The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-06-06
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Chief is not responsible for the
views expressed by correspondents.

views expressed by correspondents.
Louisiana Sacrificed to Free Trade.
The Aztecs of Mexico, in their
sacrificial religious offerings to their
Sun God, when their priests held
aloft the warm and palpitating heart
torn from the inert body of the hui
man being sacrificed, committed no
greater crime against the individual
than that which the Democratic party
has done to the state Of Louisiana
by the enactment and putting in
operation Of the Wilson tariff.
Louisiana being an agricultural
state, unless it's lumber industry be
classed under the head of manufac.
lures it's population in both cities
and country is dependent ON its two
great crops of sugar and rice and its
iumbeE industry, for its welfare and
financial success.
With hardly one year of the vii
son tariff controlling the business OF
the country, it's effect in Louisiana
has been felt to a greater extent
than in any other section Of the
United States, for the effect in Lou.
isiana was immediate, and the re-
suits are shown by the following con
ditions obtaining here, viz:
1. Fear for the future that makes
all values uncertain and consequent,
ly drives away investors.
2. Diminution of production in
both field and mill. necessarily les
sening the employment of labor.
8. Curtailment of labor's oppor.
tunity to earn. which compels him
to seek other fields for employment.
AS the financial Wen-being of a
country has as it's keystone the Ia
borer, he supporting the arch OF
success ON which is builded all
material prosperity, to diminish his
powea to earn results in the weak
enins of the arch, and if this con-
tinues may result in the total de-
struction OF that arcn. This simiIe
Of labor's place fits the conditions
now obtaining in Louisiana. The
Wilson tariff has caused, is causing
and will cause the direst distress,
in this, that fields are lying falloW
and wheels do not turn. The field
hand, the mill employee and the
clerk, having his opportunity to earn
taken away, cannot buy, hence the
merchant does not sell: the owner
OF mill, field or farm cannot employ,
hence he does not give the producer,
(the laborer). the chance to earn;
the merchant cannot pay. as the con-
sumner, (the Iaborer), cannot buy; the
banker may not lend to either mer-
chant or owner, as the laborer has
not bought from the first nor pro.
duced for the other.
To all OF which and for which Viii
son and his policies are directly re.
sponsib1e, and the only mistake made
BIZ writer IN the Item Of April "a
1913. wherein ns said the Democratic
party would owe the people Of the
state OF louisiana, on June l, 1916,
the sum of s1S3, SIC. 900, was in his
placing the time of the maturity OF
this debt at June |, 1916. He should
have been prophetic enough to have
placed the debt as due on this date,
for the state Of Louisiana is today
"Wilsonized" to the bitterest ex-
treme, and, like the high priest OF
the Aztec sun Worshippers, Free
Trade High Priest Wilson stands at
the sacrificial stone, surrounded by
the lesser priests of free trade aid
ing and abetting his crime, with the
warm and palpitating heart of his
foster daughter, Louisiana, in up.
lifted hands and offers Louisiana to
the God OF free trade.
Who is the next foster daughter
to follow Louisiana?
PROGRESSIVE.