The Bossier banner., 1894-08-30
Press Opinions.

LOUIS fOSt-Dlspatcn.
The man who will do anything for
money is in no danger of losing his
soul. He has none to lose.-Drover's
Journal.
President Cleveland should stay at
Buzzard's Bay until the buzzards at
Washington get out of it.-New York
Recorder.
We believe the narrow, selfish, die
tatorial fight which our Senators
have made, has had much to do with
the weakness of the cause of sugar
Claiborne Guardian-Journal.
Where were the alleged honest
tariff reform Senators when Murphy's
resolution in behalf of the trusts
passed the Senate by vote of 27 to
16?-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The fellow who suffers personal i'll.
will for candidate to unhinge his
faith in the principles of the party
for which the candidate stands is
weak er.-Sparta Ishmnelite.
It is quite evident that senatorial
greatness has been so besmirched by
fraud, jobbery and bribery that it is
no longer viewed with respect, and
awe by the humblest voter in the
land.-N. o. States.
Some of the sugar planters are
threatening to leave the Democratic
party and join the Republican party.
They tried that game in 1884 and we
have no objection to them trying it
again.-Claiborne Guardian-Journal.
There is a good deal of difference
between sympathizing with honest
workmen and sympathizing with
fakes and demagogues who borrow
the cloak of the workingmen to serve
their own evil purposes.-Houston
Post.
Congress will soon adjourn and the
people will be glad of it. That body
is not held in as high regard as in
former days, which fact can be attrib-
utable to machine politics. Broad
patriotism appears to be an unknown
quantity to many of the members.
Mansfield Democrat-Journal.
The Democratic party ought not
to be held responsible for the treaeh-
cry of any of its agents. Is the
Christian religion a failure because,
occasionally, one of its ministers
apostatizes and goes to the devil?-
Throw renegades overheard, and
stand By the rty.-Sparta Ishmaelite.
| Had not the Louisiana Senators es-
pecially Mr.. Caffery, been SO dictator
rial and so unyielding in their demands
for the protection of sugar, their pet
industry would have had more friends
in Congress. They ieopardized the
policy of the party, and they cannot
now expect their wishes to be grant
ed.-Mansfeld Democrat.Journal.
The Boston Herald says of Senator
Morgan, of Alabama: "The voters
of Alabama look upon him as the
Daniel Webster of the South of the
present day and he has personality
which is something of the reflection
of Webster's, if faint one. He deals
very frankly with the people in his
speeches and is very apt to get en-
rapport with an Alabama audience.
The eight or ten Democratic OBJ
structionist in the Senate will yet be
made to rue their course in delaying
tariff action six months and ther
forcing on the country tariff which
as the Herald has repeatedly shown
will take out of the pockets of the
people at least $1,25O,0O 10000 pei
annum, not as revenue for the gov
ernment. but solely to enrich the "pro
tected" manufacturers and trusts
New York Herald.
Senators Caffrey and Blanchard
voted the other day, along with ths
Republicans and Populist Senators
for resolution declaring agains
further tariff legislation at this ses
: sion. They also voted with the Re
publicans and PETER, Kyle and Stew
art to instruct the finance committe.
to report bill providing for the con
tinuanee of the sugar bounty. Every
body knows that Democracy is op
posed to bounties, but our Senators
seem to be Democrats without an,
Democracy.-Claiborne Guardian
Journal
If the Democratic Senators who
after betraying their party and thei
country by passing the Gormal
protective" tariff, now kill th,
House bills for placing iron, coal ant
sugar on the free list, they will stane
thoroughly unmasked before th,
country as tools and allies of th,
trusts tariff-robbers. Opposition t,
! the free bills is but little less dis
creditable than that of the Gormal
ring. But if any one of these bill
.. fail it will be because of the treacher,
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