Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-05-12


Edltof Mississippi t.eader
The Columbian Exposition man
ayers have carped at the action Of our
State Legislature in not appropriating
Of the State fluids donation in order
to place Mississippi properly before
the world. There Is another side of
that question which | viii try in q
feeble way to present. DO not the
people know that had the Legislature
done that. that those who would have
had the burden to bear would have
reaped no benefit from il whatever :
That thousands, owing to the low
price of cotton, had to stand of other
creditors in order to pay their taxes,
and other thousands were bereft of
homo and all it's little minutia by the
foreclosure Of mortgages Would it
not oppear hollow-hearted to give
llibcralIy to aid the vanities of chica-
goans and leave the poor old Confed-
crate veterans who gave their all to
Mississippi In the late war, who laid
their lives on the altar of their coun-
try, paltry $50 per capital What
good purpose could have been accom-
plisheds We are ground down with
burdensome taxation until our lands
that ten years ago were worth $40 per
acre, can now be bought for $3.50 and
less. onryoung men are driven away
to other and more promising States
Tor are going about from pillar to post
hunting for something that will keep
badly aud soul together. Our people
are living harder than ever before
/ with no prospect of relief.
1t is true the cities are building up
and on boom, but it is at the ex-
pense of the country. And sooner or
later there will be crash of ruin and
desolation that will be piteous to be-
hold, unless change is made. You
tell us that the fault is with MS. 1t
may be. You say we raise too much
cotton and not enough meat and
1 bread. Alas ! we know it, but it is
too late. Our homes are mortgaged
aud meat and bread will not pay the
mortgages. The merchants will not
/ advance to the negro unless he plant
cotton. The commission merchant
will not advance to the retailer with
out a pledge of cotton.
Our hind sights are better than our
foresights and when those with whom
we have spent orr little savings begin
to hecter MS after our money is gone,
where shall we turn for sympathy
Our u. s. Senator makes 1900 bales of
cotton and tells us who make or B
| that we make too much. Can we have
any faith in anything else he tells us :
When our big Ikes make their thous-
and and then cry oyerproduction at
us, what can we say This thing, If
persevered Twill bring about a reign
of terror for somebody.
We know that the great money
lsyndicates have their armed legions
ready to pounee down upon us with
their bloody Winchesters if we show
our teeth. We know they Keep their
Pinkcrton spies in every corner of the
Union and are ready with their Cat
ling guns to sweep us from the earth
| if we offer tangible resistance; and
we know that the mighty soulless cor
porations of Europe have us in their
grasp and have bought up our states
men and through the influence of
Wall street are operating this govern
ment.' This is no longer govern
ment of the citizen but is now plu-
tocraey, government of the almighty
gold dollar.
The poor old Democratic party is
spotted all over with horrible colors,
and its look of innocence and integri-
lty ia gone. There's your Lottery
Democrats, your whisky ring Demo-
crat, your anti-free coinage of silver
Democrat, yonr high-tariff Democrat,
your free-wool Democrat, your sugar
bounty Democrat, your anti-Alliance
Democrat. (which last is in short an
anti-Democratic Democracy. Merge
the whole thing into one and say it is
the Jew Gold bug Bankers of Europe
against the free citizen of America.
Money on one side and muscle on the
other.
1t means blood on the moon, and
forbodes no good to the next genera
ton. even If this one eseanes.