The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-02-18
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Baton Rouge Advocate: The
Vicksburg Convention should not
fail to impress upon the people the
fact that if we want these enterprises
we must turn to and build them
with our own money. Twenty
years of the time CT the South has
been frittercd away alternately whin-
ing about hard times and complain
ing because Northern and Eastern
capitalists could not be brought to
zee the advantages that would result
in investing their money in the
South. Ii is high time for the peo-
pie of the South to stop such driv-
cling tommy rot as this and pull off
their coats and build their own
factories. This habit of sitting
down and waiting for somebody
else to come and build factories for
us has probable cost the South in
the thirty four years since the war
closed more than the war ever cost
her, and this expensive folly must
be abandoned. This is the propa-
ganda which the leaders Of thought
in the South should vigorously
push-it is the new Declaration Of
Independence which should be pro
claimed from every hill top and
valley in all these cotton States.
The Vicksburg Convention can do
a great work by assuming an ages
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New Iberia Enterprises: The
mearure introduced in Congress by
Congressman r. +. Broussard for a
post office building and making an
appropriation of $50. 900 for the
purpose, passed the House on Tues
day last without dissenting voice.
1t now goes to the Senate, where it
will doubtless receive the same
favorable consideration. This is
a bright feather in Congressman
Broussard's cap and his home town
feels grateful to him for what will
prove her greatest acquisition in the
way of handsome and substantial
structures. 1t has already had an
appreciablc effect on real estate val
ues, as Uncle Sam will doubtless
experience when he casts about for
a site for the proposed building.
Ruston Leader: Prof. John
McNeese is the Superintendent of
Public Education in Calcaseu
parish. rhe parish pays him a sal
airy sufficient for him to devote his
entire time to the work. He goes
into a leigh borhood and spends a
week. Has a ting of the
patrons. Lays the school interest
before them. He informs them
that the public money will only give
them six months school and he
ask them to supplement this amount
in order to have a nine months
free school. The neighbour God
raises the necessary amount and
the school is conducted as a free
school for nine months instead of
free school for six months and a
haphazard private school for three
months. Calcasieu parish is in the
lCdtL III puDl1C SCHooI "')I n anu VIC
hope some day to see Lincoln par
ish not far behind. Let US move
up all along the line.
St. Martin Messenger: AT a
meeting of the Board of Trade last
Sunday, Mr.. Albert Rousseau made
some remarks in. regard to the plan
submitted by Mr.. H. H. Hargrove
of Shreveport. for the erection of a
cotton mill in the metropolis of
North Louisiana; the idea struck
the members of the Board as being
feasible, and have appointed a
Committee to report al the next
meeting and to submit plan of
organization.
Mansfield Journal The cotton
mill fever is developing in several of
the North Louisiana towns. Plans
are being discussed to establish
mills, and the movement at Shreve-
port has already taken shape. Our
people can Learn a great deal from
the examples set by the progressive
people in the Carolinas. At one