The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-08-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.
Shreveport Times: What Louisiana
needs is an honest system of taxation-a
system that will work no hardship on any
taxpayer but will do equal justice to all.
New Orleans Times Picayune: Now is
the politicians and candidates are on their
good behavior. Now is the time to get
what all want or pretend to want.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter: That
q new organ law is needed to replace the
present one must be admitted. Inthe face
of the political chaos reigning throughout
the State, we believe that such one can
be adopted.
Shreveport Caucasian: The majority OF
hedelegates nominated are representatives
of the people and these should control, but
in the event the constitution when submit
ted for ratification should not respond to
to the reasonable expectations, it will then
be in order to defeat it.
Shreveport Times: The constitutional
should be held. We do not apprehend that
the delegates will be untrue to the best
interests of the people. We would rather
think otherwise, And it must not be for
cotton that the proposed new constitution
must be ratified by the people before it be-
comes the organic law of the State.
Alexandria Town Talk: If the conven-
ton should not produce sound and salts
factory constitution, the people can vote it
down and hold new convention at some
subsequent date. 1t is believed that the
delegates who have been selected to repre-
sent each of the parishes are as good and
capable men as could have or ever will be
found to adopt a constitution for the State.
| Mansfield Enterprise: The constitutional
convention is the only method of obtaining
relief, and from the character and record
of the men throughout the State who have
been named as delegates, we believe that
they will do so. Under these circumstances,
&c believe that our people should vote for
the convention, for they can kill the con-
sttution framed by the convention, when
submitted for their ratification or rejection,
if the work does not meet with their ap-
proval.
Baton Rouge Times: This course is
wise for the people: First-To order the
convention, then; second-To watch the
course of the convention, to study its de-
meanor, its apparent motives, its probably
=
ed product-and then to pass judgment al
the polls. \ If the delegates are untrue
to their trusts or not equal to them, then
there will be remedy when the new consti.
tuition as whole is submitted to the people
for ratification.
Shreveport Journal: Those who are op.
posing the holding of a convention at this
time, so far as we have been able to gather
depend upon the sole argument of "poli.
, tics" They are terribly disturbed over thu
possibility of political dickers being made
in the convention; the answer to this argu
) ment is easily found that the people, them
t selves, elect the men who will make up thu
convention, and the people, themselves
will have opportunity to ratify or reject tn
finished work. Where, then, is the occa
ton for these expressed fears? If the PEG
pie cannot be trusted to send to the con
, vention men who will serve patrioticall.
f and intelligently, then Louisiana is in
lamentable fix. We have no fears aloni
? this line.
New Orleans States: Vote the conven
ton and then see to it that public sentimen
4 crystallizes in favor of an organic la,
0 which, while enabling the State to solve it
It immediate financial difficulties, will miti
gate rather than aggravate the burdens Q
the average taxpayer. Let that sentimen
8 also be prepared to insist that hereafter tn
: government shall be administered With
y its revenues. Let there be an end to tn
!. riot of extravaganza which has brough
about the conditions which have made
convention so urgent. The revenue of tn
State has doubled within the last tw
v decades. Used economically, it is ampl
to meet every Legitimate need of the Stat
/, and and her public institutions.