The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-01-19
MISSISSIPPI PRESS.
DIVERS OPINIONS ON CUR
RENT TOPICS TERSELY
EXPRESSED.
Pith and Point.


consolation left-the time when men
lived to be Methuselahs is past.
New MrssIssIPPIAN The election
of C. B. Mitchell Speaker was a victo-
nv not for any particular faction, but
victory for reform, and all that was
best for the true interests of Missis-
sippi.
! VICKsBURG Post: The condition
in which the country roads In the
Southern States are kept is a disgrace
to the people. Convict labor might
be profitably employed in this direc-
ton for the next six decades.
STATE LEpGER: Many Mississip-
plans are preparing to engage in truck
farming this year. Some are going to
profit. others lose. Just here we ven
ture the gentle reminder that common
sense is lust as useful in truck farm
ing as in other emplOyments.
VICKsBURG HERALD: Those advis-
ing SOutherners to submit to the war
tariff for the sake of Southern manu-
factories, are about as logical as one
would be to advise cotton planters to
sell their cotton bales cheap, so that
they could buy their calico cheap
TUPELo JOURNAL 1t was in ac-
cord with the eternal fitness of things
that John Allen should have taken a
prominent part in driving the corrupt
municipal government of Jackson from
power, as he was special object OF
hatred to the men who composed it.
New MIssIssIPPIAN The proposed
blending of the courts of law and
equity in this State, should by all means
be contaminated. AS it now stands,it
often works a gross injustice. SUI
preme Justices Campbell and Cooper
and Judge Brame deserve credit for
their efforts in that direction.
ACKERMAN PLAINDEALER What
this country needs mostly and firstly
is less politics and more steady work
ers. Then there will be better times
and less grumbling. We send this
startling piece of news and sound
philosophy out, on the eve of the new
year and second it's adoption.
TUPELO JOURNAL: A reduction of
the surplus of European immigrants
to this country would be good thing.
During the year just ended 81 ,619 of
them arrived at Castle Garden. This
is too much of a good thing, as, ac-
cording to the younger Weller, " the
gentleman said when he was run over
by the car wheel"
kOsCIUsKO STAR: AT Present
ministers of the gospel are exempt
from road duty. Mr.. Hooker of
Kinds has introduced a bill to limit
the number who shall be thus exempt.
No doubt our public roads need i'm
proving, but we doubt if the proper
method of improving them is to make
ministers of the gospel work them.
DURANT DEMOCRAT An eX-
change says that folded newspaper
placed under the coat in the small of
the back is an excellent substitute for
an OvercOat. There is considerable
warmth in a newspaper, that's fact.
Many a man has become heated by
simply reading an article in newspa-
per; and at such times he wants to
make it hot for the editor, too.
NEW FARMER If it is the inten-
ton of our Legislature to call cOnsti-
tutiOnal convention, why not do so at
once and adjourn There is pref
ty general demand for a revision of
our constitution, and the belief that
such step is for the best interests of
the country is continually growing
and 1t would certainly be wise not to
delay a matter of so much impOr-
lance.
YAZOO SENTINEL: The Jackson
Advertiser says that Mayor McGill
was beaten for Mayor by only SO votes,
and that when it is remembered that
most of his vote was cast by Demo-
Gratis, his vote speaks well for the
faithful manner in which he has dis
charged the duties devolved upon him
for long term of years. Yes, that
may be true; but it doesn't speak
well for Democrats who voted for him,
Republican for many years.
VICKsBURG Posi-: A Convention
ought to be held. Several changes
and amendments are needed. The
appointing power ought to be taken
from the Governor; Judges should be
elected; and the suffrage question
should be settled. The Jackson
election, the Prohibition elections in
Kinds and YazOO counties, i'll fact,
every election we have had in the
State for years, afford arguments and
reasons for decided action upon the
suffrage question.
YAzoo SENTINEL We think the
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