The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-11-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

Morgan City Chronicle: Every line in
the newspaper costs the proprietor some-
thing. If ii is for the benefit of the indi-
vidual it should be paid for. II the grocer
were asked to contribute groceries to one
abundantly able to pay for them, he would
refuse. The proprietor of newspaper
must pay for the free advertising if the
beneficiary does not, and yet it is one of
the hardest things to be learned by many
that newspaper has space in its columns
to rent and must rent them to live.
Amite Florida Parishes: Frequently we
have been asked why we do not publish
more murder cases and news of this kind.
One of the main reasons for our not doing
so is that the daily papers are crowded
with this class of reading matter and were
we to attempt to give brief review each
week of such items as murders, homicides,
suicides, etc., our columns would be taxed.
Then again, there is enough sorrow and
bitterness observed nearer home without
recapitulating the awful deeds committed
throughout sim stained world.
The Amite Florida Parishes: What sur
prises US great deal about the cotton
loan fund of nearly one hundred and forty
million dollars, is that the greater part OF
this vast sum came from Northern and
Eastern banking houses and brokers
Timidity of Southern banks to assist the
moving of the principal crop of the South,
is painfully apparent to the careful OBJ
server. Yet facts are facts. Southern
financiers do not appear to manifest the
interest that they should in movements like
the cotton loan fund. The greater part oil
this money could have been raised by
Southern banking institutions and capital.
lists. We depend entirely too much on oul
Northern friends.
Shreveport Forest: There are some
people who can never be taught a lessor
and the Mexicans, to our notion, are Of
this class. 1t is pity that we ever sen
our warsbips to Vera Cruz, thereby sacri
ficing nineteen valuable American lives
and it is good thing that we are going tt
''skiddoo" from there on the 23rd. LIE
the ''greasers" fight it out to finish
among themselves. When they are ex
hausted with fighting, maybe they will
| listen to reason. There are too many sci
appointed, treacherous, ambitious leader
in Mexico, and they are all actuated b,
self interest. There is not true patrio
among them, Kill Villa, Carranza, Zapat;
and all the rest of them and others of tn
same kidney will spring up, so the onl,
thing to do is to let them fight it out.
The Shreveport Forest: The negro ex
hibit at the State Fair was splendid. I
reflected the greatest credit on the rae
and proved that when properly encour
aged the negro can be made valuabl
asset to the State. When we went out t
the Fair one of the first questions asked u
was, shave you seen the colored exhibit
When we replied in the negative, we wer
told, ''don't miss it for it is one of the bes
things on the ground" We saw it an
found that our informants were right. TIL
agricultural exhibits we're wonderful an
we're arranged with exceeding taste; tn
fancy work, particularly the drawn work
was fine, and the display of home mad
pickles and preserves, quilts, and all sort
of garments astonished every one. Th
! colored schools of the State showed whs
the children were being taught, and ais
} that in drawing, etc., they were we'll ad
vaneed and promised we'll. In industris
work, such as the manufacture of wagons
hrooms, and many other articles, the sam
pies displayed were equal to the best pro
!, duced anywhere.