The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1885-12-05


several Of our young Mississippians are
..s,.riug to go into sheep husbandry."
r. q. ,b,pk it about time to mix a little
IN, n the cotton as it will be little
,.tter for the sheep and not : bit worse
s,tbe j. cotton. Yes, farmers, raise sheep
.,a oigs and calves, and have mutton as
u v.ll as wool, milk and butter and beef,
nleutiful at home and some to sell, and.
hon ask us what we think Of the change.
!, Providence had fixrd the climate and
III Of this s uthern country, SO that
pothipg but cotton would grow, we could
.ccept the decree as beyond our change
Int when we look over the map eof the
alohe and see that no place on the wide
creen earth offers more inducements for
mixed husbapdry, and a happy prosper
Gus people. than our own state and then
Gee nothing on our streets for sale but
cotton, we feel asif We deserve the re
tributive adversities of poverty,ignorance
and we are almost tempted to say-of
crime. Talking of Deity on his universal
mower and intelligence as the first cause
i practical mistake it is cotton, and
we have mistaken the cause for the ef-
feet, When we see great journal in
ou state devoted to urging the fact, and
scotton convention gotten mp to empha.
sise it. and a cotton. exposition 10 New
Orleans to prove it, We feel that we are
tied hand and foot in progress Let US
ask the Examiner why mislead these
young Mississippians to go into the sheep
business, when you, never hear tofsuch
things lalked of, spoken Of, Or written Of;
but let cotton boil blow out, and see
how anxious everybodyis to run to the
press and announce the fact, while
at tho same time q merino buck from;
Spain to saxony, costing $500, would
not have been mentioned, nor bull
from Jersey or .Holstein costing$2
would have to be- heraled for public ap>
proval but by the owner coming in and,
paying the printer for tho ANNOUNCES"
mont. We would like to whisper ID the
ears of Sam Jones and Sam Small, or any
other Sam, small or great, and every
other man that breaches that God is
God, to pause andSask how many people
in this country fall practically down and
idolize cotton as the supreme good, if
not the supreme cause? Cotton is a
good thingsand so is whisky, but whena
Christian people make mercenary idol
Of one and an unmitigated curse of the
other, we think they are flying off at
tangels both ways Mammom stands
to-day personified in cotton, ~ well as
the devil is in whisky; but the one is
potent and respectable disfcation.i in cir
cles OF fna CO and wealth beyond the
logical powers of our theological schools,
carrying poverty in our Sunday>schoo!s,
churches, and benevolent institutions,
and yet no good man raises his voice to
say that we are real worshippers of man
mos-abstract friends Of God, If Gods
name was called as often as cotton, and
if our best churchmen would call up the
solemn injunctions of the decalogue, often
as they do the reports of the cotton mar,
ket, what fine people we would be!
Such is our splendid civilization, such in
some respects is our religion. These are
not everyday sentiments either in
thought or language. and yet they spring
from physical causes, that produce un-
happy ifnot immoral effects. These may
sem insane expressions, and yet they
force themselves at times upon our ideas
despite the fearful maledictions of some
people, wise beyond what is written.