The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-01
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Louisville Courier-Journal: What else
is the dropping Of bomb into the heart OF
a city but murder?
New York World: The German autoc-
racy makes war in the way that autocracy
has always chosen to make war. II this
autocracy wins the conflict it has begun, it
will be hardly worth while for civilization
to deceive itself longer with prattle about
the rights of neutrals and the protection of
non combatants and the safety of women
and children. The Duke of Alva will have
been vindicated.
Philadelphia Inquirer: While peace is
always desirable, it is not certain that if
hostiities could cease at once that the best
interests of Europe or the world, for that
matter, would be served. For if fighting
should stop and the various nations now
at war should return to their old systems
and methods and ways, it would all have
to be done over again later on. For years
Europe has been an armed camp. That
accounts for everything. Let it remain
an armed camp, and where would be the
security for the future? 1t perhaps bet
ter, in spite of the awfulness of it, that the
contest should proceed until settlement
can be effected that will be permanent.
When peace comes it must put an end to
many things.
Philadelphia Public Ledger: The wish
is father to the thought in the talk of med
iation by the United States. Yet it must
be obvious to every thoughtful observer
that all such efforts are premature. There
has been no such decisive result on the
battlefield as would furnish basis for ne
gotiations; and no settlement that leaves
out of account the vital issue for which
the nations are battling can hope to be
permanent. The issue, of course, is mill
tarism, as it is understood and applied by
Germany, and involved in it is the ques-
ton whether the world is to adopt the
principal that treaties have no binding
force on Powers strong enough to violate
them whenever their interests will be serv-
ed by so doing. No peace which merely
re- stablishes the military and POLITICAL
status of August list will be more than a
temporary truce, and the world has already
paid too dear price in blood and gold fol-
any such abortive outcome.
Louisville Courier journal: The world
conquering policy of the German Kaiser
based upon Prussian, not German, militia
rism, firmly established in Europe, re-en-
forced by the absorption of Belgium ano
Holland into the German Imperial system
Italy perhaps driven back into the EN-.
brace of Austrian despotism France
crushed and humbled, and England made
to.play second fiddle, her colonial system
maybe broken into fragments turn tc
dance to the Kaiser's martial music WOULD
not be long delayed. Or, as the venerable
learned and thoughtful DR.. Eliot, Emeritus
; President of Harvard, puts it, "Shoulo
Germany and Austria Hungary succeed
in their undertakings, the whole civilized
world would be obliged to bear continu.
ously and to an increasing amount
the burdens of great ornaments, ano
would live in constant fear of sudden inva
sion, now here, now there-a terrible fear
against which neither treaties nor profes.
sions of peaceable intensions would Offer
the least security