The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-06-10
THE STATE PRESS.

Assumption Pioneer: If you want the
world to be square with you, you must
first get square with the world.
Mansfield Enterprise: All hunting Ii
censes expired on May 18th, and you will
have to step up to the Captains office and
pay another dollar before you can kill any
more of the States game. The hungry
boys have spent the s125,OOO you gave to
them last year, but they are getting hum
cry again, and their insasiate appetite
calls for more and more bloody money to
be wrung from the tax-burdened people.
However, there seems to be no help for
you, and you can only pay up and look
cheerful.
Mansfield Enterprises The Game Com
mission has fixed the license for any hunter
who sells game, at $40. This is an out
rage, for in the smaller towns, where there
are no regular game markets or market
hunters, many small school boys sell part
of their game to pay their 81 license and
buy their ammunition, when they hunt on
Saturdays and other school holidays. To
thus wontonly break up their sport, is an
absurdity, that can only bring the Com
mission and the game law into such de-
gree Of contempt as to lead the people to
annul the same by refusing to sanction it's
enforcement.
Monroe Star: 1t is the logical and plain
duty of every one to patronize home en-
terprises first, if it is possible to obtain
what is needed. But, there are two sides
to this question, and the Star proposes to
be very plain and call attention to both
sides. Some of these merchants who COM
plain the loudest about business going to
the Email order" houses, are guilty of
sending away for work and material that
can be had right here in Monroe, at prices
that are lower than elsewhere, .freights
considered. Stop minute, Mr.. Merchant,
and consider the matter. Do you, Mr..
Business Man, practice what you preach.
If not, sir, suppose you get the mote out
of your eye before going about complain
ing. There is an implied obligation resting
upon all of US to patronize home concerns.
Let's live up to this principle Of good citi-
zenship.
New Orleans Democrat: There
are worse things than political solidity,
which is no more crime South than it is
North, OR East, or West. A handful of
white men in the Southern States may be
misled by the plea for ''a strong opposition
party others may be caught by the lure
of the political fleshpots, but we believe
that the great majority will refuse to sub
scribe to a.political faith which persistently
clings to the Infamous reconstruction policy
as one Of its articles, and as persistently
bids for the purchasable negro vote at
every election. When the political status
of the negro has been finally and fairly
and nationally fixed, at the demand of the
decent white voters of the North who have
learned, by contact with the negro his
racial defects and limitations, then, and
not before, it will be time to talk of an
unsolid South.
New Orleans Picayune: 1t makes no
difference by whom or what the war was
started. Just as soon as there was any
invasion of a Southern State by Northern
army, the best and bravest of Southern
manhood took the first arms in reach and
stood for the defense of their homes and
country. The Southern cavalry that rallied
to the call of their country went out armed
with the shotguns with which they had for
merly hunted squirrels and quails, and
they used them until they could, as they
did, secure carbines and Colts revolvers
from the enemy. Whatever blame may
be laid on the Southern statesmen and
leaders for not submitting to the despotic
demands of sided sectional Govern
ment, the men who made up the great body
of the Southern fighting force deserve only
the highest praise for patriotism and heroic
courage and devotion to home and rights.
This is what should be taught in our schools,
and, above all, the falsity of the statement
that only the slave owners did the fighting
should be strenuously shown. The 900, OOO|
Southern soldiers met and fought from first
to last 100000 Northern soldiers, more
than four to one, and they demonstrated
their American and Southern manhood.
AN ANCIENT DEED.-There is on file as
an exhibit in an old lawsuit in Circuit Clerk
GoOdman's office deed that is real curl