The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-07-14
THE STATE PRESS.

of the present General Assembly is in sight
and we haven't even the consolation of
being able to say cit might have been
worse" for it couldn't have been, even If
had tried.
Thibodaux Commercial Journal: The
Board of Equalization is, as we have al
ways said, superflous, ridiculous and abso-
lutely unessential, and is one of the great
est sinecures in Louisiana-the hotbed OF
sinecures.
Mansfield Enterprise: If Gov. Lambre-
mont will call an extra session of the Leg
islature, restricting their duties to repeating
all the recent session did, then and in that
event, he will be unanimously ordained a
public benefactor.
Colfax Chronicle: Jack Johnson, negro
slugger, whipped Jim Jeffries, white slug
ger, at Reno, on July 4th, and now it is to
be hoped that decent people can find some
thing else in the newspapers except about
them and their kind.
Mansfield Journal: The Legislature adj
journed last night. A few of the laws made
by the body will stand the test of popularity
and, doubtless, are constitutional, but is is
to be regretted that some meritorious bills
failed of passage. That the appropriations
were too liberal and not in proportion to the
needs of the beneficiaries is a well-grounded
complaint against the body.
Homer Guardian Journals: As stated
before the present Legislature has accom-
plished but little save to create an enormous
expense bill against the State. Not sin
gle measure of reform of consequence was
passed, though several additional offices
were created and salaries of others raised.
There were several bills proposed that
would have reduced expenses, but thew
were unceremoniously stored away in COM
mittee rooms to sleep the long sleep that
knows no waking.
New Orleans Picayune: The New York
World, which has been looking up the
figures of past appropriations and making
comparisons, finds that during the four
years of Grover Cleveland's second ad-
ministration the total appropriations made
by Congress amounted to S1,795, 998, O18.
During the last four years of Roosevelt,
Taft and my policies" the total appro-
priations made by Congress amounted to
IS, 1856 ,O29,262. This is more than double
the Cleveland appropriations, an increase
Of nearly S2,0OO,0OO,0OO.
Pollock News: The people of Louisiana
WALTZ 10 eject all their OhcerS, and the
creation of appointive commissions, no
matter what their nature may be, is re-
pugnant to the wishes of the State, and the
News predicts that the Hardtner bill will
never become alaw.' We already have had
a taste of conservation under another
named in our State Board of EQualizers.
and that has proven the most costly expert
ment-to the small tax payers-that this
State has ever tried, and it is not likely
that they will soon vote for another dose
out of the same spoon.
Dodson Times: Just before the next
State primary election the voters in each
country parish should hold a mass meeting
or convention and adopt platform of their
own for legislative guidance, and then elect
men who will pledge themselves to live up
to instructions. At the same time impress
upon the minds of the men selected the
Importance, for the benefit of their health
and social welfare, that if they, swerve
from the straight and narrow path, it will
be best to vote for themselvee transporta-
ton to and citizenship in Honduras instead
of returning home after adjournment.