The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-10
THE STATE PRESS.

THE STATE PRESS.
Claiborne Guardian journal: Another
year we must raise more live stock, more
feed stuff and less cotton.
Monroe Star: Respect the Shattuck law
and the rights of others. Society has the
right to expect that this as we'll as all other
laws shall be enforced.
Monroe Star: Talk about splitting hairs
on the 300 foot provision of the Shattuck
liquor license law-perish the thought.
Just let the churches and the schools move.
Shreveport Times: Louisiana is the
land of opportunity. Those of US who fail
to see the advantages that lie all around
US have only to wait when others will see
them and profit by them. 1t is with our
land resources to-day as with our timber
resources few years ago. The men who
made the most money out Of Louisiana
timber came to Louisiana from the depleted
pine forests of Michigan and Wisconsin.
We slept on our birthrights then and there
is danger that we may continue to slumber.
Shreveport Caucasian: Justice as rule
is firm, even-handed and fair, but what is
called law is indefinite, It's possibilities for
turning loose red-handed criminals on a
civilized community is unlimited. How
ever, at the risk ofincurring the displeasure
of some pettifoggers whose ambition may
be more towards the defeat of law than the
triumph of justice in criminal trials, we
would say that what is needed and needed
more than so much law are few first class
hangings in the State OF Louisiana.
Verda Tribune: Awoman of this vicinity
who was great tale bearer happened to
hear one neighbor speak slightingly of
another and Immediately carried the words
the first to the second neighbor, claiming
that she thought she ought to let the second
neighbor know what the first was saying.
But instead of thanking the tale-bearer,
the neighbor said: It makes no difference
to me how many rotten eggs my neighbor
has on his premises, but the person who
carries the decayed hen fruit to my house
and breaks it under my nose is my enc
N.Y." A sermon in an egg-shell.
Monroe Star: This morning Messrs.
H. P. Berry and w. L. Thomas of the eighth
ware were visitors to this office. Mr.. Berry
informed us that he had not sold single
bale of either his last or this years cotton
crop; that he had not bought peck Of
meal or a pound of meat in twenty years,
that it has been ten years or more since he
has bought gallon of molasses. Mr..
Thomas said that this year he had pro-
duced five bales of cotton on ten acres and
that each bale weighed over 500 pounds.
He stated further that he was holding his
cotton. These men live at home, and that
is what all of our farmers will have to do
to circumvent and beat the boil weevil-
live at home, diversity and cultivate en-
tensively. It's a good policy even with
the boil weevil eliminated.
Louisiana Democrat: Bryan is, has
been and always will be remembered by the
people as the same cratic Bryan, who in
1896, solemnly declared that free silver at
the ratio of Is to l, independently of the
action of any and all other nations, was
the only panacea for the ills from which
the country is suffering and that free silver
and prosperity were "twin sisters,'' which
must 60 hand in hand and that the one
could not exist without the other. They
remember him also as the same Bryan
who, at later date, when he should have
been chastened by the refining influence Of
two successive defeats, delivered himself
of speech in New York City, after his
return from a lengthy foreign tour, in
which he advocated contingently, govern
ment ownership of railroads, scheme
tending to such gigantic Capitalization OIL
power in the hands of the Federal govern
ment, that the Republicans dared not ad
vocate it themselves.
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.
Dallas News: Idle curiosity is the kind
that wOpkc sovort;poo