The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-20
CONE. WE'LL DO YOU GOOD.

the people have had time to collect
their wits after the long continued
buzzing of approximate candidates,
it is good time to cast about and
see what may be done to improve our
lot by Tightening our burdens and
creating a demand for the thousands
OF acres of surplus and idle lands
that stretch over miles and miles of
this fertile and productive parish.
It does seem. that with little ener-
gy bestowed in the right direction. i'm
migrants could easily be induced to
settle in country with a boil 80 fer
tile and climate so healthful and
pleasant as this. In no part of these
United States can finer spot be 90
lected to grew rich upon with greater
ease than almost any section of land
in the State of Louisiana, and in no
part of Louisiana can be found q
more healthful locality or soil
adapted to greater variety Of pro-
ducts than Grant parish. There are
men in this parish who have grown
rich. and yet scarcely may be said to
have labored for their wealth, it hay-
ing come to them in the increase of
stock that grew and thrived with
little more care than sailing occasion
ally and marking the increased In
the line Of farming. there are improv-
ident, careless and negligent negroes.
who rent lands at a. an acre, loaf
fully half their time, make half crop,
and yet have money to get on hum
dred-dollar drunk Christmas, after
paying all -expenscsl We do not
charge our negroes with all being of
this class, for there are many thrifty
farmers and good managers among
them. who are growing richer and
richer every year, but that the class
referred to are numerous cannot be
denied. An enterprising. temperate
and economical New Highlander. or q
Swiss, French. German or Irish far
mer, under the same conditions,
would make enough to supply his
family, pay his debts, and have sur
plus of from 5000 to $500. With
such facts as these staring them in
the face, it seems the strangest thing
in the world that intelligent immi-
grants should pass Louisiana by for
the bleak mountains Of the far West.
If they understood that it makes lit
tie or no difference whether they
have money or not when they land
here; that good strong arm and
willingness to work is a full guaran-
tee which will secure to them sup
plies to live upon while they make q
crop that they can certainly. make
in almost any year enough to dis
charge all obligations incurred, and
still have q balance to lay away for q
rainy day, we do not think all the
infamous lies and ISLANDERS beaped
upon this community would have any
effect with them. Our people are
law abiding, peaceable and disposed
to help all who help themselves. and
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness is as fully guaranteed and pro-
tected as in any portion Of the United
States. We have now lived in Grant
parish for over two years. and in
that time the only killing that has
occurred was that of colored wo-
man who shot her husband in q FAM
ily quarrel. This, with . few petty
larceny cases, constitutes the cata-
logue Of crime in the parish for more
than two years. The people all help
to enforce the laws, and are deter
mined to make the country, as God
designed it, the Utopia Of this CONT
nent In conclusion, all we have to
say to immigrants is, come to us and
we will do you good.