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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06


The Daily Freeman-Tribune by
mail, per year ............$4.O0
Delivered in city, per year. $500
p. L. Hunter. Business Mgr.
". r. Hunter ............. Editor
To be perfectly just is an attri-
butte of the divine nature; to be so to
the utmost of our abilities, is the
glory of man.-Addison.
AS a revenue cutter President Will
son seems to have begun where
Grover Cleveland left off.
1t is hoped that the people will
not get the highway commission
mixed with highwaymen. There is
a difference.
The Iowa house has passed bill
repeating the "non-partisan" judic-
larry law. May it pass the senate and
be signed by the governor.
With Colonel Roosevelt back in
the republican party democracy will
stand about as much chance for sue
cess as the dove of peace has in Eur
ope.
Although they have been at it two
years the democratic party has not
materially reduced the high cost of
living. Isn't it about time to look
around for a new crew to do the job?
What in tarnation will there be
left for the next Iowa legislature to
do after this one gets through >
Castana Times.
Well, they can put in a good
share of their time repeating the
laws this legislature will enact.
An English commission house is
offering to sell Russian wheat in
America, to be delivered in three
weeks. Possibly the firm is trying
to make the world believe that the
Dardanelles will be opened to the
allies by that time.
1.-THE allies are still hammering
away at the Dardanelles," say the
dispatches. But they seem to be
hammering without avail. Must, be
Germans are at the guns in the Tur-
kish forts and the guns must have
been made in Germany.
The legislature may as we'll save
the time it is wasting in trying to
pass bill to repeal the capitol ex-
tension act or any part of it. Gov.
Clarke would lose no time in Veto
ing such bill. The governor has
one hobby and that is capitol extern
sion.
Des Moines is making hard fight
to clear the city of bootleggers and
many of them are being hailed into
court. 1t costs, according to state
ment of w. J. Pilkington, president
of the citizens association, about five
dollars to get a bootlegger before
the courts.
Germany is the first in medicine,
music and the arts of war, but she
appears to be getting the worst of
the great conflict at this particular
time. Her submarines are doing con-
siderable damage, but her armies in
both the east and the west seem to
be slipping back slowly.
The city council of Des Moines is
finding that it can economic. 1t
is like the rabbit climbing the tree.
1t had to. About the only law-mak-
ing body in the world that seems I'M
able to economic is the congress of
the United States when it is in the
hands of the democratic party.
Charlie Miller, who has represent
ed Bremen county in the Iowa legisla-
ture for many years and has some
thing Of reputation as an opponent
of the Doctors profession, says that
if there is anything affords him
more pleasure that the killing of a
bill that the doctors want enacted it
is the passing a bill that the doctors
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

George viii, Sr., born in New Orleans
in 1915, died in that city last Saturday.
On account of the short cane crop in
Assumption Parish grinding will not begin
until around the first of November.
The Protectionist is the name of new
Louisiana journal recently established in
New Iberia. 1t is bull moose organ.
A call meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Democratic State Central Com
nittee will be held next Saturday in New
Orleans.
Shreveport Times: A record enrolment
for schools of this city was recorded Mon
day when 1908 children registered to the
various schools. This beats the record Of
last year by 235.
Louisiana Planter: There now remain
only about five weeks before the grinding
season begins in Louisiana, and this date,
the 18th of September, finds the cane crop
disappointing on nearly all the Louisiana
plantations. Here and there fairly good
crop is in evidence, but in the majority OF
cases the cane found it impossible to com
bat the disadvantageous climatic conditions
that characterized the spring and summer
Of 1915. Additional growth may be regis
tered between now and the beginning of
| the campaign, but much additional growth
| is now hardly as desirable rs the ripenine
Of the canes and the secretion Of sucros.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
jeremiah.

But they shall serve the Lord their God.
and their king, whom | will raise up unto
them.-3C, 8.
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will forsake
you, and the city that gave you and your
and | will bring an everlasting reproach
upon you, and a perpetual shame, which
shall not be forgotten.-23, 39-4O.
Therefore they shall come and sing in
the height of Zion, and shall flow together
to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and
for wine, and for Oil, and for the young Of
the flock and of the herd; and their soul
shall be as a watered garden; and they
shall not sorrow any more at all.-51, IL.
Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes
and to all the people, saying, the Lord sent
me to propbesy against this house and
against this city all the words that We have
heard. Therefore, now amend your ways
and your doings, and obey the voice of the
Lord your God; and the Lord will repent
him of the evil that he hath pronounced
against you.-26, 1918.
Is not my word like as fire? and like g
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces:
Therefore, behold, I am against the proph.
cts, saith the Lord, that steal my words
every one from his neighbor. Behold,
am against the prophets, saith the Lord
that use their tongues, and say He saith
Behold, am against them that prophesy
false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tel
them, and cause my people to err by theil
lies, and by their lightness; yet sent then
not, nor commanded them: therefore they
shall not profit this people at all, saith the
Lord.-23, 1882.
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Womap's Sphere.

In discussing the question of Woman
Suffrage before the late Constitutional Con-
vention of New York, United States SEN
ator Elihu Root, one OF the ablest men in
the country, said in part:
81 am opposed to the granting of suf-
frage to women, becauseI believe that it
would be loss to women, to all women
and to every woman; and because believe
it would be an injury to the State, and to
every man and woman in the State. 1t
would be useless to argue this If the right
of suffrage were natural right. 1t it were
natural right, then women should have
it though the heavens fall. But if there be
any one thing settled in the long discussion
of this subject, it is that suffrage is not a
natural right, but is simply a means of
government, and the sole question to be
discussed is whether government by the
suffrage of men and women will be better
government than by the suffrage of men
alone.
Into my judgment, sir, there enters no
element of the inferiority Of women. It is
not that woman is inferior to man, but it is
that in the distribution Of powers, of capac-
tiles, of qualities, our Maker has created
man adapted to the performance Of certain
functions in the economy of nature and
society, and woman adapted to the per-
| Torrance of other functions.
"Woman rules to day by the sweet and
noble influence Of her character. Put
woman into the arena of conflict and she
abandons these great weapons which con-
troll the world, and she takes into her hands,
feeble and nerveless for strife, weapons
with which she is unfamiliar and which she
is unable to WELD. Woman in strife be-
comes hard, harsh, unlovable, repulsive
as far removed from that gentle creature
to whom we all owe allegiance and to whom
we confess submission, as the heaven is
removed from the earth.
1.-THE whole science of government is
the science of protecting life and liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. In the divine
distribution of powers, the duty and the
right of protection rests with the male. II
is SO throughout nature. 1t is so with men
land |, for one, will never consent to par
with the divine right of protecting my wife
my daughter, the women whom love, anc
the women whom | respect, exercising the
birthright of man, and place that high duty
in the weak and nerveless hands of those
designed by God to be protected rather
than to engage in the stern warfare Of gov.
!, eminent. In my judgment this whole
movement arises from false conception
, of the duty and of the right of both mer
and women.
1.-THE time will never come when the line
of demarcation between the functions o
the two sexes will be broken down. be
lieve it to be false philosophy; l believe
that it is an attempt to turn backward upol
the line of social development, and that i
J the step ever be taken, we go centuries
backward on the march towards a higher
nobler and purer civilization, which
, must be found not in the confusion, but il
the higher differentiation of the sexes"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
EaVorS National Prohibition.

"The saloon is the one thing that is
breaking down our political system. 1t is
the greatest supporter of the social evils
Strong drink ruins more homes, makes
more criminals, creates more degradation
and poverty, causes more heart aches and
heart breaks, cripples and destroys more
lives than any other curse in the world.
San enlightened citizenship demands the
utter annihilation OF traffic so destructive.
An institution which outrages the divine
institution Of love will never obey the po-
lice regulations of men. Inherently evil it
can never be regulated or reformed; it
must, therefore, be destroyed.
"Mayor Blankenburg of Philadelphia
states that the number of unlicensed places
in that city. where liquors are illegally sold
exceeds the number Of licensed saloons
der license than under prohibition. When
Memphis licensed saloons, there were 1000
places that paid for United States privi-
| iege tax that did not pay any State or city
| license. Interstate commerce laws inter-
fere and prevent the enforcement of laws
by prohibition States.
"The constituency of this State is over
whelmingly prohibition. A citizen owes il
to himself to be sincere and honest in vot-
ing, and to vote not simply for his own
likes. but for the good of the country. Ii
is wrong to vote for any man that is weak
on the prohibition question. II a candidate
has political record, examine it, and if his
vote is not recorded on the right side of ali
moral questions, take those gentlemen on
their records. w. H. Patton of Shubuta.
Miss, in the New Orleans Times Picayune
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Newspaper Charity.

Space and copies of his paper go to make
up the newspaper mans entire stock In
trade. These two are all that he has to
offer for sale to the public, and no one has
ever yet given any sort of satisfactory rea-
son why he should ever be asked by anyone
to donate them.
One thing newspaper people will never
be able to understand is why any person
will walk into newspaper Office and make
himself or herself an object of charity and
insist upon what they would disdain to ask
for in any other shop or place Of business
in the town. The principle is the same in
the newspaper office as in the dry goods
store, the grocery, the drug store, and what
great many people need is to come to
recognize it as the same and get Off the
newspaper charity list.
Advertising space in the newspaper is
for sale, not to give away. 1t has certain
intrinsic value in itself that makes it worth
money. Copies of the newspaper are for
sale, not to give away. If they are worth
having, they are worth the exceedingly
small price asked for them.
The public, or at least large portion OF
it, has some very erroneous ideas about
these matters, and it is but just to the news
paper folks that these ideas be corrected in
accordance with the same business princi-
Piles that prevail in all other business estab-
! lishments.
In the vast majority Of cases, this gen.
erous charity on the part of newspapers is
blissfully taken for granted, and the pa
per's liberalty abused. That which il
purely favor is accepted as a matter O.
course, and what should be requests ART
couched as demands.
When the courtesy has been performed
there is rarely appreciation, and more otter
tistaction-generally silence.
The result in many other towns and cite
has been that ban has been put upon al
free publicity, no matter what its object
The Fourth Estate.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
Reunion Of Confederate Veterans.

Major General A. B. Booth. commands
of the Louisiana Division, U. c. v, an
nounces that the annual convention anc
reunion Of the Division will be held in New
Orleans on Wednesday and Thursday
November 10th and 18th, with session or
the 18th if desired. The equestrian statute
monument to Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard
which cost something over S21 COO, will be
unveiled on the afternoon of Thursday
November 18th, and the Division will par
ticipate in the ceremonies. At this meeting
a Major General to command the Division
for the ensuing year will be elected.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

Assumption Pioneer: If all contributed
our share To the work necessary to keep
things going, this would be world of
plenty.
White Castle News: A good many peo-
ple seem to think that it does not cost US
ANYTHING to print any and everything,
whether il is advertising or not and imagine
we are Just here for a convenience to the
nuhGc and that's all, and that we should
really offer some apology for our existence
here. and should never think Of asking for
nav for what we do. Well, we won't, but
we will demand it hereafter, and il on en-
tering the customer does not look good, the
paw will have 20 come before the work is
even started and to anyone else, work will
necessarily have to be paid for before it
leaves the shop.
Farmervile Gazette: What we people
in the hill section want are good roads.
Model highways we have always consider
ed entirely out of our reach. A road built
so perfectly that a speed maniac could
drive his machine over it at a speed of
ninety miles an hour does not appeal to US
great deal. But good substantial roads
all over the country, over which the farm
ers could haul their produce to market
NlIHOub wearing oOt q "asoh aha 'oohi
every trip, and over which the automobile
owner could drive without begging down to
his red signal light every time the weather
changes, appeal to us most because we
know that such roads are practical and
withintour reach, whereas model highways
costing four or five thousand dollars mile
to build, are utterly impossible to the great
majority of the parishes.
New Orleans Times Picayune: Louisi-
ana has had an unusual amount of trouble
over its State capital. There have been
| frequent changes and constant uncertainty
on this point. The first convention Chat
of 1879 fixed New Orleans as the capital
| where it had been for century of colonial
administration after the removal from Old
Biloxi Cor Ocean Springs). The second
convention in 1S45 did not fix any capital
but provided that it should be at least sixty
miles distant from New Orleans. Baton
Rouge was finally agreed on as answering
for the first time in 1913. 1t remained there
for fourteen years, until Baton Rouge was
captured by the Federal fleet; when fol-
that portion of the State held by the Fed
eral forces, New Orleans became the cap
itai; and Shreveport for those parishes
under the Confederate flag. After the war
New Orleans remained the capital up tc
1879 when it was restored to Baton Rouge
During the frequent movings probably g
dozen buildings in New Orleans were oc'
cupied as State House.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23

The magnitude of this startling increase
in the grain crop of the South is best indi-
Gated by comparison with the value of the
South's cotton crop. The most valuable
cotton crop ever produced was that of
1914, which, including the seed, was
estimated at S1,134, O00,O00. Thus the
South's grain crop this year will exceed in
value by Sl96, 200, 900 the total value of the
most valuable cotton crop ever raised.
More interesting than the mere fact of
the stupendous increase of over sol ,O0O, 600
bushels, or nearly SO per cent, is the fact
that this increase is general throughout the
entire South. Alabama. for instance, shows
q gain of 100000 bushels Arkansas
comes forward with an increase of IL, 000,-
600 bushels. The increase in Florida is
nearly 10000 bushels. Georgia has made
gain Of 100000 bushels. Kentucky
has made an increase of nearly 10000, 900
bushels, while Louisiana, which only a few
years ago was scarcely ranked as a corn
producing State, has now advanced to a
production of over $4,000, 900 bushels, an
increase Of 10000, 900 bushels over 1914.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

One man was killed and heavy property
loss sustained Friday when two cars of
gasoline exploded in Toledo, Ohio.
Petersburg, Va, Sept. 1S.-A railroad
locomotive ran into an automobile truck
last night en- route to Hopewell, killing two
persons and injufing six, one of whom will
die.
Macon, Miss, Sept. 18.-W. C. Swallow
who lives six miles from Macon, sold his
plantation of 842 acres yesterday. This
piece of property brought $50 per acre.
Mr.. Swallow will move to Louisiana, where
he will invest in the sugar business.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
INDECENT .JOURNAIISM.-nhe chancel]

INDECENT JoURNALIsM.-The chancellor
at Nashville, in whose court commission
is at work investigating the affairs of that
city, ought either to limit the inquiry or
hold the session in chambers. The retail
ing of the details of some of the things that
took place in that city, no matter if they
are in the records of the court, in the coll
umns of a daily newspaper which goes into
decent homes is a disgrace to American
journalism. The Nashville papers ought
to keep such stuff out or they ought to be
suppressed.
Freedom Of the press does not mean
freedom to be ndecent.-Memphis Com
mercial appeal.
" Indecent journalism is nuisance
which should be repudiated by all decent
and self-respecting readers. Quit reading
their filthy sheets, and starye them out.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23

SINCERITY. is the grand secret for
finding readers and retaining them: let
him who would move and convince others
be first moved and convinced himself.
Horace's rule, 81 vas me .flere, is applicable
in wider sense than the literal one. To
every poet, to every writer, we might say ::
Be true if you would be believed Let a
man but speak forth with genuine earnest
ness the thought, the emotion, the actual
condition of his own heart; and other men,
so strangely are we all knit together by the
tie Of sympathy, must and will give heed
to him. In culture, in extent of view, we
may stand above the speaker, Or below him !;
but in either case, his words, if they are
earnest and sincere, will find some response
within US; for in spite of all casual varieties
in outward rank or inward, as face answers
face, so does the heart of man to man.
/ Cn3Iule,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
An Ordinance

Providing for the issuance of certificates
of Indebtedness, based on special
5-mill tax of Road District No. OF
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, for SAC, GOO,
represented by eighty certificates for
$500 each, to be used in payment OF
contract price for the building OF
bridges and permanent hard roads in
said district.
Whereas, on the 2Sth day of June,
A. D. 1915, the Police Jury of Bossier
Parish, Louisiana, duly passed and
adopted an ordinance calling a special
election to be held in Road District No
l OF said parish, consisting OF Wards
One and Two and that part of Ward Si1
designated as alluvial lands and en-
braced within the boundaries of tht
Bossier Levee District, to be held or
the 7th day of August, 1915, to submit
to the voters of said district a PROPOSE
ton to levy a special 5-mill tax on al
the property subject to taxation in sale
district for a period Of five years, be,
ginning with the year 1915 and ending
with the year 1919, both inclusive, foI
the purpose of building, constructing
repairing and maintaining public road
and bridges in said district, and alst
providing that the Police Jury shoult
meet in open session on the 10Th day o
August, 1915, for the purpose of opening
the ballot boxes, examining and count
ing the ballots, and promulgating tn,
returns Of said election; and,
Whereas, said election was duly hell
on the 7th day of August, 1915, in ac
cordance with the Constitution and law
of the State of Louisiana, and in CON
pliagce with the ordinance of the Pole
Jury, which ordinance was duly pro
mulgated as required by law; and,
Whereas, On the 10Th day of August
1915, the Police Jury met in open ses
sion, as provided in said ordinance, 70
the purpose OF opening The ballot boxes
counting the ballots. both as to numbe
and amount, and did then and ther
duly declare the result thereof to be i
favor of said special tax, which resul
has been duly promulgated, as require
by law; and,
Whereas, all other acts, condition
and things necessary to be done prece
dent to the levying Of said special ia
] have happened and been performed j
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
Election Proclamation.
VlIIdge Of B0sslef Caty,
Purish of BOssier, Louisiana.

4 PROCLAMATION calling a special
n election to take the sense OF the
qualified property taxpayers OF SAID
municipality as to the assessment OF
special tax OF not to exceed 8 mills pei
annum for a period OF ten years for the
purchase and maintenance of free
ferry over and across Red River at OF
adjacent to this village, and appurte-
nances thereto. -,
By virtue OF the authority vested il
me by the Constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana, and the laws ano
ordinances of the Village of Bossiel
City, and especially by Ordinance No
81, of even date herewith, l, M. B
woodward, Mayor, do hereby proclaim
and announce,
That an election will be held on Mon
day, September n, 1915, at the Village
Hall of this village, during the lega
hours for such elections, for the purpose
Of taking the sense of the qualified
property taxpayers of this municipality
for or against the authorization of 6
special tax, to be known as "ferry
tax" on all property within the limit;
of said village, not to exceed mills PEI
Vi eooSSodISh
therein, for the purpose of purchase anc
maintenance of free ferry, and appur-
tenances thereto, over and across Rec
River, within this village, or adjacen
thereto, beginning with the year 1911
and running for period of ten con-
secutive years thereafter, said tax to bt
collected by the duly authorized Ia,
Collector for this village, as provided By
law, at the same time and in the same
manner as other taxes are collected, anG
applied solely to the purposes as afore-
said.
| do further proclaim and announce
That the clerk of this council shall pre-
pare the ballots for said election, anG
same shall read "for" and "against'
said tax, the voter to express his will OF
choice as provided by law, leaving thai
expression of his desire on the ballot, a:
aforesaid, and the returns of said elee-
ton shall be made to this council, al
provided by law.
In conformity with the afordsaid or
dinance, the commissioners and clerks Of
said election shall be as follows, to-wit:
Chas. Smith, Frank Ryon and t. P
Switzerland, commissioners; A. c.
Wilmington, clerk.
Witness my hand and the seal of the
Village of Bossier City, at the Village
Hall, this, the 10Th day Of August, A. D
1915. NJ. B. WOODWARD, Mayor.
Attest: wv. HUEcHINGs, Clerk. s4-5