The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-05-27
DR.. Dunn Grows Retrospective.

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Editor Collar Chronicle:
We left Laredo TAO Tuesday morn
ing for Shreveport, Louisiana. We
bid adieu to kindred and friends
departing is such sweet sorrOw")
and took passage on International
railroad, great trunk line from st.
Louis to City 0f Mexico. The engines
on this road, that part from Laredo
to City OF Mexico. must be huge mon
sters to climb the mountains In Mex
leo. They are 100 ton engines, with
drive wheels six feet In diameter. As
l walked by the side OF one of them
l wondered II Stevenson could come
out OF his grave and take a look at
this wonderful and magnificent piece
OF machinery, II he would think it
worth while to answer the many ar
guments put forth I'm his time, to
prove that railroads were impractic-
able? England at this time las well
as most OF EurOpe) was surveyed for
Brinley's System Of Canals. This
projected enterprise failed of course
with practical demonstration of rail-
road locomotion.
1t makes one thoughtful to dwell
upon the different climatic, economic
and modified types OF man this great
artery of commerce traverses. Rail-
ways effect change In people rap
idly, but almost imperceptibly. Per-
sOnal iOcomotiOn makes a eelf-reliant.
aggressive and different type OF sta
ti0nary people with their world
around them, set ideas and little
prospects of changing In every day
life. Some communities are limited
to a narrow circle by reason Of isola-
tion from railroad centers.
The Alamo and other spots in Tex
as are famous. made so by acts of
men recorded and made historical.
made no place for a coward. aud the
heroic death Of man In battle makes
us love epic poems sang In their
praises. Blood poured out upon the
altar Of liberty for Texas was drawn
freely from other States and vital
spark that made freedom possible.
This war of aggression was the nat
ural outcome of the restless spirit OF
predominant Angl0-Sax0n type from
Piedmont section for wrestling the
fair territory III Texas from Mexi-
cans. Texas freely levied upon and
drew from the best blood Of the south
west to fight her battles and make
her what she IL to-day-one Of the
brightest stars In the GALAXY. Her
type of native Texan man would
have long remained dormant under
existing conditions. They sing prais-
es of Texas and Texans, but want
to remind them New England gave
them Austins and Burnett; Kentuck-
Iey, Duralls; Tennessee, Houston,
Crockett and Bean; Mississippi. Trav-
is; Alabama, Milan Georgia, Shack
elford; Louisiana, Bowie, and a
horde of men that followed them
from hill and dale made victory pos
sible.
Southwest history reads Ike ro-
nance and IL indeed rich field.
Miss Carrie DriscOll. of Austin, Tex
as, whose very name has became sa-
cred to Texas made 1t possible to
| purchase and preserve the Alamo as
q historic memorial to the State.
Eight men In the Texas legislature,
whose cold commercial hearts beat
with no more sentiment. pulsation or
life than q dead fish, voted against
the purchase of this sacred relic Of the
heroic and tragic fate Of Texas Sons
for freedom
should lie to dwell upon the eco
nomic conditions of the people saw
! and studied, since economic question