The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-10-24
THE STATE PRESS.

/ Mansfield Journal: That State debt vii
have to be paid, and the sooner this is done
the better will it be for the State. Tht
older debt becomes, the harder it is tt
pay it.
DeSoto Progress: If people are pun.
ished hereafter in proportion to their mis-
deeds on earth, as Mr.. Holcomb contends
its going to tax the Old Boys ingenuity te
think up something sufficiently strenuous
for the man who started the souvenir posi-
card craze.
Lake Charles Press When Louisiana
begins an effort to secure immigration from
the North and East, we are ready and
willing to cooperate, but the unwise policy
of sending immigration officials abroad te
bring dissatisfied class of foreigners into
this State we intend to fight from the out
SET
| Mansfield Journal: AS rule, the coun-
try papers in Louisiana are charging can
didates and their friends five cents line
for campaign political matter. This is the
right thing to do. The papers are simply
protecting their interests and the policy
has gone long way towards keeping down
bitterness and enemity between candidates
and their friends. Campaign articles are
fewer than otherwise when they have to be
paid for.
Arcadia Argus: Fairs in North Louisi-
ana have gotten to be too numerous to be
profitable. Besides, the real intent and
purpose of the fair has been lost sight of
and shows and races have taken the place of
actual exhibits. Seen in this light, there
is small benefit to be gotten out of any of
them. The competition from now on will
be between shows, the biggest shows catch
ing the crowds and the small ones falling
by the wayside.
Referring to the States bonded debt the
Alexandria Town Talk says: If appropri-
ations were carefully and economically
guarded by the Legislature there would be
no difficulty in laying aside a fund each
year to gradually pay this bonded debt,
and taxes would not have to be increased a
single cent. If the debt was wiped out,
and the annual interest now paid on the
bonded Indebtedness turned over to the
public school fund, what a boon it would
be to the boys and girls Of Louisiana.
Mansfield Journal: We hope the move
ment which was started in New Orleans
last week for the purpose of draining and
retaining the swamp lands of the State
may be success. There are thousands of
acres of swamp, or lake bottom land, in
this parish which is exceedingly rich and
would yield immense crops. The cost of
retaining this land would not be great to
the State. In fewsyears the State would
be reimbursed in the amount of taxes that
would follow because of enhancement in
the value of the land.
Good advice from the Ruston Leader:
Respect the opinion of others. Don't for
get that your neighbor, though he differ
with you politically, may be just as honest
in his convictions as you. Don't forget
that this is a free country, where freedom
of opinion is one of the broad foundation
stones of our government and there would
be an end of that form of government
without it. Stand by your convictions, if
you believe you are right, and let your
neighbor stand by his if he is so disposed.
Argue politics if you will, but do it calmly
and reasonably, and bear this fact always
in mind, that just as you have made up
your mind unalterably as to the way in
which you will vote, others have done the
same thing and are entitled to their own
opinions.