The Brookhaven leader., 1890-09-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Texas State Alliance has repu
dated the Sub-Treasury bill.
Mississippi has a law for the pre-
vention of cruelty to- dumb animals
1t is pity it is not better enforced.
John c. Lambert, Robt Welborne
and Willis Lucas were appointed cleo
tea commissioners for Lawrence
county,
The Kemper Herald, edited by Miss
Blanche Vincent, thinks the Jewell
plan and the Australian ballot system
wifi solve the problem.
The Mississippi game law allows the
killing of deer and doves from Sep
tember LIST, to March LIST: Wild tur-
keys and cartridges, October LIST
to May LIST.
With some of the great statesmen
at Jackson the question doesn't seem
to he, how to place the suffrage on a
safe and permanent basis, bnt how
rot to do it.
One of tire packing and shipping
companies of Crystal Springs settled
up the seasons business on August
Est, and the net receipts tor tomatoes
VAS $2.06 per buslrel.
"Etlucation is the good angel that
Keeps watch by the poor mans door
and the palace gate, saving the
inmates from the temptations that lurk
beyond its charmed circle
Yazoo, the only Prohibitions county
in the Delta, had $2S, 9O5. "a in cash in
der treasury Sept. ] and the total tax
levy for State, county and school pur-
possess is only nine and half mills.
The days of dueiling belong to the
past. The present law is that if thine
enemy offend thee so forth and seek
him with club, or let public senti-
ment pass Judgment in the premises.
Memphis appeal.
If, as the anti-woman suffragists as
sert, the women of Mississippi have
not asked for suffrage and wouldn't
exercise it if they had it, what in the
name of General Jackson are the said
anti-wOman suffragists roaring so
about?
The presence of ladies at the polls,
instead of communicating" the ladies,
wetsM mean an end of vulgarity and
disorder at the polling places. True
gentlemen will respect, aye, defend
ladies from insult at the polls as we'll
as in their parlors.
Instead of trying to eurtail our
State expenses and fower our taxes, IL
multitude of resolutions and plans
have been introduced in the conven-
ton to increase the salaries of off
eials, and to increase the number of
Judges, and Legislators, so as to make
more places for brieflcss lawyers.
1t is all very well for the Conven-
ton to note as It goes along what the
press is saying about this or that prop
esition, but it shouldn't regard the
press's prejudices. Editors, like other
fallible mOrtals, have their preiudices
which are sometimes based on Meth
er sound reason nor common sense.
Some newspapers in this State are
so ridiculously inconsistent as to in
sist upon something heroic being done
to elevate suffrage and insure white
supremacy and then in the same
breath demand that the new COnstitu-
ton shall be submitted for ratification
to the mass of ignorant negro voters
whom it is desired 20 eliminate. Was
ever such nonsense heard of?
Hear what Chief Justice Ananias j.
Frantzy has to say about submission:
III the constitution is not submitted
10 the people for ratification We will
have no legal constitution. An honest
constitution will be ratified if submit
ted, and a dishonest one should not
be ratified" Judge Harris and the
ether members of the Judiciary com
mttee will no doubt feel very greatly
embarrassed when they read this.
The Australian ballot system,
which is just now being much dis
eussed, is the means employed in ex-
pressing the popular will in eleven of
the States of the American Union, in
rhe Dominion of Canada sd the Prov
ipees OF Ontario and Quebec, and in
all of the Australian Colonies-New
Zealand, Tasmania, South and West
ern Australia, Victoria and New
South Wales. It is also the law of
elections in Great Britain and Ire
Iand, France, Italy, Belgium, the
Duehy OF Lnxemborg, Greece, Nor
@ay' Austria and other countries, the
mh"le comprising a total of more than
eoo.ooo Of people. who elect by
y ~ she'r elective officers ana III.
.epfesslaasi' IS 81 .Aeit seyer.,l leo,
s-laRses.