The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-02-15
immigration, Agriculture and the
Democratic Party.
HOLLY SPR

HOLLY SPRINGS, Feb. II. 1882
: 3TEssGs. EpIroRs: The following reso
lutions We're adopted with great unanimty
by the last Democratic State Convention.
Resotued, That we declare it to be thu
policy of the Democratic Conservative party
/ To encourage tue flow of immigration Il
. this State, and recommend the passage o
9 III needful laws and the making OF all neces
safy appropriations to effect this end.
Reaoiged That we invite the investment
Of capital and assure to it all necessary lega!
+ pr lection.
The candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and other State officers, placed
themselves upon this platform. In the can
vass that followed, this action of the Con
ve}tion was strongly endorsed and ably
SUI ported by our candidates, the press and
public speakers throughout the State
! Coanty conventions and their nominees
/ en- 3orsad them, and the voters at the polls
rat fed them by an overwhelming majority.
! WHAT did we mean by these declarations?
Su ely they were not intended merely to
catch votes-mere buncombe-No. They
meant that the party was pledged
to make the necessary appropriations
70 the objects named; that such a
salary would be given to the Commits
sio9er Of Agriculture aud Immigration as
woeld secure tue best talent in the State,
and money enough given to accomplish the
OBJ cts of the resolutions. The CLARION,
and so far as the writer remembers, every
Democratic paper in the State, directed
special attention to these resolutions.
Nooc, we have some papers crying out to
the Legislature, to ego slow on immigra-
ton; 90 slow on agriculture" This looks
like repudiaton; and if needed, it will re-
suit in great disaster. to the Democratic
party, aud be a serious reflection on the
good faith and honesty Of our public men.
When men high in the public confidence
exhibit bad faith, the people lose confidence
in each other, and we do not know whom to
tru t. The bond of union is broken, and
dis migration sets in, and ruin and death
soon follow.
The writer is not farmer, but was
member of the Convention; and afterward,
in he canvass, held up these resolutions as
proof to the people that the Democracy was
alive to the great wants of the farmers, and
was for liberal and progressive policy.
Confined to the practice of the law, be con-
fesses that il is only within the last few
years that he has given to these questions
of immigration and agricultural improve
ment the consideration they deserved. The
prostration of our greatest industry, and
the people getting poorer every day, caused
him to look carefully into the legislation
and policy of our Western States; and the
more he examined the subject, the more
convinced he was that we should adopt and
pursue the most prompt and decisive meas
urts. Our labor in all the uplands is fast
lea wing for the bottoms and west of the
All the evidences around US
the continued decline in value of all real
estate, if value it has-the thousands of
acres of uncultivated lands for want of la
the deplorable condition of our
dependent aud discouraged people-all de- :
mand that we should urge immigration and
the introduction Of capital, by every means
ia our power.
II we are active in our w0Tk, raise va
riety of crops, encourage manufactures aud
fact, if we will carry out the
policy outlined by our excellent and popu-
lar Governor, all will yet be well.
PRoGREss.