The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-08-19
Burnside Notes and Leaks.
RX Henry C Rraud

Misses Heloise and Dorothy Chap
man, winsome daughters of Mr.. and
Mrs. George H. Chapman, spent last
Monday afternoon with friends here.
My report of the weather this week
is too much rain for the harvesting
of the rice and glorious for the grow
ing of the cane. No damage to rice
SO far.
One of the two United States gov
ernment machines which had been
operating in the building of the
Riverton levee, has been sent away
to Sarpy, in St. Charles parish.
The kellar Company has secured
the contract to build the St. Emo
levee Mr.. Kellar finished the last one
mile Of the jefferson highway near
here a year ago.
1t is not generally known that the
Public Service Commission has issued
in the past four months, orders as
follows: "Twenty- per cent reduc
tion in exchange telephone rates; ten
per cent reduction in all freight
rates within the state; required in
stallation of signal bells at Woodlawn
and Belle Point on the jefferson
highway on the Y. and NJ. V. Rail
way, and ordered the Gulf Coast line
(F'risco) to stop passenger trains at
Convent, St James parish. Do you
come from long-lived family? Are
you in normal condition an in perfect
health? Then some of you many live
to collect a refund from the telephone
company for the increased rates
given them by Shelby Taylor and the
ltae John T. Michel, more than eigh-
teen months ago.
The steamer Virgie was laid up this
week to change her fuel from coal to
oil This has been made necessary
owing to the long drawn coal strike,
started by the coal mine owners,
whose interest it is to prevent the
miners from earning living. Henry
Ford charges that the coal strike is
being prolonged at the instance of
the owners of the mines to create a
shortage and sell their coal that cost
them $3.50 a ton, to the consumer
for $14, while the miners are getting
an average wage Of $500 a year in
West Virginia and $1,000 in Illinois.
This will be news to your readers.
Our erstwhile parishioner and
sugar planter, Col. j. S. Webster, has
a letter to the Times-Picayune writ
ten from Baton Rouge, in which he
gives the tariff on sugar from George
Washington to Woodrow Wilson
l913), when sugar was to be put on
the free list on May 16 the following
year. He does not mention that the
Underwood tariff bill carried any
J,,t,r Of oil kIop Ioao Ho
refer to the price of cane, SIT a ton
and sugar 80 cents a pound during
the last two years of Wilson's admin
! iistration-1919 and 1920. The Euro
pean war began August 1914. Sugar
did not go on the free list, owing to
the war. The price rose every yea1
that Wilson was president, for two
terms. Every sugar planter forgot
about tariff until the deflation OF
money in 1920; since then "the Re
publican victory of that year, due tc
an hysteric agitation of the public
mind. Emotion was captain of the
victorious forces, and Captain Emo
tion was on a grand, hilarious, dis
astrous drunk. The country is
striving to get sober, always an agon-
1Zing and eXcruclatlng process. Inc
Nc Cumber tariff, being supported by
the two Louisiana senators from
Alum to Zinc, because sugar is ten
tatively promised a duty of 1.84
against sugar produced in Cuba by
sixty per cent of American capital
The McCumber tariff will enormous
ly increase the cost of living Indeed
it will increase the cost of living and
reduce the collections at the custom
houses If Senators Ransdell and
Broussard are Democrats, then Sena
tors Underwood of Alabama anc
Harrison of Mississippi are not. The
N. o. States of Wednesday gives Sen.
ator Ransdell a we'll deserved roast