The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-07-28
believe is an age
--i'ihat teens with crimes,
Beyond al precedent Of former timcss
An are so bad that Nature cannot frame
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Il should be done according to law
and through the selection Of wise and
able law makers--men who have clear
perceptions Of right and wrong and
are accustomed, TO scan matters from
the moral standpoints, right an JUS
tice, and not those who Ike Sigma,
see things only in a partisan light,
and Wage a pitiless war on the tried
and true for a difference Of opinion,
howe-s well founded IN fact and Law.
Mississippi, for her material interests,
needs just now no partisan pleader
law-giver or chief magistrate, If you
please, whose modes Of thought make
the prefenees OF the hour, the par
untobjects OF every lofical illog.
ical argument nor does she need an
Executive who is better trained 10
tue field Of political polemics than 10
the ohservances Of the letter and
spirit Of the Law.
Signals letter shows bis ability.
We doubt not be is a gentleman OF
prominence also, ia his community.
II we could get at bis real name and
vocation. possibly We could establish
the fact Of his prominence BY the
columns Of the Clarion itself, had we
access to its Giles. He may be, and
doubtless is a shining light in the
Cartons Mutual Aid and Admira-
ton Society"-some distinguished
lawyer" planter, banker ar HStates-
man." or perhaps all four in one. and
yet We greatly doubt il be could per-
suade q single individual within the
domain Of his acquaintance that the
liberties Of Mississipplan's have ever
been seriously threatened BY the rail,
road corporations Of the State. Is
there 3 sane man in the State, who
truly believes that even in the event
there was an identity Of interest and
9 common warfare Waged against the
rights Of the people, thRt there you'd
arise any danger Of Mississippi's Z
being bound hand OF foot, much
less enslaved and Overridden In rough
shod style BY her present railroads
Again, we would ask, are not the
people to-day suffering more from the
want Q railroads ana the usuFious
rates Of interest charged under the
sanction Of law, and In the fraudulent
name Of discount" by the chartered
banking institutions of the State,
than from the oppression OF her inter.
nal improvements ? We know. and
50 a0ea Sigma know, that 10 per
cent IS tho limit to the legal rate ol
interest in Mississippi, but what We
vantt0 know and what re ask Sigma
is, does he not own, or has he not
owned stock or other securities in
souo othef chartered baAkiuk Instl-
tuition, where "the devil Is whipped
around the stump" and : greater rate
than ten per cent is realized through
some hocUs poeWs arrangement, and
where the bo-ealled rights gf th,
dear people are set aside and defed
Take the banking institutions o.
/ 0kolona, il you please, OF Qktibheh,
or Lovndea, Or Clay o. Monroe, anC
and do W. hear Of outFages there. anS
the talk Of e Bank "CommissI0ner'
70 establish reasonable maximum
rates in violation Of the limit guar
anteed under their charters WIZ
then rob the railroad organization
Or corporations nrganized under o.
sacred forms Of law as these char.
tered hanks, Of clearly charlere,
{ rights il the name of popular protec
ton ? When We see money quoted a
easy st 3 a per cent. IN The grea
commercial centres, and the people o
this State begging for i at 10 g 20
/ do we hear The eloquent appeals o
Sigma OF anY one Of bis TX, in behal
Of the peoples rightsf All no
there arc no whispers Of the sover
eighty Of the State, and oppression
and unjust Determinations, heeans
/ perehance bank pn9ages, AM
The asHrsrs eiHs are not issues O
the canvass. Although vice ma,
have attained ils zenith in TIA
direction they are not evils tha
Sigma seeks to cure. The discussion
OF those sort Of outrages are not ye
in such shape as to inure to the ad
vantage OF Major Barksdale. th
Clarion candidate Of "our party"
To compare the condition Of Mis-
sissippi with Massachusetts, and II
! llnoiss With reference 70 railroad in
! teresta and e0ahinslinaa. is shee
{ folly. What might be wholesom
+ law there, mignt he suieldal ia Mis-
! sissippl. Those States have & per
feet net work Of railroads. The iro
/ ties bind every hamlet aud villag
together, but here there are whol
E counties in which lhe sefeech ofll
: locomotive have never yet bee
heard, and Z sigma's eleNs abltii
/ viii not FOR TIE next century Hhf
j. lCe need e railroad deeelopMsnt
: How can We expect ID. if we By OF
3 ballots this iall write Mlssissipfiar
e down ns opposed 20 nalimprov,
i ments III corporations now doin
e business 10 the State got heiiar baI
! gains 81 tbe State, through DE leg
S islatures Of The past, than preset
> legislatures are willing 70 grant,
e that 3 reason for deprIYing The piol
: eers of q system Of internal improYI
Il mems that has made The world stn
! aghasi 81 tie wonderful invent,
genius of the age, and the pluck an
+ enterprise Of American railroad mel
I Of tha frniia Of their risks and enel
]. gy2
e Senator Humphreys, "the dlsiii
e guished author Of the Humphrel
s blll. andwho vas the recognized heS
+ and leader Of the BaFksdale forces
p the late Senatorial canvass end WI
n is nos furnishing much Of The brail
q and perseverance, used ID hehall
7 Major Barksdales candidacy Z,
. Gov stones place, says. and VII
q ls better slill. furnishes the prop
Z releFeaces % sustain shat be say
's lhata chafteris q contract within Il
j meanine Of lhat clause 81 the FEEDER
Is Constitution, which declares the q
3 violabiliiy of contracts How cl
SiQma's candidate, whoever h6 ms
i Be, pursue & different course ths