New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1915-05-08

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Congress his opponent appointed
a committee of one hundred II
Vermilion parish. where thu
Broussard family is not strong
Yet in that committee Of on'
hundred there were twenty-thre'
Broussards. How many Brous
sards on the distaff side of The
family, no one thought of inquir
ing.
/ Broussard is biue-eyed Nor
man. with a thatch of thinning
brown hair, and coUsin, therefore
to that other Northam, knuts
Nelson, who left Norway a few
centuries after Rollo took the
original BrouSsard to the duchy
Charles tine Simple gave him. IN
addition TO having a knowledge
of all phases Of sugar that makes
Henry Cabot Lodge bulge his
eyes with wonder, Robert Folignv
believes he is able to speak any
where on earth and has work
ing knowledge Of the dialects that
have been strapped.
Beginning with 1913, when the
BrouSsardS and other Norman
French were driven out Of Nova
Scotia, thereby giving Longfel-
low the story Of Evangeline, the
Acadian French have always had
fight on hand to keep the pow
ers that be from deprMing them
of something. Just at present
they believe the government Is
depriving them of their planta-
tons, because sugar will be on the
free list IN 1916. Broussard is a
true Acadian in respect Of being
against the government. When
the Republicans are in power. be-
ing nominally Democrat. HE
must be III opposition to them
When the power is i'll the hands
of the Democrats he is against
them because he believes they
hay deserted Jetfersonism, which
to him means tariff for the en-
enlargement of American indus
tries. But opposition has been
politically profitable for him.
His Democratic colleagues in the
House, when they got the chance,
threw him off the ways and means
committee, whereupon his party
him for the Senate
and the legislature, in May, 1912.
elected him to the term beginning
March 4, 1915. Just to emphasize
their liking for him, they sent him
back to the House of Representa-
tives to serve the two-year term
that would intervene between the
time Of his election to the Senate
and his taking his seat therein.
He is the only man who has ever
had that experience to add to that
other distinction Of being the last
man, elected by a state legislature,
to take his seat in the Senate.
1t was during the ad interim
term in the House that he made
his fight for the retention of tho
Court and the extern
sion of it's jurisdiction. He had
a personal interest in that court
in that James Louis Murphy, one
Of his cousins (Murphy's mothers
name having been De la Hous-
saye), was deputy marshal of that
now truly lamented tribunal.
Broussard began his poIitica,
career in the customs house at
New Orleans as an Inspector and
'tatistician. When the lottery
light came on, true to Acadian
Broussard turned in to
light the government, The govern
nent in the Pelican State then be-
ng an adjunct to the Louisiana
ottery. Reform has ever been a
with Cousin Bob. al
hough the so-called progressives
Who abolished the Commerce
court on the theory that it was
n enemy of shippers, give him no
redit as a reformer. Rather
hey think of him as reactionary, |
which is the generic name for re-
ormers who refuse to believe that
he exploded theories Of govern
1ent that were frazzled at the
lme of the Greek republic, are
lgns of progress and reform. If
cceptance Of them is reform, then
is prOfanely not y 20