The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-05
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.
New Orleans Times Democrat cartoon:
You can bet your life, Sam, the farmers
won't forget the fellers that tried to cripple
the parcel post.
Lake Charles American Press: Mardi
Gras prices must have been perfectly fierce
this year, since the thieves were obliged to
go out and catch the incoming trains in
order TO collect their share.
Lake Charles American Press: The
biggest joke of the Mardi Grass season
this year was the one Charles M. Schwab
put over on newspaper reporter to the
effect that he had never heard of Mardi
Gras.
New Orleans Picayune: Economy is a
word to conjure with on the stump and in
the hastings, but it is anything but popular
in the halls of Congress and among the
people except where it applies to the other
| fellow.
| Ahbeville Meridional: Dueling, bear
batting, prize fighting, crooked horse racing
and several other ''sports' of bygone
generation, are either tabooed or peni-
Tertiary offense to-day. We hope the time
is not far distant when an enlightened and
civilized spirit will demand the same treat
ment for football and basketball as played
by the Tulane and Louisiana State Uni
eersity teams.
/ The Evangeline Banner strikes at the
root of the evil when it says: We have
got to fight, not Yorick and Teneson Gull
!ory and r. Granger, or any other boot
logger, but We have got to fight the rich and
powerful Liquor Interests of the country.
The bootleggeEs are mere incidents of the
/ fight. Will the Legislature hear the ap-
peals of the people of the State of Louisi-
ana? Hearing them, will they comply
with them? Time alone will tell.
Franklin Waterman: Prosperity will
not return as long as Congress and the
j Legislature of the several States remain in
session, or hold meetings about as fast
as they can adjourn. If the statement
was made with certainty that neither of
these bodies would meet for four years,
every business interest would straighten
/ itself up, and we would enjoy prosperous
peace during that time. We have enough
laws now to answer all purposes for the
, next two thousand years, but the big and
little noise makers, must come together and
t raise h, disturb industrial development,
! and thereby reduce the food supply Of the
fellow who has to toll for his daily bread.
Shreveport Journal: The time has come,
it seems, in the Parish of Caddo, when it
would be just as we'll to unlock the Jail
doors, dispense with all machinery provid-
ed for enforcement of the law, and turn
the court house into vaudeville theatre.
, An intolerabe situation has arisen in this
city and parish, throttling justice in its
( stronghold and making sport of the statute
against murder. Where to place the blame
, for this situation, and what steps must be
: taken to relieve it, will be discussed at a
: monster mass meeting in behalf of law en-
forcement at the city hall auditorium, at
; o'clock Monday. Human life is becoming
. the cheapest commodity to be head in the
markets and the courts and the juries seem
: to have become absolutely powerless tc
e stop the slaughter. The problem to be
solved is such as to call for the active as.
f sistanee of strong men and courageou:
j men-of men who will stand firm for the
enforcement of the law against murder az
o we'll as every other law on the statute
: books.