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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
THE PERILs OF PATERNALIsM.
indianapolis News. |

Indianapolis
We have had of late many striking illustrations
of the perils of paternalism And it would be
great mistake to allow the present reign OF graft to
pass without drawing some other moral than the
very obvious one that corruption is the product OF
commercialism. For there is deeper principle
involved, recognition of which will save us much
trouble in the future. It is that popular govern
ment is in no way fitted to do much more than
govern. Indeed, this is so true that it may per-
haps be said that one of the surest ways to destroy
a popular government is to extend too greatly the
sphere of it's activity.
The agricultural department, for instance, has
done great work for the people. We do not sup
pose that there is the slightest chance that its func-
tons will ever be curtailed. And yet all the cor
ruption that has developed in it has grown out of
the effort, not to govern or administer, but to do
things for the people. Possibly if it had not done
them they would not have been done. But neither
would there have been corruption on the present
scale. The furnishing of information about the
crops, the study of soils, the forestry work, and
even irrigation no part of the work OF govern
ment as government All this and much more that
might be mentioned brings the government into the
closest relations with in private business, with
men who are interested in making money out of the
government. The agricultural department., as a
whole, is most purely paternalistic. Now, we can
not get rid of the agricultural department, and are
not likely to see its functions greatly narrowed.
But one thing we do, and that is see to it that
uther steps taken on the road to paternalism
We can, if we will, stop where we are. No doubt
many beautiful programmes will be proposed to US,
and men will argue eloquently in favor of the gov
ernment's undertaking this or that work, but we
should remember that self-government is the gov
eminent of ALL by all and for ALL and that it cannot
continue to be this, if it seeks to do things for any
one class, no matter how large and influential thai
class may be. A regulating, meddling government
must in the nature of things be bureaucracy anG
a bureaucracy is always corrupt.
If we do not, as the phrase is, go backward, We
can refuse to go forward, consent to 60 forward
only very slowly. We sure that we should al
be better off to-day, both financially and morally
if we had been willing to limit our government tt
administering justice, preserving peace and order
protecting life and property, collecting and disburs
ing taxes and providing for the national defence
These are all necessary governmental functions.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
THE ROSSIER BANNER
w. H. SCANLAND, Editor and Proprietor.
BENTON, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, OCT 5, 1906.

What all persons ought to feel is that nothing will
on so far to remove the curses of corruption, vice
and greed, which to-day blight our politics and So
cety in general as the disposition on the part OF all
citizens, whether in public or private walks, to be
public spirited, to render magnanmous service to
our fellows, to conduct our business and all our
affairs SO as to give mankind the best possible SER
vice. No bargain can be permanently good one
which Yields benefits to but one party in the ex-
change. and even the man who takes an unfair ad-
vantage will be found out and in the long run will
lose il he fails to furnish equivalent. Labor and
capita must be friends, not antagonists. The ben
efits must be reciprocal; each must be willing TO
serve the other.
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THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

day last week, the arrangement being
necessary on account Of guarantees.
The Maryland Democratic Convention
has adopted platform confined to the
race issue.
The City Council Of Pensacola, Fla,
has passed the Jim Crow street car law
over the mayors veto.
A shipment OF 500 Remington rifles
was made to Havana Sunday by New
York firm "for sporting purposes
J. Walter Franklin, Salvation Army
recruit, alleged to have three living
wives, was arrested at Birmingham, Ala.
"Cotton Association Day. has been
fixed for Nov. "a at Jackson, Miss,
when the State Association will hold its
convention.
One hundred negro citizens of Mobile
Ala, have formed an organization tt
welcome President Roosevelt when hi
visits that city.
Mobile, Ala, is indignant because
Mississippi insists upon enforcing :
quarantine against that city on account
of dengue fever.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi
by invitation, will make six speeches il
Maryland in aid of the campaign TO
"white supremacy"
The hearing before the Legislative
committee investigating insurance com
panies in New York was productive 0
some surprising testimony.
The fact has been brought out befor
the New York Legislative Investigating
Committee that the Equitable, Mutua
and New York Life Insurance Companie
formed pool to control legislation i
the various states.
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louisiana.


Bear tracks measuring five inches
have been seen recently near Hadnot.
Governor Blanchard has been invited
to deliver campaign speeches in Mary
land.
The general rains over the rice belt in
this State and Texas will retard harvest
ing and threshing.
At the close of business Sept. 80, the
State of Louisiana had 81 ,N5, 827.E on
deposit with its several fiscal agents.
Three negroes were drowned while
crossing the Mississippi River in skiff
near Pointe Coupee last Friday. Three
others of the same party were rescued.
Last weeks storm did enormous dam
age in this State and Mississippi. In
many sections crops have suffered,
bridges were swept away and Other
property damaged.
On account of quarantine restrictions
and the consequent interruption Of
travel, Red River Presbytery, which
was to have convened Oct. 10, has beer
postponed to meet at Minden Nov. IA.
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WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Arkansas Gazette: That there is decrease in
intemperance is borne out by observation and
statistics
Raleigh Observer: The best money North Caro-
lima people have invested in any institutions is the
money they have put in orphan asylums.
New York Judge: "What do you think about
the tariff % "My dear SIR, said the habitual ora
tor, 81 don't think about it, talk about it,
Baltimore Sun: Miss Alice Roosevelt is sug-
gested for queen of Norway. She would certainly
keep the Norwegians guessing, and they wouldn't
have dull time.
Atlanta Constitution: Over 800 people have been
killed by automobiles in this country this year.
It is high time the of autos were organizing
for "self- protection
Montgomery Advertiser 1t is difficult to believe
that it cost Mr. Douglass $4,000 to get the office of
Governor OF Massachusetts,. We knew it was a
Republican State but had no idea the voters of
that party were so expensive
Gadsden (Ala) Times: Since the Republicans
were caught with the goods on them it is now pro-
posed to return the contributions of the great life
insurance companies and they are able to do it too,
for Mr.. Cortelyou collected much more corruption
money than he could spend.
signatlons OF life insurance officers in New York
come under the designation ''too good to be true -
Yet 1T is as certain every thing human can be
that all the companies under fire must pass through
the same purgation as that undergone by the Equi.
table before they will be rehabilitated in public es.
timaton.
Mobile Register: Retaliatory tariffs against
American manufactures are likely to drive certain
great manufacturing industries to foreign countre.
10 produce their wares. The international Haryes.
ter Company has announced its intention of takine
such step. The retaliatory tariff is the result O.
the high protective tariff of America. The Renub.
hcan party may be called upon to explain why, te
this extent, American mechanics are to be deprived
of employment.
Referring to the government of the Philippin,
Islands by the United States the New Orleans Pic
ayune says: Another matter which is insisted o,
is that only officials of the strctes honesty and in
tegrlty be sent to deal with such people. If the,
ma they are being cheated or Intentionally deceiv
ed' the orientals, being adopts in deceit and cum
nng' VIII retaliate and beat at the same game thei
rascally officials and in this connection it has bee,
well said: Whatever criticism NAV be made q
Engiand's colonial system, no one can look withou
ADMIRATION and applause at the flower of manhoo,
winch graces her positions of trust Their charac
ters are sans reproche, their ability conspicuons
their devotion to work remarkable, Thew ma,
rouse enmlty as conquerors and aliens, but the,
command respect as being upright, efficient, just.
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$25 to California.

From Sept. Is to Oct. 81, inclusive,
the Texas and Pacific Railway will sell
one-way second-class colonist tickets to
California common points at rate of s2s
from all stations west of Mineola, Tex,
and proportionately low rates from all
East Texas and Louisiana points.
Tourist sleeping car privileges may be
obtained in connection with above tick
cts at less than one-half the regular
Pullman rates. For further information
call on any ticket agent, or write E. p
TURNER, General Passenger Agent
Dallas, Texas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

Coonialism causes corruption. History aound-
antly justifes the ALTERATION The pohcy IS con-
trary to the genius Of free institutions; 1t was
against its abuses that our Revolutionary ancestors
rebelled. Hence the latest of the many Philippine
scandals is not surprising. Over S1,OOO,OOO stolen
in military medical supplies! Books falsified and
pockets lined by thieving employees OF Uncle Sam.
A sorry state of affairs, surely.
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Crimes and Casualties.


Fire in Pittsburg foundry entailed
loss between $120, 900 and $2OO, 900.
A switch engine jumped the track at
Bessemer, Ala, Sunday killing three
men.
Burglars robbed private bank of
between $1,000 and 10000 at Cairo, ILL.,,
last Thursday.
Rev. Calvin J. Racey was caught in
machinery at Whitacre, Va, and his
arm torn off.
A Memphis youth was killed with a
blow of the fist while boxing with a
friend Sunday.
| Three men were killed in a wreck in
the Louisville and Nashville yards at
Birmingham, Ala.
Fourteen persons were injured in an
electrician collision near Parkersburg,
w. Va, last Friday.
Five children were cremated in res
idence fire at Fort Dodge, Iowa, caused
by a gasoline explosion, one day last
week.
Mrs. F. J. Lewis was accidentally shot
and killed by her husband while thu
couple were hunting near Beaumont
Texas.
Congressman John N. Williamson, O.
Oregon, was one day last week convicted
of completely in land frauds on his thirt
trial at Portland.
Four persons were seriously injured il
a head-on collision between Rock Islant
passenger and freight trains at low;
City, Iowa, last Friday.
K. Nakamer, Japanese, formerly o
New Orleans, committed suicide in Ney
i York last Saturday because he was dis
| gusted with his country for making
peace with Russia.
The murder of a girl domestic, tn
suicide of business man and the assas
sination of an attorney, all the crime
. bearing upon one another, furnished
sensation for Cambridge, ILL.,, last Sat
urday.
Last Saturday, at Cambridge, Ill
Mrs. Clarence Markham murdered he
seven children with an ak and cremate
their bodies. She then suicided by cut
ting her throat and leaping upon
burning bed.
John E. Ryan, an express messenger
and Edward G. Green, his friend, Tough
pistol duel in a speeding express ca
, near Decatur, ILL.,, one day last weel
the battle continuing for twenty mile!
, Both are seriously wounded.
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Don't Be Imposed Upon.

Foley & Co., OF Chicago, originated
Honey and Tar as a throat and lung
remedy, and on account of the great
merit and popularity of Foley's Honey
and Tar many limitations are offered for
the genuine. These worthless limitations
have similar sounding names. Beware
of them. The genuine Foley's Honey
and Tar is in yellow package. Ask for
it and refuse any substitute. It is the
best remedy for coughs and colds
Benton Mercantile Company.
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The Fever Situation.

Last Thursdays report at New Or
leans was as follows: New cases, %;
deaths, 4; new foci, 8.
Friday-New cases, %; deaths, 2;
new foci, 5:
Saturday-New cases, 81; deaths, 2;
new foci, II.
Sunday-New cases, %; deaths, 8;
new foci, 4.
Monday-New cases, 10; deaths, s.;
new foci, 6.
Tuesday-New cases, 80; deaths, q;
new foci, 5.
Yesterdays report was as follows:
New cases, %; total to date, 1904.
Deaths, 4; total to date, 400.
New foci, 6.
Remaining under treatment, 1874.
Cases discharged, $500.
The situation shows but little change
and is reassuring.
To-day's Shreveport Times says that
the country cases are becoming irregu-
lar, and that the fever has been entirely
stamped out in several localities. The
reports follow:
Patterson, new cases.
Kenner, new case.
Near Bunkie, case.
Near Thibodeau, case.
Lafourche Crossing, new cases.
The situation in Mississippi is not 81
encouraging. The report from Vicks'
burg yesterday was new cases; Por
Gibson, 1 new case; Natchez, 3 new
cases. Vicksburg has had total OF IL
cases and IA deaths; Natchez, lis case
and deaths.
Ten new cases were reported yester
day from Pensacola, Fla. The town ha
had a total of 1856 cases and 81 deaths.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05
Miscellaneous,

An epidemic of diphtheria prevails at
Peoria, Ill.
Senator Proctor will endow tubercu-
losis hospital in Vermont.
English life insurance companies will
invade this country as result of recent
exposures.
With the bride standing in Lincoln
County, the groom in Amite County and
the minister in Pike County, Miss Sarah
Adams and Aubrey Toler were married
in the open air at Auburn, Miss, one
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Washington, D. C..

ed at Philadelphia, Pa, last Saturday.
President Roosevelt has returned to
Washington from his summer vacation
at Oyster Bay.
Secretary Shaw, in his address before
the Ohio Bankers Association, urged a
more elastic currency system.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has de-
clined the invitation of the Isthmian
Canal Commission to go to Panama.
Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock
has announced that local health boards
and quarantine authorities in Louisiana
and Mississippi will not be permitted to
interfere with the United States mails.
Foreign.
American capitalists will establish
factories in Hull, England.
A typhoon in tine Marshall Islands
Sunday swept 100 islanders into the sea.
France is not displeased with the new
treaty between Japan and England.
The natives in the province of Bengal,
India, are boycotting British goods.
France and Germany have finally
agreed upon the Moroccan question.
The Sultan of Turkey has granted
Germany a naval station on Thasos
Island.
Over $1OO, 900 worth of hemp was de-
stroyed by the recent typhoon in the
Philippines.
Panama will offer to pay Columbia
ST ,OW, 600 in settlement of claims grow
ing out of secession.
The Swedish steamer Robert was
sunk in collision off Finland Sunday,
and twenty persons were drowned.
Fire in the army storehouses at Hiros-
hima, Japan, Sunday inflicted a loss
between two and five million dollars.
The Marine Hospital Service reports
that leprosy is being successfully treat.
ed at Manila by the use of the X-ray.
One hundred and fifty thousand pes.
sons are homeless in Calabria Province
Italy, as result OF the recent earthquake
A coasting steamer was blown up BY
a mine ninety miles south of Port Ar
thur Sunday, and fifteen people wer'
drowned.
The movement in Russia for the re.
moval Of restrictions against Jewish
students entering universities is becom
ing general.
Late reports indicate that many live
were lost and a number of vessels SUM
by the typhoon which swept the Philip
pines one day last week.
It is said that thousands of Chimes
students are now being educated il
Japan, thus demonstrating how the lat
4 ter country's influence continues t
| grow in China.
RUSso-JAPANEsE WAR.
! Japan, it is said, concluded peace wit
Russia because the Government feare
} financial breakdown at home.
Baron Komura, the Japanese peac
envoy, having recovered from his recer
attack of fever, is now on his way bac
to Japan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

1t was predicted that Little Rock would have to
shut up shop when she attempted to enforce the
Sunday closing laws says the Arkansas Gazette,
but she is more prosperous to-day than ever before
and the Sunday closing laws are being rigidly en-
forded.
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jail for the Man With the Gun.

The man behind the gun is just the man the
country needs in time of war, but the man with
"gun'' in his ''pants" pocket is just the man the
country most needs to get rid of in time of peace
The man with the gun is the man for whom crime
is easy. Crime ought not to be made easy. 1t
ought to be made made hard A community that
deliberately let's crime be made easy is stupid
community.
None know this better than the practical men who
spend their days in endeavoring to control crime
the efficient police commanders and the earnest and
the able prosecuting attorneys.
Men like Jerome and Folk and like Police Com
missioner McAdoo of New York have urged that
the carrying of concealed weapons be made pun
ishable by jail sentence, and long sentence at
that-six months or a year. They not idealists.
They have hard common sense.-Chicagy Record.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

Texas is already the first State of the Union in
railroad mileage, it is in area in cotton and cat
tle 1t is rapidly advancing to place close to the
top in population and in the diversity of its indus
tries of the factory as well as of the farm.-.St.
Louis Republic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

The trouble with the Administration at Washing
ton is that there is entirely too much whitewashing
What is needed in the Federal departments is more
business and less politics.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

When the big corporations in the 1904 campaign
discovered they could not control Parker they are
said to have contributed large amounts to the cam
paign fund of Mr.. Roosevelt, whom they at first
OnDOSed
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

Firm conservatism, forbearance and appeal tc
sober thoughtfulness are the needs of the hour.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

Better to fail in the pursuit of the NOBLE than to
succeed in the search for the mean.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

The ST. Louis Republic says Missouri is in the
front rank as producer of authors.
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A Japanese diplomat declares that Japan would
not take the Philippines as gift. An impartial
historian will some day write that the United States
paid S20,OOO,OO0 for gold brick.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

1t is solemn fact that it took more newspaper
space to tell of the separation of Capt. and Mrs.
Taggart than it did of the same act of separation
between the countries of Norway and Sweden.
The reason of this seeming absurdty? Why, the
one was scandal and the other wasn't-Coh,u-
biz State
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

Not ALL indeed, is gold that glitters but neither
is all dross that has no polish
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

Selfshness deadens the heart and dims the eye
to all nobler impulses.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

The man who violates private trust would not
hesitate to violate public trust.-Memphis Com
mercial appeal.
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The five articles of the Japanese soldiers are
these: First to be loyal second, to be polite; third
to be brave; fourth, to be righteous; fifth, to be
simple and frugal. And the five articles are de-
liveres to him with series of straightforward
comment that concludes as follows: eff the heart
be not true, good words and good conduct are moth
ing but useless external ornaments. If the heart
be true you can accomplish anything
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

The Russian losses in ships at Port Author, Vlad-
lvostok and the sea of Japan, according to official
statistics amount to S13O, 600 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

The farmers of Kansas will soon begin the har-
est of the greatest corn crop raised in the
State. 1t is estimated that the total yield will
reach 275, 900 900 Bushels In 1889 the yield was
273, O00,0 900 bushels. Then the farmers received
only 10 cents per bushel. Hundreds of bushels
were burned for fuel because corn was cheaper
than COAL This year the price is 80 cents per
bushel. At this price the farmers of Kansas will
get about S75, 00O, 900 for the corn crop.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-10-05

President Roosevelt has ordered handsome sew
ing machine as present to the Empress of Japan.
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Advertising
ARE TWO WAYS

THERE ARE TWO WAYS
TO .adyertise-in reliable
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, way. The best way and the way
, to be assured Of results is through
the columns of the above-the-
average country weekly. A dollar
, spent in such a way brings ten
times the results it would if spent
in advertising in daily news
paper. Why?
4 Because the daily's rates are
usually from twice to four times
, that OF the weekly.
4 Because the daily is the paper
of a day, while the weekly is read
) (by each member of the family
from the day of it's publication
until Sunday night and then care
: fully laid away for reference.
T Because the columns of the
} daily belittle its customers, read
) ers and friends, while the weekly
extols them.
} 4 Because the city editor is a
I stranger in the midst of his read
ers, while the country editor is
) one of his communicate mixes
} and mingles with his readers and
knows them all.
} 4 Because readers have learned to
{ discredit much that appears in the
: sensational daily, while they have
} the same faith in the country
} weekly that they do in their best
friends.
J 4 There are other good "reasons
{ why" but space forbids.
5 T Wecall especial attention to our
{ Open-Space Contract
{ which permits of the annual adj
! vertiser using as many or as few
} inches of space as he likes in any
I particular issue. In other words,
Z a large ad. can be run when the
? advertiser feels so inclined and
{ smaller one at other times. No
I additional charge is made for
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Z than once a month.
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( tising with you. It's no trouble
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Western Commissioners will investigate insurance