The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-10-11
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT.
Sam Jones Takes an Optimistic
View of Present and Future.
He Thinks the New Tariff Bill q Great
improvement Over the Mckinley Law
Signs of Better Times-An Era
of Prosperity for the South.
COPYRIGHT. 1891


pleasure to me to note the improve
ment in the times for the last sixty
days. On every side | see and hear
signs of cheer and words of encourage
ment. How much the settlement of |
the tariff issue has had to do with it
cannot say. The tariff bill we now
have, to say the least of it, is great
improvement on the Mckinley tariff.
have talked lately with some mem
bers of congress, and while they freely
admit it is not all they desire, yet they
say it is long step towards the reform
of our tariff laws and wise adjust
ment of our tariff issues
1t is hard task to settle at this time
with the conflicting interests of the
different sections of this great country,
one section crying for protection on
this and another for protection on that
article.
When we are through abusing the
senate and our lawmakers and sit
down quietly and think over the mat
ter we will give them credit for an
honest effort and strong endeavor to
do the best possible thing under the
Observation-Disclosures, DuU luC luCLh Ttildln
that things are looking up and looking
brighter on all sides. l note this first:
The fact that almost all trains on
which l have ridden lately are crowded
with passengers. The numerous
freight trains moving from one end of
the road to the other. The crowded
resorts and well patronized Chau-
tauquas, and so on and SO on, giving
evidence of the fact that all things are
loosening up, and after all there is life
in the old land yet.
note again the more cheerful tone
amongst the business men, bankers and
manufacturers when have met here
and yonder. They say the rebound has
come, that times now will improve;
they look for better things.
Again, / note that the growler is rel
egated to the rear. His neighbors have
lost their respect for him, but he seems
to have no self-respect and he is now
fixing to change his tone.
Again, | note that more money is
being drawn from the banks for legiti-
mate purposes along the line of trade
and manufacture.
ARdlu, uOuc tildt All Lue TdllTOdu
securities, stocks, bonds, etc, are ad-
vancing as the reports come in of in
creased earnings and better business as
reported by the operators of the roads
Again, note | am feeling better my
self. l am but one of the sixty odd
million of people in this country, yet
am one with sensibilities, with eyes,
with work to do, with life to be
made.
We partalse largely of the nature of
our surroundings. While we are not
chameleonsoand cannot take on color
from objects which surround us, yet
we are not impervious TO the views and
conduct of others.
1t has been my privilege to mix and
mingle with almost all classes in the
commercial, manufacturing and finan-
cial world, and the aggregate consen-
sus of opinion is we are rising above
the depression which has SO long over
Swallowed us. Day is breaking at last.
The south especially has reasons for
happiness and gratitude. Scarcely in
the history of the thirteen southern
states have we had such generous crops
GNU ~ luuCu as IlCulbuIdl prosperity
Our fields are loaded as scarcely ever
before, and this at time when not
more than half a crop of corn is made
in the corn belt of the middle and
western states.
Our corn will command good prices;
we will have much for sale.
The eyes of many are turned towards
the south now, and / believe in the
next eighteen months we will move
out upon an era of prosperity such as
the south has never known before, for
VIC have resources we have never
touched and sources of wealth which
have never been developed.
Again, we have n better citizenship,
all told, than any section of this coun-
try; we are free from the anarchist and
conmunistic spirit which curses many
of the eastern and western states.
The brother in black is good citizen
compared to the many who despise our
laws aud would overthrow our institu-
tion really the brother in black differs
more from his white brother in the
couth in outstink than he does in his
instinct The negro is not bad citi-
zen.
Our genial climate, our productive
soil. our fruits and flowers, berries and
banks, our persimmons and ginseng, our
possums and potatoes our mountain
corn, our parched COOLERS, our ma My
men and our womauly women can't be
beat this side of the stars.
We do something, however, that is
wrong. Mob law and lynch law can
work no good to moral men or any COM
Inunity, and it is a fact that mob is
cowardly thing. Itgenerally exercises
its vengeance upon a helpless victim
whom the law would speedily convict
and the sheriff promptly execute. /
want to see mob try its hand on big
dog one time. like. our governor Of
Georgia am against the whole bust
ness, and the south can make character
and help herself by ceasing all mob
violence. ! have a contempt for the
pharisaical editor north who can never
refer to the soutlswithout referring to
the distorted and vicious. statements
made by ftlle. Ida:Wells and her kith
aad kin. -A--..tt
There is mob violence and everything