The Osceola times., 1882-07-22
CrOps-POlitics.
CnIcKAsAwBA, July 10, 1882.

CHIcKAsAWBA, July III, 1857.
DEAR EDIToR: ! presume no top
ic at this time of the year would be
Of more interest to your readers than
that of the crops. ! can say that the
people of our part of the county feel
quite sanguine of good crop, al
though there is not so much cotton
to the acreage as there was last year,
but that they have is in excellent
condition, and should we, from now
OH, have good seasons, the prospects
are very favorable for an abundant
yield; half of the corn is laid by, and
the oldest granger in our neighbor-
hood will tell you he never saw corn
looking better in the past ten years.
/ assure you our farmers have learn
ed something from last years drouth,
and last winters overflow. There is
fully one half more corn planted this
year than was put in last. So long
as we are dependent ON the north for
our corn and bacon, Just so long will
we be in as great a bondage as the
freedman was before the war, and
the sooner we learn to raise corn
enough to fatten our own meat, the
sooner we will be out of debt, and
be free from the mortgages that are
now hanging over 50 many of our
heads.
After crops, that which agitates
the minds of our people most, is pol
itics, or rather, in this community,
the threemile liquor law, which has
been such complete success. Your
correspondent has talked with ali the
merchants at Blythesville, and they
all agree, in spite of drouth and the
late overflow, which had n tendency
to effect their business, that prohi-
bition has done, and will do much
good. One Of our leading merchants
told me that when liquor reigned su-
preme, customers who were in his
debt, would pass his store, go to the
saloon, liquidate their Indebtedness,
Vou know, you must square off with
your saloonatic if you want to get
your regular nips,) and put him off
until the next crop, who now come
in, settle up and take fresh start.
Allow me to say right here, Mr..
Editor, that there will be call, for
publication in your paper, from the
citizens and voters of this and sur
rounding country for Hon. II. NJ
McNeigh to become a candidate for
Representative in the Lower House
of the next General Assembly.
When Hon. ii. NJ. McVeigh made
the last race and was elected, tenn
perance was in its infancy, we think
it is now in full bloom and still grow
ing, and as he is acknowledged to be
one of the most competent and wor-
thy gentleman in the county, and
we furthermore claim him to be the
champion of temperance, sobriety
and morality, and Mississippi county
would be doing herself an honor as
well as Justice to the gentleman to
send him to Little Rock on next
September with rousing majority.
i = When the Hon. II. NJ.
McVcigh was elected to the lcgisla-
ture in 1872, Parson II. 7. Blythe
requested him to have a bill passed
by the Legislature prohibiting the
sale Of intoxicating liquors within
three miles of Blythes' Chapel; the
The bill was put before the House
and speech made in its favor by
Hon. II. NJ. McNeigh, and he was
laughed at, the members saying the
idea was absurd, just as they did with
his Insane Asylum bill when he first
introduced it, but he was with the
cause of temperance, as he was with
his Asylum bill; he knew he was
right, and had the ability to push it
through, and to-day the Insane Asy-
lum stands at Little Rock, an honor
to our Slate and monument to the
energy and perseverance, of its pro-
jector; 50 with temperance. lie with
other able speakers of the state, kept
ON delivering lectures and making
speeches all over the state, organiz.
ing Temperance Unions, and as a
result, there isn't county in the
! stat, to-day where the three mile
law is not, to some extent, in force;
almost every precinct in our county
has adopted it, and think our next