The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-05-11
State Press Comments.

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D dali, when he said on the witness
stand in the trial of land case a
Baton Rouge that he had to com
municate with the chief clerk in tn,
: land office most of the time on officia
matters, rs the register spent about
tw0-thirds of his time in New Orleans
: A number oil our citizens have visitet
Baton Rouge on business connected
the land office, but they never found
the register there. Register Crnndal
should resign. He does not attend
to his official duties as he should
The office of land register is too i'm
portant to be occupied by "A figure
head, even if he does belong to he
royal family. Mansfield Journal.
The south is very fast becoming Il
u prohibition country. A liquor
trade paper recently pointed out
that twO-thirds of the nrea Of this
country is now closed against the sa-
loon by one form or another of pro-
hibition, and served notice that the
saloon must improve itself and keep
IN touch with the advance of public
'sentiment or it will finally have toeo
entirely. Prohibition areas increase,
but the consumption of liquor does
not significantly decrease. The rea-
son il that drinking is becoming a
social matter instead of vice.
Washington Times.
The best way to build mp town IL
to stand by every man in the place
who does right. All citizens are in
large sense partners and should not
be opponents. No matter what your
calling, the more business your rival
~ doing the more you will 20. Lee
ultimate aggressiveness in business
meanssomething quite different from
slandering OF otherwise attempting
to pull down the 0therfellow. Every
business man who treats his custom
ers honestly and courteously will get |
his share. In other words, organixa-
tion and pull all together is what |
counts in building a town as they do
in individual business. Rouge
Democrat.
: The United States Supreme Court
has decided that State railroad CON-
missioners have the power to compel
railroads to make connections. Some
competing railroads in this State ap-
parently arrange their schedules to
see how close they can miss connec-
tiOns. Now, under this new mandate
Of authority, will not the Louisiana
Commission get busy and see what it
can do in the interest of the raveling
public?-Monroe News.
Hon. Robert Brousard, the much
talked of candidate for governor, has
declined to enter the race, preferring,
to hold his position rs con-
gresham to taking his chances of
being defeated for governor.
field Journal.
The Governor of Texas has signed
a bill that bars c. o. D. shipments OF
liquors into prohibition districts.
This law exncts u tax of $1,000 on
NIL the express companies for each ,
office maintained by them in the State
that delivers C. O. d. shipments,
which ~ considered prohibitory.-Ab-
Deville Nerd ional.
When Capt. Marston first advocat-
ID the use of Paris greento check the
boil weevil, they tried to laugh him
)ut Of court, but his idea il now be-
ng adopted BY many leading plant
srs, and we notice that Mr.. John
Jenkins, president of the Shreveport q
Board Of Trade, is urging it's uee |.
among his customers and that he ,
,ses it on his own plantn tion.-M Mans .
ield Enterprise. b
Education, good roads and river
Improvement are the three most i'm
'ortant economic questions before
he American people today. The
south is vitality concerned in oil three.
.et the politicians discuss these ques- {
ions on the hustings in state and !
lati0n-the people are nightly in
erested.-Shrevrport Times.