The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-25
An Outlet Wanted.
Editor Colfar Chronicle :

Editor Collar Chronicle:
Allow me space in your columns
to show the public that the chang
ing of the public road above Colfax
has wrought injustice to individ-
uals and individual property, with
out doing any one any good, or en-
HANGING the value of any property
adjacent thereto. 1t only afforded
a chance for the qualification of
personal i'll feeling.
While / am sure the Police Jury
did not understand the secret in
tention of the proposition before
them, at the same time it is fact
that this matter was railroaded
through without moments delay,
in order to avoid the discussion
likely to occur by such delay. I'm
questionably, in making such
change in the road, it should have
been duly published in the parish
paper for 80 days, as the law di-
reefs, in order to allow the public
a chance to protest against the in
jury likely to be incurred by the
change.
It will be remembered that the
police jury appointed Mr. Teal as
one the commissioners to review
out this road, and, as he is the one
that first agitated this question of
making change in the roads, let
us see his object. 1t is very true
his excuse was plausible enough to
a confding people, but when the
true ring is gwen, it sayors strong
ly of something very unamerican.
The main object by the reviewer
was to cut off traffic and commune
cation with Buckeye landing, which
could not be done except by first
obtaining sanction of the police
| jury to change the road. That be-
ing accomplished, the other became
a necessity, except in SO far as a
gate is concerned as the point of
entrance to the landing.
Buckeye landing has been a
public shipping point for years,
and is of considerable importance,
when we consider the fact at that
point vast amount of lumber has
been shipped up and down the riv-
er. Unless an opening is made to
the landing it practically debars
the saw mills from this river trade,
as this is the only available point
that can be reached by them.
It is fact, as has been lately
developed, that this change in the
road was agitated through spirit
of personal i'll will against the OPP
orator of Buckeye store, and be-
cause he trades with persons other
than those on his own land. This
is said to be free country, but
whenever any one is debarred OF
, his rightful privilege of dealing
where he is best pleased, it is
branching off from freedom, and
American liberty. Shall COM
. munity suffer because some indi-
vidual happens to be where he car
) force them? Or does might make
right? Shall our people be bound
8 down in abject slavery because they
do not happen to be SO fortunate al
their neighbors? l ask, does the
/, laboring man become the property
. of the landlord when he moves Oh
: his land, transferable as rea
estate, or is it simply a mutua
business transaction between then
by which both are expecting to b.
benefited? Are people to be de
!, prived of their social, religious ant
political liberty, because they ar
tenants? How does that sound TO
free born American citizen!
Friends, l want you to thin
: where our social and political lib
l. critics are drifting. Now, referrinI
again to closing up the communi
cation with Buckeye landing. ]
> places the land owned by other
!, back of the landing at a discount
y and forces those people to 60 q
~ least two miles to transact whs
e business they have, whereas the
= might do so under the old rules B
, going a few hundred yards.
e this right or justice?
u Right OF WAY.