The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-14
OUT in THE STATE WITH THE EDITORS.

New Orleans Picayune: Sooner or later
somebody is going to be punished for rail-
road slaughter, and it will be just as soon
as the people shall learn their duty in the
matter.
Dodson Times: What do you think of
man who will sit down to the table three
times day, and thank the Lord for bread
which he has swindled some poor man or
beat his grocer out of
New Orleans Picayune: The popular
and powerful determination to reduce the
railroads to some sort of discipline that
will force them to give their customers de-
cent treatment is sure to succeed, and that
at no distant day.
MansfeldJournal: Judge Watkins broke
the record for accomplishing quick results
as member of Congress Saturday. He
introduced and had passed and signed a
bill in one day. The bill extends the time
for building bridge at Shreveport.
Lake Charles American: Improvement
is the order of the day all over Louisiana.
Every town is making advances in public
utilities; drainage canals are being con-
structed, school houses built and paving
and sewerage systems installed.
Lake Providence Banner. Democrat:
General Jastremski is out in platform
in the last issue of the People. We doubt
if the Generals platform will put him any
nearer the Governors chair than he is to-
day. His declaration for 2-cent railroad
fare doesn't amount to anything-it has
got to come, it makes no difference who is
Governor of Louisiana,
Claiborne Guardian Journal We are
friendly to immi grafton; but when it comes
to foreign immigration, we would be bit
particular. We cannot sympatize with the
efforts of some to overrun the country with
the scum of the old world just to secure
cheap laborers, regardless of the quality
of citizenship. We want immigrants that
will make good citizens and become home
builders.
Mansfield Journal Two-cent railroad
fares have been made political issue in
Mississippi. One candidate for railroad
commissioner is out in letter addressed
to the voters of the State in which he makes
the 2-cent fare proposition his chief plank.
Two-cent fare clubs have been formed in
various parts Of the State and all candi-
dates have been called upon to line up on
the question.
Mansfield Journal: We wish to call at
tention of parents to the necessity of their
seeing that the names of their children
are enrolled with the Assessor who is now
taking the school census. The State bases
its appropriation for the schools on the
number of children enrolled, therefore it
is very urgent that all children of school
age be enrolled that our schools may get
the benefit Of as large an appropriation as
possible.
Lake Providence Banner Democrat:
Governor Blanchard has declined the in
vitation to appoint commission of three
from Louisiana for the purpose of discuss
ing and studying the race question. The
Governor will have nothing to do with the
Southern Commission, and will not appoint
delegates from this State to the suggested
conference. The Governor believes that
the movement is unwise and fraught with
possibilities of evil. Rev. John E. White,
OF Atlanta, Ca, suggested the appointment
of with Iolo III ! H.,
the Governor from the different Southern
States for the purpose of discussing the
relations between the whites and blacks.
We believe the Governor is right, and if
there was not SO much aggitation by SEN
sational papers and such men as Rev. j. E.
White, there would be little heard of the
race question.
Mansfield Enterprise: Our Parish
School Board, at its last meeting, set aside
the rule of the State Board of Education,
which required the Parish Superintend-
ent to devote his entire time to school af-
fairs. The Parish Board by resolution
declare that they make no such require
ments, and have thus fairly locked horns
with the State Board, and as some one has
to back down, we will soon see just what we
shall see. 1t is pretty fight, but so far as
we are concerned, we hasten to say that
the Parish Board is right, which we are glad
to be able to say, as it is the first time that
we have been able to do such thing since
they have been in office. The Parish SUPER
intendent is creature of the Parish School