The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-09
THE STATE PRESS.

last legislature went the limit IN making
new offices-sinecures for the faithful.
Louisiana Democrat: The public health a
was about as we'll preserved before the \
institution of health boards, as it has been
since. t
Lake Charles American Press: The
State Board of Health bids fair to be
blessed relief, inasmuch as it distracts our s
attention from the State Game Commission. t
New Orleans Times Democrat: The
"primrose path of dalliance" has but one !
goal. For the race and for the individual
alike, "plain living and right thinking" is
the divine law.
Point Coupee Banner: 1t is privilege
and pleasure for any district to have such
an energetic representative as Mr.. Il. Z.
Wickliffe has proven himself. Young,
energetic and aggressive, he is always
alive to the interests of his people, making
in the strictest sense an ideal representa-
tive of all the people.
The manner in which the criminal laws
of the State are enforced seems to indicate
that the purpose of the Courts is to punish
the tax payers with excessive burdens, in
stead of the criminals who violate the law.
Mansfield Enterprise. Public opinion is
as much to blame as the Courts for the lax
enforcement of the criminal laws in this
State.
Shreveport Caucasian: There being no
opposition to Mr.. Sandlin, his nomination
is equivalent to his election, which is to be
ratified by the voters of the district at an
election fixed to be held on February 21st.
The nominee and the judge-to-be, Hon.
J. N. Sandlin, is we'll qualified, being we'll
informed in law, with practical experience
at the bar, and as progressive citizen and
a splendid gentleman.
Thibodeax Commercial Journal: There
are some boards that really seem to have
been created for the express purpose of
accommodating attorneyships, not other
wise paid or employed. If this State had
less attorneyships more money could be
spent for the benefit of the public, rather
than for the benefit of an army of do moth
ing individuals. The people of the State
realize that attorneyships are overburden-
ing as we'll as overtaxing the finances OF
the State and are of the opinion that both
should be abolished to great extent, ii
not entirely. There are ten men in every
position that one man could fill with ease.
If our memory is not at fault it was a
citizen of Mississippi who organized the
first club of boys for the purpose of slim
lating the movement to increase the pro-
duction and improve the quality of corn.
At any rate Mississippi boy was among
number of others who received a certificate
from Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture, for excellent work in corn
: raising.-New Orleans States. The States
is correct, but when the campaign opens
for State Commissioner of Agriculture we
expect to see the School Ring claim all the
glory of the work of the Louisiana Corn
Clubs as the sole inspiration of its candi-
, date for that office.
St. Landry Commoner: The State boss,
by virtue of his personal power of appoint
y
y attorneyships, of many game wardens,
and numerous levee boards and boards of
! public institutions, and of many sinecures-
which mean soft jobs at full pay and no
work-has used that personal power to
! mould the ward boss and parish boss, to
his will, and enable one man to dictate the
policy of the State of Louisiana and the
city of New Orleans, to dictate to boards,
the employees they should select, and 60
even beyond that, by naming his own sue
cessor, as we'll as every man on the State
a and city ticket. No monarch of old Europe
d would attempt in this day to do as much,
8 and the people of this State are solely to
# blame for this condition of affairs, which
n is due to their apathy and neglect.
st. Landry Commoner: The conserva-
:. ton scheme of the Sanders administration,
It now that all of its ms and outs are becom-
ing known to the general public, is meeting
8 with the condemnation which it so richly
IS deserves. That it is graft, pure and
simple, no one denies, and steps have been
n taken by at least one operator in the Caddo
oil field to fight the collection of the in
d famous conservation" tax which the law
T. imposes on oil, salt. lumber, etc. No one
70 with the least discernment thinks for a
IS moment that the manufacturers of lumber
). the oil producers and others who come