The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-08-08
THE STATE PRESS.

New Orleans States: The Federal courts
are made use of by great corporations to
override all attempts at governmental reg
ulation and control.
Grant Parish Democrat: We have a
surplus in the treasury which the needs of
government do not require. With it we
should pay up our debts.
Alexandria Town Talk: Very little
politics is being talked here at present.
Our people are sensible-they are waiting
for cool weather before commencing their
gesticulations.
New Orleans Picayune: Itcost Louisiana
S5,039.06 to provide military protection at
the Hahnville trial. The Shreveport as
saut case required an expenditure of
$1,000 for soldiery.
Alexandria Democrat: We need no
militia. The posse comitatus and volun-
teers are amply sufficient to suppress vio-
lence and assert the supremacy of the
civil Authority, when it has been defed,
imperiled or sought to be overthrown.
Crowley Signal: When all this criminal
and pauper labor that our immigration
authorities are hustling for arrives and is
put to work, what shall we do with the
negro? 1t is nonsense to talk about the
negro emigrating. Nobody wants him,
and besides he realizes that he is treated
best here.
Mansfield Journal: We need no State
School Board with it's autocratic methods
and pompous interference with home rule.
A State Superintendent, with laws to gov
ern him in the discharge. of his official
duties, is the only officer needed at the
head of the schools. 1t is to be hoped the
school law will be revised at the next
session of the legislature. 1t is too cum
bersome anyhow.
Lake Charles Press; The New Orleans
newspapers are Justified in feeling indig-
nant at the manner in which their repre-
sentatives were treated by some of the
officers of the State militia at Hahnville.
1t is strange, but nevertheless an undenia-
! BILE fact, that if you clothe some men with
the slightest yestige of authority they be-
gin swelling up until they are arrogant,
unreasonable and altogether obnoxious.
Referring to the Black Hand kidnapers
who murdered the Lamana child, the
Claiborne Guardian-J journal says: There
should be no room in this country for for
eign criminals of this character. But Col.
| Schiller, our State Commissioner of Immi-
grafton, is in the old world right now and
will visit Italy before his return, and will
doubtless be able to induce more members
of the Black Hand to immigrate to Lou
isiana.
Sabine Banner: The danger that
threatens this country from the open door
policy as applied to the offscourings of
European emigration must be realized soon
by our lawmakers or it may be too late.
Good emigrants should be welcomed, but
there is no place here for the propagation
of the damnable system of organized
blackmail, pillage and murder which is
practiced so extensively by the worst class
of Italian immigrants.
Claiborne Guardian Journal Partisan
and factional politics ought to have no
place in our system of education. But it
is said that politics and education are badly
mixed in some of the parishes and we have
no reason to doubt the correctness of the
statement. In fact, we are morally salts
fled that it is true. What can be done to
cure this deplorable state of affairs. Surely
a remedy can be found and applied. We
think that elective school boards will help
cure the evil. Our teachers must not be
the appointees of politicians. The people
of every community ought to be permitted
to choose their own teacher or teachers
through local board selected by the peo-
pie of the community. The only restric-
ton upon the local board should be that
the teacher chosen is qualified.
Compulsory Education.
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