The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-11-19
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.
Mobile Register: Alabama has the dis
tinction of possessing supreme court that
actually has cleaned up its docket.
Louisville Courier Journal: All that we
can clearly see is that the triumph of Mill
tarism means unending war, whence we
repeat, down with Absolutism and Arbi-
trary Power, to everlasting Perdition the
Hapsburg and the Hohenzollern!
Mobile Register: An Alabama boy,
Walker Lee Dunson, of Alexander City,
Tallapoosa County, holds the official rec
ord as corn grower, having yield of 232
Alfred, runs him close with 227 bushels.
Magnolia Gazette: England is at war
with Germany-fghting the greatest war
of history for her very national existence.
America is at peace with the world. Yet,
food prices are normal in England. Yet.
the rate of interest on money is normal in
England. Yet. cotton is quoted at 10h
cents in England. While in peaceful
America, prices for everything to eat have
scared, money is hard to get at any inter-
est rate. and cotton is drug on the mar
ket at 6 cents. Somebody tell US why.
st. Louis Republic: Undoubtedly the
South was bowled off its feet by the shock
of war, but little time for reflection
brought to mind the fact forcibly recalled
by the Dallas News that for ten years,
| from 1891 to 1901, cotton averaged as low
in price as it does now, and that there was
another tumble in 19O4-5, when prices
touched present levels. The South wealth
cred those periods without outside help
and sees no reason for disaster now when
the whole nation is cooperating to solve
the cotton problem in a time of sound
finance under better monetary system.
Port Gibson Reveile: And still there
are cotton conventions and more cotton
conventions, and resolutions without num-
ber-all to no avail. The farmer will have
to settle the problem for himself. If he
wants to gamble on proposition with odds
against him he will plant lot of cotton
next year: if he wants to take no risks. he
will let cotton be his smallest crop. Many
farmers have allowed the other fellow to
think for them during the past, but it is
now up to them to do their own thinking.
The law of supply and demand is as i'm
mutable as the laws of the Medes and Per-
SLAMS. 1t cannot be repealed and the vio-
lator never escapes punishment.
Tallahatchie Herald: 1t has been thor
oughly proven that we will have to work
out our own problems. We can't regulate
the price of cotton by law, neither can we
dictate to any man how he shall proceed
to earn his living. 1t is time and breath
lost to say that we will prohibit the grow
ing Of cotton by law, even if it is to do
away with the boil wevil. Texas, LOUISE
ana, Mississippi and part of Alabama are
the only States that have single boil
weevil, and how are the other nine or ten
cotton growing States going to keep their
folks from growing it? Let's quit talking
it and talk more about growing cows,
horses, hogs, grain crops and something
to eat at home, making cotton an entirely
surplus crop and then we will hit the right
trail.
Louisville Courier Journal: Inevitably
the war must and will be fought to a finish.
The conflict between Christianity and Mill
tarism, between Freedom and Autocracy,
is an irrepressibie conflict There can be
no compromise which would be more than
hollow and provisional truce. If Mill
tarism be not crushed Europe will remain
an armed camp, and soon or late America
will be drawn into the selfish and cruel play
of the nations for dominion and power.
Save as charity -mongers we have nothing
to do with it just yet; but when the Allies
have triumped, when Absolutism has been
dispersed in Germany, we may have some-
thing to say, and, in any event, we shall
be able to take care of ourselves and to
hold our own. For the rotten
Hohenzollerns and the yet more putrid
Hapsburgs, and the ironclad system of
catism of which they are the typical rep