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K esCau etr I a9*;MlJAI #. 8a DL' , - lIPubhlle.'r 1'.p. ----- - ",Wghm Jou,,awl of the Pa,ish of Lalosrche. .,,r .rr , rvt:e tt (#f' 7ZtIib.da.'. Le p* g yC fI.. 1 Amgt.I a _e, . . . O w ..t Y .... Ii, AD , iS . . .. . OO All c,,rorDmIman'atioub should be. ad dree. el to T',,:T TIABLuAI X SENTINEL. rhib,,:tux. l:.:& iu v'.rf!,rs ' f ti, rC--,~ tif-ar paper S tmi.le t hl. ', ntft , us without dela.V QFully prepared to do job work; of every description. rr(.rer pon, 1Er, t. on qst.ge.ts of general' * ,Cerl-t si, .tf-I. rt nrll-r n, l l.t - , t~an Ir c€lllllllo lle ation I, writero muost f r.,- il, "i. ir r ,- nuCe,ev ,n tho zuth they shl,.d !c.+ir'- t ,o w itl.b' ld 11t .tblltatca . n, as: u -1,. n. rl- ,f g..od fatL. Matter lntenelr , forr publ,: ,aton bh,,uldl j Wrt,ten irly Vl, n, *:'Ir' of ti t- ireet. Iort to tasel r nrs.-rto., , i"l we- I*, lll s '. CO O _p5unenations sah',,', rea-ic tlhls offce by oIdlae i*LSa t:nl l u( t l .t we . Qur Farmers Should Try A Change. It is now an assured fact that Thibodaux will have a cannery. The stoc:k has been s-ub,.rihe'l and the contract given out to construct the catenery. Atte-itiorn Imuslt now be di rec-ted to another branch of the industry, itamely, the growing of the raw material, tOlllatJo.4, iHeans;, okra, corn, to supply the factory. There shiould bhe 11o: difii:iulty in securiung the raw material, if our farmiers consult their own pecuniary interest, for it will undoubtedly he to their inter est to raise vegetables for the factory. Takes the item of tomatoes, for example, there is no doubl)t that land culti vated in tomatoes will net more per acre than any other crop, cane not excepted. Our soil is rich and well adapted to truck farming. We have a large number of small farms in this parish, and it will be of vast advan tage to their owners who oc cupy and cultivate them to have a new market opened for vegetables which can be in abundance . Our iirrimers iW6al well to give the matter of raising tomatoes and other vegetables for the cannery their most serious considera tion. We think it will pay theln, and pay handsomely. It will bring'them cash money at the factory, without any middleman's commission. Eve ry small farmer shotld con tract to plant and raise one or more acres of tomatoes or other vegetables, as may he agreed uimpo with the man agers of tihe cannery, and we bIare no doubt thatthe re .ults will be satisfactory. All acre of tomatoes will net them anore than an acre of Irish po. tatoes or of onion, and will be less trouble to raise. Try I'The most noted event of last week in the South was the visit of Admiral 8chlcy anid Col. A. K. McClure to New Orleans. A public re ceptionr was tendered them on Friday night whiclh was so largely attended that there was not enough room for all. The pess -of Louiliana and Mississippi was well represen. ted at the reception. Patriotic addresses were made and the most unbound ed enthusiasm prevailed. The hero of Santiago was lionized everywhere. His stay in New O'rleans was a series of ovations from start to fin Anthyax in Cuba. From a rue:ent issue of the avttaia Pt we learn if an outbreak of that much dread ed disease, amtlhrax, or chlar ibl as it iS mlore commonly tnown in Luxisians.. The Havana Post lha beeni invest igating the matter amd arPives at the on thudox conclusion that the government should hmrn or c:nomn pel the burninlg of tyery animal dying o4 uinttriax. T'Ihe.Cuban govern =en t is said mow to be spend jiug thlusanls.of dolltar fom but ,n,"c"1 y if the.e!', 1 infurmant be correct. Hundred- of cattle are said to be dying from the diseawz but we note no reference to horse or mule stock, which are said to be more suscepti ble to It than horned cattle. At least we have thought so in Louisiana. The local au-, thority expressing the opin ions given by the Havana! Pot concludes by saying that anthrax has existed always in Cuba. but can be controlled by the cremation of the char bonous carcasses. The Reciprocity Situation.' The most convenient place to have a boil is on someone else's anatomy and not on our own, and this is the current view of the proposed reciprocity treaties. They are all right if they don't clash with any American in dustry. But eleven calendar days and fewer than that of1 working days remain of the present session of Congress aind the conviction seems spreading that there will be no reciprocity legislation this session. Reciprocity along the lines proposed, with Cuba, cannot do other than severely injure all of our domestic sugar in dustry, both cane and beet. The Cuban and British West Indian crops are now coming forward and the United States are practically the on ly market. They will market and have ready for delivery during the next five months about 1,250,000 tons of sugar, and if this be marketed as usual we shall have 250,000 tons per month imported on a market, the average consump tion of which is about 200,000 tons per month. Where is the room for our home grown cane and beet sugar if this of imports be thrust upon us as is usual and if the Cuban part comes in at I cent per pound less than now. Necessarily the whole level of values will drop the 8-8 cent per pound and the Cu bans will reap no benefit and the domestic sugar industry will sustain the injury of the entire concession. If Cuba were like Hawaii, of limited capacity, its four or five hundred thousand tons would not swamp our market, prices would be sus tained, and Cuba would reap the benefitof the proposed reduced duties on her sugars. As it is now, the promoters of the Cuban reciprocity trea ty, in so far as they have been sincere in their express ed desire to benefit Cuba, are simply killing the goose that has laid the golden egg. We are the goose and Cuba will get no eggs. In fact it now seems that the gradual recognition of the fact is dampening the ardor of the Cubans on reci procity matters. They find tbeirata wesmnt prolsperity is based on solid foundatiois. They can compete successful ly with the whole world in sugar production and ask no odds. The splendid factories now erecting in Cuba, the immense factories recently erected and now in operation and the startlingly rapid re. covery of the Cuban sugar industry from the crushing effects of the war with Spain, as shown in the constant in crease of the yearly crops until now they are about to pass the mnillion-ton line and to break the record, all are evidences that what Cuba needs is to be let alone and Sshe can successfully work out her own destiny.--Louisiana Plarter. Fool Friends of the Negro. A short time ago the Kan sus City Jomrnal remarked that there a.e 5till ome old fashioLzed Republicans whol beiieve that if Congress had taken the Southern disfran chisement bull by the borns negro suffrage would not have been a failure. In com mentinlg on this statement, the Washington Post says: "We think the number of Republicans who believe that, under any possible condi tions. the negro suffrage pro vided for in the Fifteenth amendment could have been other than a failure is ex tremely small. Gradual en franchisemenit of the freed men, with an educational qualification, might have been successful, but this sudden, immediate introduction of that great mass of ignorance, just released from servitude, into the electorate was, fONr ordained to failure. "Have those 'old-fashioned Republicans' forgotten the history of negro and carpet bagger rule in the South! For ten years, under the ad ministration of Johnson and (rant, the white people were disfranchised, and the United States army backed the negro government. The prisons were filled with thousands of citizens against whom no crime had been or could be proved. The legislature of North Carolina authorized the governor to proclaim mar tial law in every county, to arrest and try by court mar tial, and the soldiers were negroe. Gov. Chamberlain, a Republican governor of South Carolina, is authority for the statement that when he succeeded Moses he found that 200 trial justices were holding offices by executive appointment who could neith er read nor write. At the close of the war the debts of the seceded States aggregated $87,000,000. During the ten yearsof ugjor was added. '"These are but a few of the facts of the era of negro suffrage. Wholesale plunder of the whites was the rule. A few years more of it would have left little worth stealing. But an end of that barbarous rule came at last. In 1877 the army was withdrawn and ,the whites took charge of their local governments. What has been the result? Have those 'old-fashioned Re publicans' failed to note it? It is not too much to say that the history of the world af fords no parallel to the deve lopment and progress of the South since negro rule went out. It is a story that reads like a romance-a story of progress and prosperity which contrasts with the era that preceded it as light and hope contrast with darkness and despair." The Washington Post says the reason why Congress did not take the matter by the horns is not diliuonlt to es. plain, because it les In the of a century ago the Republi~ can masses of the North real ized that in conferring the right of suffrage upon the newly emancipated slaves of the South a terrible blunder was commlittedl. This is quite true. They now feel that in resisting negro domination the white people of thie South have done exactly what the people of the North would have done under similar con, ditions. This is the reason why a Republican Congress has not taken the "8outhern disfranchisement bull by the horns," and why the matter will be left to take care of itself. The mistake of negro suffrage was made by the Northern people and they are now perfectly willing that it shall be corrected by the peo pie of the South in their own way. --Daily States. "A Little Tepiest In A Tea - .- a "kl FTU Rc m RnOw" . Editor leatiey of tlbe Don ald'onville j 'ief, under the above cptlng, undertakes to defend his 4fgfnd, President: Roosevelt fothis social equa.: lity and nib-loving procli vities, by declaring that there Is nothing in the charges and that the whole subject is: "much ado about nothing." It is but reasonable to ex pect that the Chief would de fend the peesident "He cer. tainly was good to him:" vide the granite building just at this time. But the southern people will ~t permit the "poo, pooe" 1 a few of the president's debiring- friends and apto to turn them from the "For all tp ,pany weer the demcra* press, especial-' ly in the south, has been de voting column upon column of valuable space in abuse of the chief magistrate of the United States President Theo dore Roosevelt, who is charg ed with advocating social equality between the races. Absurd. These journals pro fess to believe that every lit tile crap-game fight, every irre spensible demagogue's rant-I ing is incited directly by the president's alleged negro po-; licy, a policy which, it is di-. rectly asserted, will envelop the south in all the horrors and carnage of a race war. Ridiculous. Again, it is sol enrmly proclaimed that the re publican party is wickedly re solved to make the negro once more a power in politics. Im possible. "The truth of the matter is that this tremunidously weary ing outcry against the negro is but indn.a-lpaolitial cant, an obsolete slogan, meant to' serve cians. negro doed' not want to meet the white mani upon a sooial plane, and: could not if he would. He would be outdone at every step, constantly eclipsed, and , the impracticable social equa lity so glibly prated of by de magogues and professional I politicians would be to himt but Dead 8ea fruit The inu telligent negro knows this, vide the good, hard, common sense of the eloquent sermon recently.delivered in New Or leans by the Right Rev. Charles ~ . Smith, bishop of the African Methodist diocese of Louisiana and Cuba." Immediately following the president's disgusting con, duct, two negroes ir. Missis. eippi deliberately entered the houses of respectable white f~amilies and demanded social privleges, and riot and blood shed were only avoided by the mgest chance. A nogro villain- tlred to enter the home two ladies in this Aesob negro eat his wile .at-I~i.mmam; no longer than 8j ka lst a negro man and w~mag in this city cursed and abused a gentleman and his wife upon the public high way. And so we might aug ment the list of immediate fruite dt the president's nasty conduot. The aotorious Mormon Senator Smooo, following the president's infamous conduct, entertalis a haltdozen negro men and women at dinner and fotces poor white girls to serve them and again the "lit tie tempst" rises. It i u a "tea pot tempest It is a WhirlrViad. It will blow thlie out of southern repunblanim and i will blow damnation into every negro bwho attempt to emulate the examptes of the president's pet coosq nd the Smoot socie ty cirld; Ifpmted in it means dis~ aster tad Irreparable injury to the wbole negro race in the south, THE WELJLI1.LS ONi MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. WWI " -":. _ FIND THS ROWUL 4LXUL Electro-Medical Faradic Batteries. 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