The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-28
whether the place to which he aspires,
be great or small.

The Kosciusko Star wants Mi.sissip-
pi timber manufactured at home: In
a few days the town of New Albany,
in Union county, this State, will ship
two solid trains of slaves to New
Orleans and one to Savannah for ex
port. 1t is intended to make all the
shipments on the same day and render
the occasion a gala one, each train be-
ing decorated with flags, bunting. etc.
We quote his incident as showing
that the immense timber resources If
Mississippi are coming into notice.
Our timber alone, if properly devel-
oped, would place the State high up
on the list of wealth-producers We
will never make the best progress in
this direction, however, If we merely
produce the raw material and allow
others to make it up for us. This
policy is as shortsighted as raising
cotton down South and manufacturing
it ip New England. What timber we
do ship we send up North, where it is
made. up into furniture and other
products and brought back to us, we
paying all charges and middle mems
profit.
The Clarksdale Banner gives expires
CT ~ nf ira "a
treatment of convicts: State convicss
| have been beaten to death more than
once, and now comes the shameful
news from Vicksburg where county
prisoner having only few weeks or
! days to serve. was actually beaten to
/ death by brute in human form with
sapling. We feel the blood rushing
! to our temples at the enormity of this
| brutality. What difference is there in
the barbarity of the Turk to the Ar
! menian Christian and the act of the
'hellion who beat the life out of fell
! low being? Why go to the far East to
intercede for our fellow man. when
right here before our very eyes afro
cites more becoming African savages
are perpetrated daily? The blame lays
, not with the contractor nor does it lay
with the man he employs to superin
tend the works, and yet indirectly
taey ought to be held accountable
for it. But the actual blame rests
! with the authorities who have the mat
F, ter of letting county prisoners to con-
! tractors for not insisting on human
! treatment of the men they hire out.
! Quoting the declaration contained in
! the recent interview with Jud ge Cal.
houn, printed in these columns that
ito inject the currency question into
state politics would be as silly as to
| make the views of candidates for state
offices on the Nicaraguan canal test
of Democratic qualifications" The
Viclzsburg Post SAYS: Judge Calhoun
| is right, but we beg to remind him
that the unqualified support of free
silver was made the test by the rece nt
so. called Democratic legislature of this
state, of eligibility for seat in the
| United States senate, and that Cover
nor Stone was virtually ruled off the
track" because he would not subscribe
to the financial doctrine of the popu-
| lists OF course. the advocacy of free
silver should not be the test of Democ-
racy in the next state campaign, but
Judge Calhoun will see that a stroug
effort will be put forth to make it the
test. To make free silver the issue in
local campaign in a cottou-producing
state. would seem to be uuwiss, If not
Ridiculous, but the free silverites seem
determined to make it the issue. While
the Post believes that free silver should
not be made the issue, it fayors meet
ing the free silverites on any battle
ground they choose, and. whipping
them out as they have been whipped
out in every state, except Idaho, where
the test has been made"
while neither the Nicaragua canal
or free silver should or need serve as a
test of Democracy, get we see no rea-
son why two questions frought with so
much interest to this country may not
be discussed in all their bearing upon
the general welfare, to the end that
the people may become educated to the
Importance of both. Don't be afraid
of the people, they want to know all
questions. 1t is the politicians who
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