St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-03-08

force the police jury to accept
his proposition. When the time
came for the bidding on the con
struction of roads, he would
help St. Landry in every manner
shape or form, to secure better
highways, without any compen-
sation whatever, from the hands
of the Police Jurors. That when
it was time to start a good roads
campaign, he would go in every
voting precinct, in the parish of
ST. Landry, and try all that talk
ing could do.
He is interested in the well
fare of Louisiana and by his
many speeches throughout the
State has done wonderful good to
his people. He is an authority.
on good roads and is willing to
lend all his knowledge and ener-
gies to bettering the thorough.
fares of the State in general.
St. Landry will eventually
have good roads, and a hard
fight will be made to obtain them,
no matter if it takes ten years to.
accomplish it. There is no rea-
son why this Parish could not do
like other progressive parishes
of the State and give its citizens
good substantial highways, which
water could not injure.
Mr.. Sanders, however, is of
the opinion that the fundamental
principle of road building, is to
have good drainage and the only
way to do that is by scientific
methods, in order to know the
exact rainfall of this parish and
have enough laterals to take the
water away, as soon as it falls
from the heavens-not the next
day or next week.
The craze, wF;:cch is going all
over the Unifeu SIat S, seems to
have struck Opclsusas, and this
craze has come to stay as losag as
this parish does not have better
and modes of faciHitat-
ing transportation to and from
the towns
With the $25, 000.O0 that st.
Landry spends annually on its
roads it could capitalize this sur
plus and issue bonds for ten
years. thereby having enough
money to build some fifty miles of
rainproof, travessable and lasting
roads. When this is done, good
roads would be appreciated and
instead of the Police Jury trying
to get better roads the people
would. of their own accord,
obtain means of constructing
some Til through heat eeat the tthlae parish
Now is the time for action, and
decisive action, too. Something
must be done to better the pre-
sent situatiun and must be done
at once.
Every man in this parish with
the interest of his community and
his felloW-citizens at heart,
should feel in duty bound to
something to accomplish this
worthy cause A thorough cam
paignis necessary all who can be
Of service to attain this end
should busy himself to advancing
it, SO that when a tax is voted it I
will not be turned down by the
people of this Parish
In securing better roads, lands
that one can scarcely give away,
much less sell, would demand
fabulous prices and prosperity
would make its advent in st.
Landry, with a determination of
staying with it's people as long
as the earth..rolls on. This par
ish is not one hundredth time as
prosperous as it could be. 1t is
rich, but all it's riches are latent
and awaiting something which
would make them of use to this |
country. Louisiana has the
greatest resources Of any state
in the Union, but it is a sure /
thing that these resources can
not be of advantage to it's in
habatantss unless these inhabi-sE
tants are of the class to dosone- /
thing and not let the others doit !
while they are mere lockers on.