The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-12
Gov. Lovfy'a inaugural Address.

Owing to the length Of Gov. Low
rvs inaugural address, we cannot
publish it in full but give the fol-
lowing synopsis and comments from
the Times Democrat, which will be
interesting:
The inaugural address of Gen.
Lowry, Mississippi's new Governor,
is full of craftsmanship and sound
political economy. 1t is heartily in
line with the Times Democrat and
a host of others who desire to build
up the material prosperity of the
South, who believe that this por
ton of the Union is great in every
species of wealth and needs only
development.
Gov. Lowry treats political mat
tiers in very cursory manner; in
deed his only remarks on this sub
ject are to show that perfect peace
prevails within the limits of Missis-
sippi and that the State is free from
any political excitement whatever.
BY far the greater. portion of his
address is devoted to the subject of
railroads, cotton mills and other
industries that promise to give the
State wealth and prosperity.
''The president or managers of a
successful factory" he declares,
sought to be more highly apprecia-
ted and honored by us than any
public functionary in the land"
Noble words these, and fairly rep
resentative of the ideas that thrill
the heart of the New South.
Gov. Lowry runs over at length
the various reasons that should
make the South the seat of the
cotton mills Of the country-rea-
sons which the Times Democrat has
urged over and over again and
which, we are happy to see, are al
ready producing some fruit. He
Endorses also the idea of new rail
roads, and promises the numerous
schemes now under way in Missis
sippi-the New Orleans and Nerd
ian, New Orleans and Natchez
Vicksburg and Memphis, Vicksbure
and Ship Island and Natchez
jackson and Columbus-all the aic
and assistance that Governor of {
State can lend them.
immigration the Governor thinks
another important factor that will
bring about the complete regener-
alton of Mississippi. That STATE
possesses q Commissioner of Immi-
grafton but has hitherto made NJ
provision of a fund for him, an(
this officer has in consequence, beer
able to accomplish nothing. Will
the outgoing Governor, Stone, ant
the incoming Governor, Lowry, boil
calling on the Legislature for al
appropriation, we can safely coun
upon that body's providing this
fund, and that, the flood of immi-
grafton will be shortly turned il
the direction of our sister State.
With cotton factories scattered
through the State, with railroad
entering into competition and car.
rying produce at the lowest rate ant
with a steady influx of immigration
Mississippi would be paradise in.
deed.
But this is not all that Gov. Low
nv demands for his people. Their
has been great improvement in tn
educational facilities of Mississippi
he declares. That State is now pro
viding excellent public schools 70
it's children. These schools are il
better condition now than they eve
were before; and it is noticeabl
fact that four times as many negroe
attend them as in days of Radical
ISM But with all these advantage
the task is difficult one. There i
such an amount CT llliteracy to over
come, and, as Gov. Lowry APPLY re
marks, "univetsal suffrage is tolera
BILE only when connected with I'm
iversal education"
The task of educating its illiterat
citizens, he is forced to admit, i
greater than Mississippi, in it's pres
ent financial condition, can accom-
plish, and he appeals to Congress
and to the charitable of the worlt
to help the State in its noble effor
to redeem from ignorance the hun
dreds of thousands of illiterat
persons in its limits.
Such are few Of the points il
this model inaugural message, an,
such are the questions which Gen
Lowry will devote himself to durin.
the four years in which he will b
the Chief Magistrate of Mississip
pi. With his energy, courage ant
determination, we believe he will b.
able to accomplish all he aims at
If he docs, mississippi will be, in
deed, the most prosperous, the hap
piest State in the Union.