The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-02-18
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SAAANSSPoiS SouS0SldAs lAC essay VI
Miss Boyson is not only inaccurate but
bristles with slurs of the South.
Crowley Signal: The game law is a
farce and the Louisiana Game Commission
is one more political contrivance which
should be abolished.
Monroe Star: Abraham Lincoln was a
great, good man-one of the greatest that
ever filled or ever will fill the presidential
chair, and that is encomium enough.
New Orleans Times Democrat: Profess
sional hunters, backed by the State Game
Commission and its special counsel, Amos
L. Ponder, fought the parish regulation,
and defeated it.
Lake Charles American: In the only
case where the protection Of game was an
issue, the Commission arrayed itself on the
side of the game destroyers and against
the game protectors. The Game Commits
sion should be legislated out of existence.
Mansfield Enterprise: To-day, February
18th, is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and
it is an occasion of great rejoicing on the
part of the people of the North. While
there is no occasion for the people of the
South being excessive in their demonstra-
tons, we can pleasantly view the fact, that
he was Southern born man, and the North
can hardly hate everything that emanates
from the south side of the Mason and
Dixon line.
Louisiana Democrat: The State of
Louisiana is rapidly becoming Russian
ized," in so far as the restriction of per-
sonal rights is concerned. We send lot
of men to the Legislature every two years,
who haven't the most infinitesmal concep-
ton of their duties to the people who send
them there, but who Immediately upon
their arrival at Baton Rouge, rack their
brains if they have any, to devise schemes
to forge shackles for the enslavement of
those who have given them political prom
inence and preferment.
Lake Charles American: John Nc
Namamra, New Orleans saloon keeper,
has been convicted of selling liquor to a
13-year-old girl. The saloon keeper of
his type, and they seem to flourish despite
the efforts of the Modern License League,
is never satisfied with the privileges the
law gives him. He is always trying to
gather in few tainted dimes by selling on
Sunday or to minors or to habitual drunk
ards, serenely defiant of public sentiment
and afraid only of an occasional strict
Judge or an officer who does his duty. He
cannot be made to understand that he
ought to obey the law as other citizens do.
And after while when the public sentiment
he has flouted and defied, rises up and
Indignantly sweeps mclear out of bust
ness, he is mystifed and amazed and can
find nobody to blame for it except the
"preaches.
New Orleans States: The marvellous
growth of the Southern States in the last
twenty five years under Democratic dom
ination and the honest and efficient gov
eminent which has sprung from it, is a
strong argument against any agitation
looking to the breaking up Of the political
solidarity of the South. Aside from the
fact that the South believes in Democratic
principles, there is no reason to think that
white supremacy which is vital to her well
fare or her prosperity would be promoted
by renouncing Democracy and throwing
herself upon the bosom of the Republican
party. It is true that there is certain
class of persons in the South who hunger
for the spells of Federal office and other
favors of the. National Government would
like to see her political solidity destroyed
and Republican governments established
in the States, but the great body Of the
people are not only content but determined
to let we'll enough alone. Observing the
efforts that certain interests in the South
are making to get share of the tariff
graft, the New York Sun significantly re-
marks that her prosperity does not depend
on tariff favors, and whether or not she
receives any benefits from the new law her
progress and wealth will continue to in
crease. et
Referring to the counting by the National
! House of Representatives of the electoral
vote for President and Vice President or
} the 10th instant, the New Orleans Picayune
says:
GAS this was Mr.. Bryan s third candidacy