The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1914-01-17
Insolent Assumption and Impairment
Abuse

from Grant parish, under the
guise of interest and concern fol
the settlers in their controversy
with the railroad, breaks into
print in the Pollock Progress.
News of last week. and, in his
pretentious anxiety in their be.
half, he is pleased to be insulting
and offensive in his reference tc
the editor of the Cclfax Chron.
icle. entirely without cause OF
provocation on our part. He un-
necessarily, and with apparent
intent to affront and offer indig-
nifty, refers to US as Benedict
Arnold. in connection with our
treatment of the settlers claims
for homestead on the Backbone
Land Grant. Amongst other i'll
natured and absurd comment he
has this to say:
Just so with our distinguished
friend VINO did run well for a
while, and published many arti-
cles and made many arguments
in favor of the settlers cause,
but now he turns his back on
them calls it a thread worn"
subject pleads prescription un-
der one Act and pleads the bal
ance is to be determined by the
courts. Notwithstanding the ia
nous suit 16, which has been
standing IL years. while our peo-
pie have been robbed, intimidat-
ed and forced to give up in the
unequal struggle against the pow
er of the almighty dollar.
Traitors, grafters and thieves
are pleasant names compared
with what | have in mind for
men who know the business of
the settlers cause, but, for the
sake of a few measly dollars and
revenge, turn traitor, face about
and say the old fellows have over
slept their rights, and did not
make claim in time through their
own carelessness, thus losing
their chance to secure title to
their homes. And they cannot
point to single Act of Congress
that will bear out such contention.
Il defy the world to prove by
argument or otherwise that there
has ever been a limit set to the
time in which the settler could
make his claim of record and be
entitled to hearing"
1t is not true that we have ev-
er plead prescription for or
against any of the settlers. Our
position now is exactly what it
was twenty-five years ago. We
contend that every settler who
has any shadow of right. wheth-
er legal or moral, should have it
maintained; and we believe will
have it maintained before the u.
S. courts before another season
rolls around. Whenever Mr..
Hart or any other man asserts or
assumes that the editor of this
paper, for the sake of money or
revenge, has turned traitor to
any part of the people, or has
surrendered or given up to any |
principle except what we believe
to be just and right, the assump-
ton is purely and simply gra-
tuitous and unauthorized lie.
We have given up nearly all the
earnings of a lifetime battling for
what we believed to be right, and
shall continue to do so to the end.
Mr.. Hart, through what we
have been forced to believe are
interested motives of self profit,
has, we fear, led a good many ig-
norant but well meaning people
to go to trouble and expense
about what they thought were
homestead rights that could be
maintained by some sort of legis-
lative patchwork by Congress.
MIR. Aswell now has a bill before
Congress on the subject, which
Mr.. Aswell will work for because
the people ask it; but we do not |
believe III will eyar r,rova 70 h. e