The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-07-06
BENTON, La,
Our Thirty-FOurth Anniversary

yolume-on account of its suspension
from September 27, 1852, to April
16, 1866, for want of ink and paper
The Bossier Banner celebrated its
thirty-fourth anniversary last Satur-
day, and it takes advantage of the
occasion to express once more it's
strong. appreciation of the cordial
sympathy and earnest support which
il has always received from the good
people of Bossier to whose service
it has. been devoted. The public sup
port and sympathy began with its
initial number and have continued
through all these thirty-four years
because the Banner has always been
published for the people. 1t has been
from the outset emphaticallY the pa
per of its people, and they have nat
urally recognized this fact, and have
been in return as loyal to it as it has
been to them.
The Banner began its journey poor
in this worlds goods, and rich only
in the purpose to uphold correct
principles and to advocate policies
which would result in moral and ma
terial improvement. In short, it be-
gan with right principles and has
maintained them ever since. Its ed
itor believed that newspaper, as
well as an individual, should have a
moral standard, and he has acted up
to that belief. Honesty, purity, in
dependence, fidelity to truth and JUS
tice have been its guiding principles,
and have been dearer to it than con-
siderations of expediency or popular
ity. The result has been that the
popularity which it would not pur-
chase by sensational, dishonest or
unclean methods has been bestowed
upon it as the public tribute of re-
spect.
In the matter of poverty the Ban
ner has steadily held it's own. It has
enjoyed all the blessings that come
from straitened circumstances. Fail
ing iowa fat, it has refrained from
Kicking, as Jeshurun did. 1t has
moved along in its quiet, unpreten.
tious, hardrun way-thanking heaven
for the occasional opportunities it has
enjoyed of breaking its fasts,, and for
its humble housing from. the storms
and tempests of winter. L its, oat
look in these lines should get no
worse, it will not complain.
On Friday, July /, 1859, when its
journalistic career began, in. his
Salutatory, the youthful editor of the
Banner said:
"We go in soul and body FOR the
best interests of the South, and oil
measures calculated to- promote bel
future good welfare"
It's editor has more experience
and possibly little more wisdom
than fell to his lot then, but or
this line, the, Banner stands to
day where it stoodwhen its,frst issue
came forth limp from the press. II
has never failed to uphold the sover.
eighty OF the States, and has done
what it could to arrest the growing
evils of Capitalization and one-man
power. The principles and the meth.
eds which it advocated them, because
it believed them to- be right, it still
advocates. It has never in oil its life
supported either man or measure ex.
eept from conviction of right; and il
does not intend in all its future to be
influenced in its advocacy by less
worthy considerations.
The Banner has made many warm
friends, whose favor and kindness
have been sacredly treasured up. II
has also made some enemies. 1t con.
tents itself with. the reflection that
friends that are TO be made or retain.
ed only through the sacrifice of hon
estly entertained opinions are no.