The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-09-21

ouiHS ciSe put me dow
as a friend of the boys and girls {
s our beloved State.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
The question that lies nearest; n
true Southern heart il the care Of IN
worn out Confederate soldier. W,
owe him debt OF undying love an.
: gratitude and have but a few wear,
I'D which to pay it. As tile wears orc
hy, his ranks grow thinner. his han,
winter and his feeble frame more tor.
terlng. 1t lie fact within the knowl.
edge vi almost every one that there
are 10 every community some who
wore thegray who are no longer a BILE
20 earn a living and in many instanc-
es have no loved ones to care for
Them In their declining DAYS. Shall
u be said that louisa ma with all her
riches, who furnished as brave soI.
dlery as ever faced n cannon or rat
tie ut mnsketry has turned deaf ear
I'd the plfeous cries of her old worn
out soldiers, or let one of them die
without proper care? I, as a son of
one who has long since responded To
the last "roll.call, /" would be unyrute-
inI I'd his memory, it / should prove
reereant in my duty to his comrades
in arms.
other Southern States, not near so |
r"ii as Lonisiana in natural reso,,,Y.-
ps- have lar surpassed her i'm unkino
for the cause SO near
ana de''rfo the Southern heart. I'll
elected, | shall do everything in nv
power to see that no Confeder,t e soii-
Her IN the State goes uncared for
aud that suitable monuments mark
me graves of those who fell in defense
d their homes. l, forone, think that
louisiana has waited long enouvh RI
NOW to the outside world her appre-
nation OF the bravery md heroism of
ne LotiIsinna troops who fell i'm the
OF the battle on every field
rom Bull Run to Appomattox.
HE grandest monument that adj
rms the battle field of Chickamauya
nj they are many, was placed there
everai years ago by the State of
eorgla IN memory of her fallen he
oes VINO lost their lives in that ter
Die battle. How long shall Louisi-
ma wait before she follows the lead
her sister States in this great
luse?
1 am opposed togambling in every 4
riii, from the simple game of craps
the New York Exchange. The the
y ct it all is to get what the other
low has by Unfair means without
lything in return therefor. The nm
spected victim loses what he has
~ IN his mad effort to retrieve his
80, stakes what does not belong To
n and loses it, thereby becoming
embezzler only to occupy a felon's
! or fill a suicides grave. We pity
e poor fool and wonder what cans
him to fall. The answer is plain.
), no doubt, was reared hy honest
rents and started out with a BRIGHT
ure before him, but he comes in
ntact with these Internal devices
lch the State permits to RIM at =
ge, and Is swallowed up before he -
'llzes his peril. 1t is the duty Of
State to remove the cause and the {
| will cease. an
10 my mind the ''bncket shop" IL WI
worst form of gambling that ever s SO!
ested country. The small town tio
Its bucket shop and the city VIZ
its exchange" whose chief aim
o control the price Of our wearing rec
oarel and food. Supply and de, COZ
no once regulated the price of farm .ne
ducts, but this funda mental prin. oet
al OF political economy Inns been 10
gated to the rear and n handful
took gamblers on Wall street has
en- ifs place. The farmer Is forced :,
'e'l hisproducts at whatever price +
nx ON it, no matter what the ed
OF production is. | am in favor =
uch legislation as will take the
essaries OF life out of the hands Of r
gambier and place it back where ira,
elJDgs. think the farmer shonld aut
e the same privilege OF putting 4 10 y
e on bis products as the miner ca !;
manufacturer. der'
ear,
iMMiGRATION. dres
i'n'Sration OF the right kind mt and
Time Is one 0f L0uisinna's great Ual,
isesis- The State is fairly teem- pro!
Wit, natural resources Whiting to SAID
eveIoped by capital and labor the
have the finest soil and climate ,,, v.'
:, i"'uS,fids anu thou last
Is OF acres of land lie idle waiting
oHIe one to clear and cultivate
immigration should be encourng- -
me State shonl,l send immigrn-
agents to the older states and Tt
orth Central Europe for the pur- tray
OF advertising our State and COW
ting How OF immigration. * J
u we want is an immigrant that ~, Jde
mike a good citizen. Our ex- r;v rt
nee with people who inhat,it that s,.s,,