The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-10-04
Welsh Better For Parish Seat Site
(COntinued from first page)


iSh scat for the good of the whole
parish and not simply to boost one or
another town.
| have given this matter thorough
study and am convinced that Tie IOCa-
tion Of the parish seat ut Welsh, the
most centrally located Of the towns
seeking that honor will in every re-
spect best serve the people. ] am con
WINGED Of this not only from my study
of the situation here but ia other par
ishes as well. a few years ago when
Acadia parish was created there was
a fight similar to that now on IN this
parish for the location of the parish
seat. Rayne, which WAS Il consider
able town on the eastern border of the
parish, fought for the honor, aCvanc-
ing, just as Jennings is now doing the
facts that she was a bigger town ana
had more industries than Crowley,
which while much smaller town was
more centrally located, the people of
Acadia in their wisdom chose Crowley
aud today after some It years eXis-
tence Acadia is one Of the best parish
es in the state with population pretty
evenly diStri buted all over it, and
Crowley, the parish seat has come to
be one OF the best towns in Southwest
Louisiana of which the whole parish
is justly proud. Again in the election
just held in Allen Parish the people
have shown the same spirit of wisdom
having located the parish seat at Ober-
lin, the approximate center of the par
ISL rather than at Kinder which was
doubtless Il bigger and in many re-
SpectS IL better town, located on the
extreme edge of the parish. md in
this parish, the deciding vote came
from Reeve, town in which the peo-
pie in order to reach the parish seat
OF their choice have to pass within Il
couple OF miles of Kinder. Every
reason that could possibly exist for
locating the parish seat at Crowley
instead of at Rayne, which proved TO
be wise choice, now exists for lOcat-
ing the parish seat at Welsh instead
OF at Jennings. Every reason, even to
the fact that the town on the edge of
the parish made the principal fight for
division, exists for locating the par
ish seat at Welsh instead of at Jeu-
nlngs, that existed for the location Of
the parish seat at Oberlin instead OF
at Kinder. These are presidents tina,
may be considered in deciding matter
in this parish,
Again we all known that the parish
seat is the hub as it were about which
the settlement and industries of the
parish build up, if this hub is located
at the extreme border of the parish, i,
is bound to help build up the adjoin
ing parish rather then our own thus
the location of the parish seat at Jen
nlngs would attract people in tina
locality upon the both sides of the
river, and the benefits that ought tC
accrue to Jefferson Davis parish
would naturally be divided with Acad
ia Parish, and it would only be matte,
of time until there would be a demand
for bridges across the Mermentau tina
would make heavy addition to ths
burden of debt that the parish will O
necessity be under any way.
OF the many arguments that bav,
been advanced by both Welsh apC
Jennings for the location of the par
ish seat in these towns, am sure ever,
conscientious man will have to ADM
that Welsh has the best of it. Will
the location of the parish Seat a
Welsh in the center of the parish
there is every reason to believe tina
the entire parish would build up uni
formly. that the lands of the cente,
and western, as we'll as of the eastern
section of the parish would be en-
HANGED in value, and the taxabl,
wealth of the parish would increas,
much more rapidly than by it's loca
tion at Jennings, where the country i.
already settled up, and the value O
the lands is as high as is consisten
with their productivity.
Let Lake Arthur join hands will
the thirteen other voting precincts TIM
gave Welsh majority in the frs
primary, and give her an oyerwhelm
ing majority in the coming primary
A ClTIYEN.