The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-07-22
WHAT BILL ARP SAYS ABOUT THE GREAT
GOOD that WAS DONE
BY the Men Who Worked and Fourht
Against the Abeminable Lottery
Octopus.
Atlanta Constitution.

Louisiana is making progress
progress in education and good
morals. At money sacrifice of
millions OF dollars shs has rejected
the tempting offer made by the
lottery company for a renewed of
their charter. North Louisiana
did il. The yeomanry of the Hill
country were marshalled for the
fight by good men in the towns
and villages, and they carried
everything like a cyclone. There
has not been such excitement there
since the War. There has never
been such mastery eloquence on
the hustling and never did the peo-
pie come together with such una
nimi'y on any issue as they did on
this.
White and black, Democrat and
Republican, rich and poor, all
voted together This time and they
have redeemed the State from the
power of the octopus. have been
10 Rnslon again, where the State
educational convention ives held,
and there | heard all about the
great lottery canvass. and who
were ip it, and how il was man.
aged, and how it absorbed every
body and everything. There was
enough ahti-lottery eloquence to
make book-a book of speeches
Tor the school boys and college
boys to spout from. DR.. Palmer
gave them start last fall and IL
Inspired orators all over The State.
Ruston is charming hl'le town
OF 1000 people, nearly all white.
Ii is a brand.new town and quite
select. They don't exactly vote
OH applications for citizenship, but
a bad man is blackballed, all the
same, and can't get a start. There
are no rich people and no poor
people, aud everybody works, and
everybody seems happy.and every
body goes TO church when Sunday
comes. There are no saloons, no
jugs, no gambling dens, no rowdy-
inc. They have the best OF schools,
and besides have the eleva,ing, re-
ining influences of the Chautau-
qua and the educational conven.
tlon fer about a month every year.
Distinguished college professors
deliver lectures on science and art.
or read essays ON the problems OF
the day, and these are open to dis.
cussion.
| Women from the schools take a
wonanly part in the proceedings,
and pretty girls. with their gradu-
allng bushes thick upon them,
make recitalions and sing songs
and make instrumental. music at
Intervals as a dessert 10 The intel
lec'ual feast. | found 1t possible
for a scientist to entertain his au-
dience for an hour upon the "Mos-
quils,' and my respect for the lit.
lie contemplate insect has greatly
increased since. Ii the learned
professor could make so much out
OF a mosquito, what would he do
with an elephant or Mt. Vesuvius F.?
A young girl with a pretty mouth
and an alabaster throat Knocked
lbe mocking bird 50 perfectly that
a blind man could not have told
the difference, and yet there was
no strain, no puckering, NO distor.
} tion--the music just seemed to
whistle itself.
Rnston is in the hill country aud
is high and dry, and very much
like Middle Georgia in general an
pearance and in climate and pro.
dnclions. In going there from
Vlckshnrg you soon reach the over
flowed region, and then for thlrt y
, miles the roadbed is nearly all the
dry land in sight. In many places
the iron rails seem TO be resting
on the waters surface. Water
water everywhere, as far as The
eye can see. This water come:
from The crevasses, and it has sub
| merged hundreds of square miles
/, and ruined the crops of thousands
OF farmers. | was ruminatlng sad
, ly about this when a travelling
, companion said TO me-:
"How do your people manage iC
!. make living on those poor red
hills in Georgia 7 II looked to me
, like they would perish to death
Why don't they cut loose and
come out here where they cau
make someihing?'
/ My irlend,' said |, "our hill'
are poor, but just before | lef
home we were trying 10 get UP
: town meeting 10 raise some moneS
, to send out here to keep YOU
!, farmers from starving"
r He admitted that it was pretty
2 bad this year, but declared tha
4 they could afford 10 lose one crol
e in five. AT Ruston a visitor from
G The sugar cane reginn whispered
J. to me that it was at pity thcs,
Q hard-working farmers in the poo
hill country OF North Louisiant
didn't have a few acres ot good sll
gar cane attached 10 their farms.
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