The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-07-07
81 90 PER ANNUM


become q maBufactgflno a. veil - -
1ssleai,afGl people. II We can produce
the cotton here and manulacturo Ii
cheaper than It can be done in Massa.
ehusetls, why should Il be sent of
TO Massachusetts, and our people
taxed with freights there and back on
The cotton and fabrics. The great OBJ.
lJect Of our State government should
now be 70 induce immigration and
capital to dow into the State. five
succeed in this policy, Mississippi
viii benome . great and prosperous
State, abounding IN all the comforts
Of life, the equal Of any other State
IN wealth, intelligence, lis educational
advantages and all the eleLlents OF
true greatness. tits the equal OF any
other IN soil, climate and natural ad
yantages."
We have celtaiuly waited lonQ
enough to learn that immigration and
capital win not iioW into our state
unbidden and without effort, on our
part, TO induce them 20 come.
A law organizing and regulating
the duties OF the Department Of In
migration and Agriculture should be
passed; agents should Be cent
abroad, and reasonable expenditures
ofmoEey must be made, II We are 70
succeed in accomplishing this grand
object.
The building Of new lines OF rail-
road would draw both capital and
immigrants into the state.
again quote from my letter Of
May, 1877, and reaffirm what / then
said l do not, however, conhne
my remarks to that one line OF rail-
road, but make them equally appli-
cable to oil other necessary and con.
templated lines.
We want a railroad starting from
Mississippi City, or the most eligible
point on our Southern coast, where
ever that mag be, and running norsh
through the centre Of the state, about
equally distant from the Mobile 4
Ohio on the east, and The Mississippl
Central on the west, TO our northern
border, aud there connecting with
some line running north. With such
line completed We would soon have
city on our Owl. coast, within our
own borders, at the southern termi-
nus Of this line. We would then
cease to pay tributes TO New Orleans
and Mobile. Exports and imports
that now seek other channels would
be turned through this city This
road, too, would open up to every
part Of the state, because II would be
connected by lateral branches with
all other main lines Of railroad in the
state, the immense pine forests Of the
southern part Of our state, in which
there Is much undeveloped wealth.
Its completion would not only add
greatly to the taxable property Of the
state, but it would confer lasting
benefits upon our whole population,
and make our state mo.e attractive
to the immigrant and capitalist.
But in order to move successfully,
in the right direction, in developing
the resources of our state, our peo-
Pile and our state government should
take less interest In national politics,
and give more Of their time and At
tention to home affairs, to our own
business and state interests We
have held unlimited control Of The
state government for ave years, dur
ing which time the national govern
ment has been under Republican
rule. and yet We have not been seri-
ously hurt by the national admins
tration.
With The state government prop
erly administered, we have but little
to fear from the national administFa,
ton. The state government hai
something more 70 DO than simply
to reduce taxes and establish com.
mon schools, and may add some.
thing beyond the development Of Ell
the material interests Of The state. Il
is the duty Of the state g0vernmeal
to protect the citizens againsl
wrongs and expressions from what
ever source they may come. That
corporations Of lie own creation e..
expressing the people By unjust dis
criminatiOns and oneFous bardens i
generally conceded. That It is with
in the power, both Of the state anc
national government, 70 pass laws
free from constitutional objections
which viii meet the emergency, sup.
press the evil and relieve the people
think, is unquestionably true, anC
very generally admitted. This dusl
should be speedily performed.
! have new, sir, briefly, and NOR,
By way Of suggestion than Of arRu-
ment, responded to the points EN-
embraced IN your letter, and be,
leave to subscribe myself, very truly
your friend,
w. S. FRATHERsT0S.