this will bring, in my estima-
ton, only 81, 600 to the parish and
cut out a yearly revenue Of ten to
eleven thousand dollars. IN or
der to recoup, you viii have to
double the parish taxes from z to
Ii mills. The Gay-Shuttuck and
Sunday laws are not detrimental
to me IN my personal business.
My family and I would be more
than glad to see at tleast, the Sun
day law enforced.
LObservateur maliciously
libels me, when it says that I
violated the Gay-Shattuck law,
because since this law was enact
ed, | have not taken the license
to sell liquors. | have never since
sold a drop of liquor nor did [ buy
any and this can be proven to.
the satisfaction of the good pee
pie of st. John.
Let any one write TO the audi
tor at Baton Rouge, as well as to
the travelling auditor, and they
will find out that no other tax
collector stands higher than your
humble servant. Ask your police
| jurors and their president, ask
your grand jurors and the fore
man of the grand jury and the
previous grand juries and they
will answer you, that have col
lected the licenses in full.
An investigation at the court
house will shcW that I hold my
Iquietus from the State and the
travelling auditor and police juries
since. fourteen years.
When | became a factor here in
politics I found this parish over
twenty thousand dollars in debt,
and when the police jury issued a
voucher, at that time. to a Juror
or any officer, ne had to go to a
broker and discount said voucher
for so to so cents on "a dollar, and
the parish tax at that time was
10mills.
Now, previous to this year, we
have paid only 7mills. Our assess
Ement is a little over three and half
millions. Have had since a great
deal Of improvements in better
roads. It is useless to say how
better our schools are. When you
receive your voucher now you get
your fullsdoIlar, and the parish is
/ in a flourishing condition. I have
assisted with all my might to have
the school system taken out of
politics. Write to the present
Eschool members and the Superin-
tendent, as well as tothe previous
I
superintendents, and you will
find that what I say is true.It has
been my desire, and finally the
road work is entirely out of poll
ties. Necessarily, one man by him
self could not have brought about
snch conditions. Thanks, say, te
others like Mr.. Wn. ]. Hart, your
present clerk of court. Mr.. Geo.
II. Tassin, your assessor, your
J present president Of police jury,
and ii fact the present police
jury as a whole, to the past presi-
dent of the police jury, Mr.. A.
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