The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-03-09
Zip. 1 Let Him Go!
CoLrAx, La, March I, 1878.

mucn Wnetner the WORD splendid
will be added. When we advocs-
ted the building of u court house
in the town of Colfax, we thought
to reflect the wishes of "a majority
of the people of the parish of
Grant. The grand jury, at its last
sitting of the district court of this
parish, urged and recommended
the building Of II court house, the
various officers Of the parish are III
great and immediate need of its
construction, in order to have suit
able rooms in which 10 perform
their duties, the people require
public court house for the protec-
ton of their landed titles, mortga-
ges, Judgments and the entire pub
lie records of this parish. the law
required that the police juries OF
the parishes, through their bodies,
should cause this building to be
constructed. Now, the article of
Zip" did not propose, nor was it
intended to reflect, the disjoinied
aud peculiar ideas of tae bon pro-
gressive fogy, who would migrate
to another country where there are
no railroads, no STEAMBOATS,, no
court houses, ii such should Do ac-
cidentally located ne,sr enough TO
him to occasionally sea the sheriff
or hear the whistle blow.
He says, there Is no great need
of court house at ( olfax." Where
do you want 1t, III Montgomery?
If 81, why did you not say so2
Why, my dear fellow, there is no
use for railroads or STEAMBOATS,, be-
cause fats, wagons, horses and tho
old appliances could Carry to mar
ket all of the produce OF THIS coun-
try. Anything with new before
it is iutolerable, and you should be
careful i'll what locaity III Grant
you place it for fear some might be
deprived of the pleasure o. seeing
it, or of receiving the immediate
benefit it affords; and, If 1t Is a
public necessity without individual
profit, don't build 1T 1t costs too
much tue parish Is III debt; the
old one will do and thousand
other old fogy sayings that Will
bring disgrace to any corporate
body.
The facts are that the parish OF
Grant is greatly IN need OF court
mousse, III 10 "ituooe ".Ao,
parish deserves to be respected
without this great and necessary
requisite; and it is the duty OF the
police jury to see that it is built,
and as soon as possible, Or "Abol-
ish the parish" will be the tune
sung at home as we'll US abroad.
When we directed the attention
of the police jury to the law; to the
wishes of the people, to the neces-
sites of public requirements, to
the advancement of the parish OF
Grant, to the law in reference
thereto making it their duty to
construct her temple Of justice, We
did not reflect upon them any dere-
LECTION of daty. We did not blame
them for past or future records; we
did not censure them FOR any act
which they had performed; nor did
we at the time intend to dose and
physic them with purgative of
soft solder that should make Clute
laugh, so copiously laid on and
given to that body by DIR. Grant. in
his article Zip He Took Him."
The gentlemen composing the
police jury of the parish OF Grant
are no doubt her best citizens, and
cannot complain when other good
citizens suggest improvements the
law requires to be made. A parish
without a court house is like bug
ov without a horse. The buggy