The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-09
WELSH LOGICAL LOCATION
FOR PARISH SEAT
Geographical Center of Parish
Rapidly Becoming the Center of
Wealth and Population.

Welsh is Ia the fight to secure the
location OF the parish seat OF Jefferson
Davis parish, and she is in it to WIN.
She expects to WIN, and to WIN on her
merits. We are not going before the
voters OF the parish asking their sup
port because we have spent large
amount of time and money in the past
fighting for or against parish division.
That has nothing to do with the matter
of locating the parish seat Neither
have we any threats to make. that II we
do not win we will turn the parish
over to the enemy, the republican
party. Politics should have nothing
to do with the location Of the parish
seat. The location of the parish seat
of q parish that is destined to be one Of
the greatest parishes Of the state is too
big question, and is fraught with too
much that is OF real vital interest to the
people Of this and future gen eratlons
to be entangled with petty politics and
personal or local interests.
Nothing has or ever can come up in
this parish that will be of more vital
and lasting interstate the people OF
the parish than the locating of their
Capita city. what We are doing now
is not for today or this year or this
generation, but for all time. II inter
ests you today and will Interests
iyour children's grandchildren q
hundred years hence. 1t will be OIL
little interest to the people OF coming
generations whether parish division
was favored by one city and opposed
By another. The thing that will inter
est them will be whether the present
generation had the wisdom and unset
fshness to locate the parish seat so as
to be accessible to the greatest mum
bers with the least expenditure OF time
and money to reach it.
For this reason welsh is in this
light to WIN. We are in it because
WELSH is THE LOGICAL LOCA
TON for the parish seat. Welsh oc
cupies as near the exact geographi
cal centre Of the parish as 1t i
possible TO fine. If line were draw
from the northern to the souther
boundry Of the parish. passln
through welsh its exact centre WOul'
fall within 1900 feet Of the site til
city expects to decd to the parish TO
the erection of the court house. Shout
o similar line be drawn from east t.
west through welsh its exact centr
would also fall within approximate
the same distapce of the court hous
site.
Being thus centrally located. is a
advantage to the whole parish tina
ought not be overlooked. By lOcatin
the parish seat in parish cente
! it is possible for practically everyou
except those living in the extren
corners of the parish to go to the pa
. ish seat and transact the DAYS bus
ness and return the same day withol
@ difficulty.
2 Again the location OF the paris
|. seat in the center of the parish woul
r reduce the criminal court expense
? several thousand dollars annually
the matter of mileage fees in crimn
court proceedings. This means
reduction of your taxes, not for tn
| year only but for all time to come.
In addition to her great advanta!
of location, which is one OF par
mount Importance. Welsh has ever
other advantage to offer that h
competitor has and good many b
sides that we will tell YOU about late