The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-23
THE STATE PRESS.

and physical viewpoint there is no question
as to the advantage Of prohibition to the
farming element of the parish. This ex- ,
tends largely to the residents OF the towns
as we'll.
New Orleans Picayune: Until there
shall be a radical change in public opinion,
so as to demand changes in the law, there
can be no reform in our judicial methods
in criminal cases, and everything to the
contrary must fall to the ground.
Shreveport Journal: Germany's pro-
tective tariff is worked out scientifically and
administered equitably, while the American
tariff scheme is worked out for the benefit
of certain interests which keep the Repub-
lican party in power by their money con-
tributions every four years.
The New Orleans States, favoring swamp
land reclamation, says: "The work of re-
claiming them is one of the most important
enterprises that has ever been undertaken
in Louisiana and with it's completion null
tipled millions of dollars have been added
to the wealth of the State, and the greatest
sanitary triumph of the century will have
been achieve.d''
New Orleans States: AS matter of
fact the public has come to regard legal
technicalities as frauds which prevent an
honest administration of justice. A few
days ago the States called attention to a
suit for damages against telephone COM
pany which had been won by farmer who
had been thrown from a load of hay by a
sagging wire while driving along high
way, but on appeal the superior court re-
versed the verdict and judgment of the
trial court because the word Thereby"
had been omitted from the complaint.
New Orleans Times Democrat: Sooner
or later the voters will learn wisdom and
reform leaders will understand that some-
thing more than a sound cause goes to the
winning Of elections. They must pit Or
ganization against organization, avoid en-
tangling alliances with other issues, pay
less attention to oratory and more to get
ting the voters of their own persuasion to
the polls. It mnst be confessed that their
education is making painfully slow prog
ress, since they have profted so little by
4 numerous lessons. But the fact that they
are really making Roadway is attested by
occasional striking victories and the grow
ing Difference paid to reformers and reform
movements by professional politicians ;"
everywhere.
Alexandria Town Talk: When diseased
public opinion interprets the law to suit
itself, furnishes perjured witnesses for the
defense of crime and frequently enters the
jury box in the persons of men totally dis
qualified to sit in judgment upon any
serious crime which is legally brought to
their attention, we can not expect improve
ment to set in, in the moral and civic life
:, of the community, until such conditions
are changed, it is no matter whether it is
Smith, Jones or Robinson, in any town or
city in this State; until the people cease to
condone crime, cease to excuse it on such
miserable pretexts as are now frequently
, set forth in its behalf in any parish or any
:. town or in any city in this State, the same
,, drama of bloody revenge, open murder and
high-handed crime, may pursue it's bloody
way.
Mansfield Journal: In the matter of the
, enforcement of the prohibition law in dry
. parishes Judge Sorelle wisely takes the
position assumed by several others Of the
district judges of the State and which posi-
ton has met the unqualified approval Of
public sentiment and that is that the sale
of any kind of substitutes or subterfuges
is, in spirit at least, a violation of the pro-
hibition law and the permission of such
sales nullifies public sentiment and sets at
naught the wishes of majority of the
: people. This view of the question is not
: only sound law but is certainly in keeping
with the spirit of Democratic doctrine, that
). the majority shall rule and there is no sort
2 of justice in attempting to override the
4 wishes of the majority in prohibition
parish by the sale of forbidden beverage
under an assumed name. With Judge
o Sorelle on the bonch the parishes Of DeSoto,
o Sabine and Vernon will be forbidden ter
ritory for the aliases.
Too MANY LAws.-The New Orleans
Times Democrat pleads for less and better
> legislation as follows:
- cit is absurd to say that this country