The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-09-06
representative Foster Saws Dinn;no
ACT Too Drastic and Shoujd Re-
Amended Or RepeaIed---Ofher
Issues Discussed.

Issues Discussed.
10 the Citizens and Voters of ,
27th Senatorial District.
AS perhaps you may already kno
tnat am a tentative candid ate 9
the State Senate of the 9th Distri
comprising the parishes of Vim. Cal
wen and Grant, and will make the ra
IL the good people of the district fu
.ner Insist, but at personal sacrif,
to me. '"'
nelng native-born resident of Grar
parish. have always been in clos
touch and sympathy with the aor;cu
turai welfare of our hill parishes an
nave no interest to serve at this fine
except that of the struggling laborip,
man and especially the underpaid far
mer and live stock producer. The tim
Der On the lands of our parishes will
soon all be cut and gone, leaving bu,
n.ue wealth behind in the hands of ON,
citizens, and the future DEVELOPMENT
VI our mil parishes->ust necessarily be
more progressive farming methods and
'ne raising OF more and better grades
u I'VE stock. And / will saw here
Drieiiy, that in the early future thu
proposition of opening up for SETTLE
ment the vast land holdings now own
Gu oy individuals and companies in our
o'a'e must be solved by working ont
plan making it possible for anv man
WITHOUT money, but not afraid of worL
and desiring home, to be able 70 Inv
one on easy payment terms at a rea,
sonaole price and low rate interest
NO such opportunity for a Door man
exists. with land values steadily in
creasing and with sixty per cent of the
farmers of this State now renters
AND, by way of further depression from
the main thought of this article JIr
want to say here that the next Leeis. q
'ature should by all means look to the t
OF better housing of hired
aoor and the tenant families of our f
state. Some changes should be made t
o our penal system looking to the bet l,
er welfare of young prisoners and the "
unering and destitute families of MANY ii
4 our State convicts. We must pro. fc
ion fof sha esHfiBK daRaee and aceQmda re
tate, many of them now being con- 81
ned in the parish jails, receiving little IL
ttention or medical treatment. Fur ID
her, the speedy enactment of special a'
nd regulatory laws governing oil and o'
ipe line companies now operating in -
n extensive way in this State, extract Ic
,g large profits from our great natu- nj
al resources of oil and gas. and in my N
pinion not giving back to the State y
air share of the immense profits real r
led for this privilege. The Oil and u
as companies should be made to bear o.
larger share of the tax burdens of l
ur State, and the Legislature at its u
ext session should pass laws making oe
! impossible for the big oil companies d'
o freeze out the little independent 10
roducers, who usually are first to in al
est and prove profitable field. and al
hen find that they have no market or al
frcilities. m
Getting back to the main subject, is
therefore,, three greatest problems be- IN
ore US today, in my judgment, and the
'hole people of Louisiana, are, first, al
be building of comprehensive system pr
f good roads, thus affording the great if
ural population better means of travel al
nd for the transportation of farm and fe
erishable products to market; and, li'
urther, so to speak, bring the towns tn
nd country closer together. The in re
crest of both coordinate. and one is til
ssential to the prosperity and happi- til
ess of the other. oc
The second great problem now con- tt
ronting our farmers is the better pre- in
aration and conservation of our soils, or
mailing US to raise more grain and a
eed crops, hence more attention and of
reater provision for agricultural edu- di
alton, but not necessarily confined to 81
he four walls of school house. al
This brings US to the third PROPOSE in
ion of much Importance and of vital bl
interest to every farmer, and that is, tn
we stock. The cattle phase of the ly
we stock problem l desire to discuss al
( greater length in this article. Our pl
ange cattle have not been up to the al
tandard in size and quality for lack of W
etter breeding and more feed through e,
he winter months, the handicap of the tn
attic fly and the "shingle" or Texas pl
ever tick. The tick side of the cattle
'roblem desire to discuss in detail. pt
n 1891, % years ago, Louisiana and in
he other southern States were quaran- m
mod nv the Bureau of Animal Indus l.,