St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-05-15
GOVERNORS ADDRESS
Delivered Before LoUisi-
ana Press Association.
MIR. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle

impossible to carry out the program
as arranged by your president and
committee for this occasion. None OF
us want to stay up tonight and get
breakfast just before leaving for
Bogalusa. | see that l am down on
the bill of fare to welcome the dele
gates of this Association to Covington.
presume that this pleasure has been
extended to me for the reason that |
am quasi-resident of this Parish and
of this town of Covington. It is not
necessary for me to say tnat the
people Of st. Tammany Parish and of
the Town of Covington welcome the
delegates of this Convention most
heartily. believe what we have al
ready seen and what the good people
have in store for us speaks for the
hospitality of these good people better
than any words Of mine could express.
We are glad to have you here in Gov
ington, because we would like to have
all the people of the State of LOUISE
ana know what this splendid parish
is and has and hopes to be.
In the trip you all took to-day, you
rode on the first trolley line that has
ever been built through any rural
community in the State of Louisiana.
You also took trip on one of the
fastest boats there ever was and over
one of the most beautiful and pictur-
esque rivers. You went up the most
beautiful Tchefuncta river to one of
the greatest industrial lumber mills
in this section of this State. That is
some of the few things that you have
seen in Covington and St. Tammany
Parish. If every delegate of this meet
ing would devote twelve hours a day
he would find when he left here that
there was great many of the beau
ties of this town and parish that he
had not visited. Covington is the
healthiest spot in the world, so ac-
credited and said to be by those in
authority in that line. Here they have
the pure water. and | am told, other
things to drink, and the forests are
full of ozone. e
Tomorrow you are going to be
taken to the town of Bogalusa, in the
sister parish of Washington. / don't
want to say anything about Bogalusa
tonight, tomorrow l want every man
and woman in this Convention to go
there and see this great industrial
site for themselves; you will see the
largest sawmill in the world and many
other things, but when you see them
just realize that only a few short
months ago where Bogalusa now
stands was an open forest. When
you go back home we want you to
take back with you pleasant memo
ries of your stay in our town. While
you are here everything is yours. II
you want anything and you dom have
it ask for it, because if Covington and
Covington people are renowned for
anything it is for their kindness and
hospitality.
Now my friends if your time will
permit me / will take ten minutes on
another line and another subject.
Every man and woman in this world
has a certain work to perform. There
is no duty greater and more under
paid than that of the publisher and
editor of a newspaper. Where one
man makes fortune in the business,
thousands make clearly nothing be,
yond bare living. I cannot impress
too much or too strongly upon you that
you ought to weigh carefully the
things that you put in type. YOU
ought to make up your mind fully
that the things you honestly and con
scientiously believe to be true, anc
having made up your mind of that
then publish them to the world NJ
matter what the consequences may be
nor whom they may hurt, but in max
ing up your mind let your mind be {
responsive mind so that you can cas-
aside what is bad and take what i!
good. You are the guardians of The
different members of the civilized
communities of the State of Louisiana
| Now my friends there are certain
things that are your duties, / believe
I would like to discuss with you, bu
am going to discuss but one of them
There has in recent years been in
augurated in the State of Louisian;
the idea of building good roads in thu
State, SO that one community may b.
linked with another by permanen
highways. That particular though
has enlarged and in all of this Stat
we find people eager and anxious TO
permanent highways through thei
communities. Take this one though
home with you, the permanence o
your public roads. If you want t
build court house in your parish
you figure on the cost of the building
then you calculate how much none
YOU can have to nut into q buildin
and you build it either by levying
special tax for that purpose or by in
fractions on your revenues for tie
years. What would you think of you
police juries if they decided to build
, courthouse in your parish and said W
will build it within the next ten years
We would put down the foundatio
the first year, the walls the secon
, year and the partitions the third yea
y FFER