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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-07-25

The tonnage of vessels in the for
eign trade entered and cleared at
Mobile has increased 345 per cent in
nine years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-07-25
The Loyalty of Democrats.

The time is not far gone, but there
is reason to fear that it is gone, when |
it was unnecessary to tell any South |
ern Democrat that the South could
not expect to secure her full rights
under the constitution and form of
Government, and be permitted to
maintain the legitimate autonomy of
her States save only through the
Democratic party. This was the
slogan, the battle cry. In the little
more than quarter of century since
Reconstruction, in the protracted,
stern and heroic, but peaceful battle
for the restoration of home rule and
constitutional rights, after the most
arduous struggle in which defeat
seemed more certain than victory,
the right prevailed. The States, one
after another, became rehabilitated,
each restored to its fullest rights in
the Union, foreign satraps were ban
ished and the people ruled. Obnox-
ious laws, enacted in prejudice and
hate and oppression, were expugned
from the statutes, and under the new
regime, peace and prosperity began
to hold sway in all the States of the
South.
1t should not be necessary now to
remind the people, who have been
the benefciaries of all these priceless
blessings and privileges, that they
owe them all to the indomitable en-
ergy, to the fearless determination
and unfaltering courage at the Dem
ocratic party. No disappointment
could shake their faith in the ri Cite
BUSINESS of the cause, and no defeat
impair their courage.
These facts were go self-evident and
the recognition of them so universal,
that until 1892 the South was solid
for Democracy. Practically she was
in the saddle again. She had her
place back in the Government, and
began to resume her mighty influence
in the control OF public affairs. Her
distinguished citizens became con-
spicuous in the lower house of Con-
gress, in the Senate, in the Cabinet,
assumed important places in the de-
partments, and abroad to-day they
are the accredited representatives of
the United States in the greatest
courts of Europe.
Republics are ungrateful, it is
said, but the people Of the Republic
are prone to become Indifferent and
forgetful. 1t would profit them to-day
to look back on the experience of
twenty-five years ago, when poverty
stalked abroad, when political dis
reimbursement, in all its odious pha-
ses, rendered the voice of the South
silent in the halls of Congress.
We can not believe our people will
be willing to jeopardize, in any way,
the fruits of twenty-five years of wise
economy, of hard labor and of heroic
endeavor.
But there have been signs of dis
cord and disintegration, which threat
en- to bring disaster upon orr country.
There is tendency to forget the
heroic achievements of the party and
to drift heedlessly, or in prejudice,
away from it.
Let us stand together!
The Caucasian of Tuesday reports
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-07-25

Money saved, Is money made. Re-
member the wide awake druggist,
Leon NJ, Carter, Shreveport, is SELL
ing goods so cheap, that it will make
you forget that the Solons in Wash
ington will do nothing to relieve a
suffering people.