The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-06-15
state Press Comments.

A special meeting of the city coun-
i'll was held Tuesday night to act on
i petition from citizens. The result
If the meeting was that an ordinance
saloon keepers to get the
consent of their neighbors within one
hundred and seventy-five feet of their
places of business to conduct the
business after the LIST of january.
and prohibiting the sale OF liquor
within one hundred and seventy-five
feet OF any church or public school,
Times.
The political situation is not de-
veloping very fast, probably because
it is so far ahead OF time, and the
people are too busy in their fields,
trying to make II crop, to warm up
in politics. Well, there is plenty OF
time yet to "whoop her up. '-Thibo-
duux Sentinel.
In the meantime the work of bring
ing settlers from other sections of
the United States to the New South
will not lag. We mean the class of
people that buy farms and settle
thereon, and till the soil-the class
that Plaquemines parish, with her
rich and fertile lands SO well adapted
to the cultivation of sugar cane, rice,
corn, truck. oranges, and otheriruits,
and her unlimited area of oyster bed
ding lands, wants to reach out Tor
more than any other class. --Plaque-
mines Protector.
There is an aesthetic side to the
good roads movement that is Of no
little Importance. Whit is drearler,
what more depressing than to drive
along a country road deep with mud
and furrowed by ruts, the water
standing in pools in the road and
where bitches ought to be?-Winn-
field Comrnde.
Baltimore canners are buying Lou
isiana oysters in hulk, canning them
and labeliug them Maryland oysters.
Wary Italians with II few delft touches
| change Louisiana cotton seed oil into
pure olive oil Molasses mnnufac-
turers UP north are buying Louisiana
blackstrap and transforming it into
sorghum syrup. Hardy Vermont
farmers are procuring our brown SUI
gar. pressing it into cakes and selling
it for 50 cents pound AS pure ma
pie sugar. Louisiana catfish, caught
in the Mississippi, ornament many d
breakfast table in the guise of Column
bia river salmon. When DIR. Wiley
stops the substitution evil, it will III
plain to everybody that LOuisians
produces most of the good thlngs
there are.-Lake Charles American.
Forget the guberDatorial candi
dates for time, and see To it thai
intelligent and progressive, as well al
honest and well meaning men repre-
sent each local constituency in TIN
Louisiana General Acknowledgements
, port Times.
1t is very likely that an effort vii
be made at the next session OF tn
Legislature for the repeal of the pol
, tax law, but it will hardly succeed
, The sentiment in favor of the law !
. strong all over the State, and the op
] position is not composed OF the RICH
3 kind of material to combat it sue
: eessfully. A man who is unwilling t
D pay one dollar for the benefit of put
: lie education, in order to secure tn
privilege of voting, is not, general
speaking, man of influence. lie
S the law stand. MANSFIELD Journal.
There are number of tax collet
I tors i'm the parish of Orleans doin
/ the work that should be done by on
1 man, and each is being paid out {
\, all proportion to the services render
!. ed. the result being that thousand
/ upon thousands of dollars are bein
q extorted from the people for til
) privilege of paying their taxes TIL
is a graft that Hon. Theodore Wi
e kinson says he proposes to see elm
mated if he is elected Governor
Monroe News.