The weekly clarion., 1881-06-09
Some Things for Legislative Aspirants 10
Consider.
West Point Echo.

West Point Echo.
The time is approaching for the selection
of representatives to the next Legislature
We do not know who will aspire to this po
stion in our county, much less can we tell
who will be nominated by a County Con
vention. We think, however, that it should
be required of every aspirant before the
nominating convention that he submit
! himself unreservedly to the action of the
convention, pledging himself to support the
/ nominee. This sort of party discipline is
indispensable if We would maintain party
supremacy. In these times of unholv
alliances, the Democratic party cannot
afford to be slack in its preliminary proce-
dure. The next session of the Legislature
will be very important one, and the selec-
/ tion of representatives should be made with
great care and discretion; no man should be
/ sent to the Legislature who does not commit
himself to liberal policy towards develop
ing the resources of~the State. This is a
progressive age, and progressive men only
should be placed at the head Of affairs, so
that We may keep pace with the wants and
necessities of a growing and progressive
people. For the lack of this element in
the controlling of affairs, our State falls be
hind some Of our more enterprisiug sister
Southern States whose liberal and enterpris-
ing spirit manifested on the part of theiE
lands into oases. We might take an Eastern
State, say Massachusetts,, as an example of
what liberal legislative policy backed by
the energy and pluck of progressive people
will accomplish. With her sterile hills
without river in her territory, with only a
small harbor at Boston, she has developed
into one of the most important States in the
Union in wealth, education, manufactures
and Railroads This has been accomplished
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one of the subjects which should attract the
attention of our next Legislature The
school law should be perfected and made
more efficient and better adapted to the
wants of the people, and the accomplish
ment of its great purpose, the education of
the youth of the State. The Legislative as
pirant should commit himself to a liberal
immigration policy, and for the developing
of the agricultural resources Of the State
Nothing less than hundred thousand dol
lars should be appropriated to the grand
scheme of immigration alone. Agencies
should be established in New York and Eu-
rope with means 10 circulate the advantages
of our State, III all languages. The Immi-
grafton Bureau of Mississippi, as it exists
to-day, with the niggardly appropriation of
FIVE hundred dollars, is a disgrace to the in
telligence and enterprise of the State, there
fore we urge that our legislative aspirants
shall commit themselves to a liberal immi-
grafton policy. Manufactures should be
protected and encouraged Railroad enter
prises should also receive encouragement,
not by appropriation, but by an assurance
that their franchises will not be interfered
with, but let all stand upon the same footing,
and allow competition to regulate the /
freights etc. The new Code will undoubt
edly be overhauled, but it shcEl, oe Done
with great care, eir.ulnspection and caution. |
A United States Senator is to be elected. In
view of all these important matters, it be- |
hooves every county TO put forward men who /,
will represent them in fact. ana who will be |
able to discuss on the stump before the |
people these important issues, and who will |
be full of progress when they 60 to Jackson. |