The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-09
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

TNoW OON SaAlI ENS"fAiSoHoe
Assumption Pioneer: Do not start the
campaign for State offices yet, there's
plenty of time for that
Panchatoula Democrat: Murphy Fos-
ter's aggressive fight against the Ubiquitous
Louisiana Lottery should never be forgot
ten, to say nothing of his otherwise brill
liant career He is one of Louisiana's
grand old men.
Mansfield Enterprise: Out of forty sa-
loon keepers doing business in st. Landry
Parish, thirty-one we're recently indicted
by the Grand Jury for violating the Sun
day law, and the other nine were probably
guilty but not found out. These men are
probably no worse than the average of men,
but their occupation naturally makes law
breakers out of them.
New Orleans Times Picayune: The
name Amite is derived from the French
word "amitie," and the county in Missis-
sippi and the town in this State take their
names from the Amite River, "Amitie' by
the French in commemoration of their
friendly treatment by the Indians of that
region. The name Amite is therefore a
corruption of the French word amitie,
which means friendship.
Mansfield Enterprise: If the Bull Moose
party has accomplished no other good in
Louisiana, it has put a check upon the
practice of voters registering as Socialists,
Republicans and Independents and then
participating in Democratic primary cleo
tons. 1t seems that matters will be so
arranged, that all such parties, will take a
turn in the convict gang, who are guilty of
such practices. $50 mote it be-
Shreveport Journal: 81 will give the
sum of one thousand dollars to get rid of
the saloons in Monroe" said Shreveport
citizen who has business iterest in the Qua
chita metropolis, and who sees where he is
losing money every day because of the
presence of the liquor shops. And il
might be remarked right here that when
the business men who are interested in the
future of Monroe begin to talk as the gen
tleman above quoted, the saloons have got
to the beginning Of the end.
Shreveport Caucasian: At their bes
commissions, which are now operative
have failed to meet the reasonable antici.
pations of conservative, intelligent people
and to add to their number would be ar
additional burden on the taxpayers anc
: would be to the detriment of local self.
government. The citizens of Louisiana
who pay the taxes are radically opposed tt
every scheme political through which
special committees and commissions arr
proposed, we repeat, to reward politician
, and to further the interests of politica
, place hunters and the feeders at the pub
r lie crib
Shreveport Journal: Inasmuch as Their
: is very little possibility of any opposition
I 1oualorip.r TO Tohn n Of
c kins, even the setting Of the primary dat
j.. will be more Of a formalty than anything
8 else. There has been an occasional linen
t tom Of some one to oppose Judge Wat
kins. but this is as far as it has gone, an
e its appears now that the popular Minde1
man will be returned for another tern
q without contest of any sort. 1t goe
without saying that this situation is mos
gratifying to the friends of Congressman
r. Watkins throughout the Fourth District
:, The honor is one that has been earned b,
loyal and energetic service.
Shreveport Journal: Editor Hulse, o
: The Homer Guardian journal is not overl
: optimistic so far as courts of justice ar
concerned. After telling Of the shootin.
= death several days later in Shreveport
uOSpitdi. Tic IlCilcE OuCFS u
wager last years hat "that when tn
) trial comes off the learned experts will s.
mix up the matter in answer to hypothet
' ical questions that no jury in the parisl
: will be able to tell beyond doubt whethe
!. the negro died from a pistol shot, a gul
shot, from septicaema, from shock, from
8 heart failure, from NAL treatment, iron
u fever Or from natural causes" And that
probably just what will happen, too.