The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-25
From Our State Exchanges

Lake Providence Banner Democrat:
These long-tail gossipers who 81 heard,
and 81 was told," should have plaster of
Paris casts put over their mouths.
Shreveport Caucasian: The Hon. John
Marks has been would be leader in the
Legislature. He is the author of the
Marks bill and other bills which have led
to many unpleasant entanglements, and in
the mixing of the public schools in politics.
Lake Charles American Press: Some
thing more than hundred Calcasieu Dem
ocrats refused Tuesday to vote for Hon.
Tom Harris, "false, fleeting, perjured
Clarence,' for Superintendent of Educa-
ton The other 1 800 exercised more self
restraint.
| Mansfield Enterprise: What Mr.. Harris
wants is one thing, but what the people
want, is an opportunity to recall Mr.. Har-
ris. There is no more disgusting charac-
ter in State politics than he and his recon-
mendatons will probably have little weight
| hereafter.
New Orleans States: In the aggregate
the we against Superintendent Harris
was by no means inconsiderable and the
fact that the manifestation of antagonism
to him was not local but extended to every
parish in the State shows the depth of the
resentment toward his course in the recent
campaign.
Lake Providence Banner Democrat: 1t
will be only guess work as to the number
of horses, mules, cattle and hogs that were
lost by the waters of the crevasse. 1t is
by far the worst crevasse of the many that
have happened in the past and the loss and
damage will be fully double. 1t is catas-
trophy that our parish will hardly recover
from in the next ten or fifteen years.
J, New Orleans Item: The Good Govern
ment League, if its leaders stand true to
the pledges they gave the people of Lou
!, isiana, can control this Legislature for
good as absolutely as Jared Y. Sanders
controlled it for evil. If they fail to do so,
they will go the way Mr.. Sanders has
gone-and neither they nor he will ever
come back There can be no more COM
promise with the ancient bossdom.
Shreveport Caucasian: To receive a
, pension in Louisiana the applicant must
have served in company from Louisiana.
2 The present law is weighted with techni-
calities and "red tape'' which in sense
1 require the applicant to abase himself as
if he we're mendicant. At best the pen
] sion, 80 called, allotted is but pittance.
Indeed, the present law should be super
f seeded by an enactment that will be fair
= and more in keeping with the spirit OF
] recognition of the gallantry of the men
8 who imperiled their lives in defense OF
. their country. The Confederate soldier is
no beggar. He is hero, whose achieve
ments will endure to the end of time.
Lake Providence Banner Democrat
The big railroad systems that run through
9 our State in all directions should be
. greatly praised for the part they are
o taking in inducing the people of the bleak
y and cold country of the north and east tc
= come to Louisiana to make their homes
9 and also the part these railroad companies
y take in furnishing special train crews and
' special trains free of cost to haul the agri-
= cultural exhibits to every section of the
!. State so that the land owners and farmers
: may become more familiar with al
!, branches of farm work. This is a grea
y :" thing the railroads are doing, and theil
/. work in this line should be greatly
4 appreciated.
+ Claiborne Guardian Journals: Unfortu.
a nately most new members of the Legisla.
q ture have an idea that they must introduce
q some bills and become identified as the
# author of some law, or else they come tc
It be regarded as failures by their constitu'
q ents. This is a mistaken idea. The mem
: Der who never introduces bill and whose
time is spent in opposition to needless ane
Impractical bills introduced by other:
often are regarded as the most usefu
members of the body. We have too many
y laws now. A few simple good laws is fa
If better than to have the statute books
" crowded with complicated expensive laws
: that some times becomes fruitful source
of litigation. ''The people who are gov.
: erned best are governed less," is truisn
8 that might we'll be needed.
!! Claiborne Guardian Journal: Last Sat.
e urday, April 9Th, has been consecrated il
n memory of the great Confederate Genera
who fell at the battle of Shiloh so years
!, ago. New Orleans never fails as the years
,, come and go, to celebrate this day, ii
u paying some tribute to the heroic dead
l. who participated in that awful holocas
n where so many brave sons from this State
u risked their lives for the cause they lost
8 1t is the opinion Of many that had Johnston
survived the fateful day the pen of The
g historian might have written differen
a tragedy as that enacted at Appomatto,
between Grant and Lee. Perhaps thu
words chiseled on his marble tomb: 9Th,
al cause for which he persisted is lost. Thu
W people for whom he fought are crushed,
g would ne'er have been writ.
'e Morgan City Outlook: There is no
n much ground for fear that the Genera
le Assembly will act favorably on Superin
e tendent Harris plan to abolish the board
Y. of trustees and to put all the State educa
ID tional institutions under the direct contro
,, of the State Board of Education. Such
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