Louisiana capitolian., 1880-09-11
THE RAILROAD AGAIN.

GU IIOH tIiC SuuVVu VNVSuluNu, Jul
readers will see that our neighbors Of
East Feliciana and Amite county, are
ripe for action in the matter of the
long wished for railroad between Baton
Rouge, Clinton and Liberty. Says the
Watchman
The people of Liberty are discuss
ing the route to the river, whether by
Clinton to Baton Rouge, or from Lib
erty to Woodville. To obtain this
important trade Of Amite county, the
Republican is urging upon the Wood
vile people to take such steps as will
secure the route by that town.
A meeting is to be held at Liberty
during this month to consider the
matter, and it is important that Clin-
ton should be represented. 1t is to be
hoped some Of enterprising merchants
and railroad men will be present.
The natural and best route for the
people of Liberty is, beyond all ques-
ton, to Baton Rouge. If the South.
ern Pacific crosses at the latter place
which now seems certain, Messrs.
Pipes 4 Lyons the owners Of the
Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad,
will change the terminus Of their road
to Baton Rouge, and in that event, it
would be of the utmost moment to our
Liberty friends to secure that connec-
ton. Baton Rouge must become in
few years a grand railroad centre.
We heartily approve Of the plan
suggested in the above. At the pro-
posed meeting, Baton Rouge should
be represented by committee of her
public spirited citizens, who, in con-
cert with those of Clinton and Liber-
ty could arrive ut some definite and
business-like plan cooperation, which,
when adopted, should be followed
with the untlinching determination of
bringing the undertaking to q success
fnl termination.
The people along the route to be
traversed can build the railway if
they will set their heads together to
do it. In every section Of Louisiana,
efforts are being made to construct
railroads in order to attract q portion
of the flow of emigration that is surely
coming to our State. 1t is high time
therefore that the inhabitants of the
healthiest, prettiest and most fertile
high lands in the State, the Florid,
parishes, should enter the contest to-
wards progress. Fruits, vegetables,
corn, cotton, the sugar cane, stock
raising, lumber aud manufactures, all
within stones throw of that great ar
terry, the Mississippi river, are the
mines of wealth that are awaiting de-
velOpment to render this favored sec
ton the garden spot Of the State. The
women are as fair and the men as gal
liant in Eastern Louisiana and lower
Mississippi as any who may be found
in the Union. But they must
Come out of the Wilderness"
and show that they also possess the
energy that characterizes the people
elsewhere.
Let a conference be held at an early
date, and a permanent committee
formed with q President, Secretary
etc, the members to be taken from
each locality interested. Then let the
committee men, or such persons as
they may appoint to assist them, go
to every man in their parish or coun-
ty and take down the amount in cash
that each individual will invest
in the stock Of the proposed road; and
from those who have no cash to
invest, the number of acres OF land
they will gre the Company when or
ganized by the Stockholders, SO that
from these assets of cash and lands,
first mortgage bonds, may be issued in
order that the Company may thus pos
sess the securities necessary to etfec,
the loan required to complete the
road.
The era Of money at "a low rate OF
interest is upon us and by a proper
combination and a liberal response, the
people along the projected line will
find the means to secure its compile
ton just as sure as the sun rises in
the east.
We again appeal to the public spir.
tied citizens Of Baton Rouge, if they
would become the benefactors of our
working classes and the farmers from
whose labors they will be repaid ten.
fold in the near future by the wealth