The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-01-24
SAM JONES' LETTER.
Many Evils of City, State and Ma
ton Cited and Denounce6
Mighty Effort Should Be Put Foeth tc
Root Up Evil Wherever Found and
to Relieve u Much Burdencd
People.
loorYRIeHT, 1891

ROBBERY, murder, arson, ana SO on ana
so on.
A tree is known by its fruit. There
are trees that bear no fruit and there
are trees that bear good fruit and
there are trees that bear bad fruit. We
can have the second; we need not have
the other two.
In church and state there are no
trees that were not planted; there are
none standing to-day but such MS we
would have stand.
Where politics is debauched, both the
legislature and the judiciary will feel
its influence.
Where the law making and the law
executing power fail to see and do
their duty they will sooner or later
find they haven't the power to control
a mob or put down the rabblc. Good
laws are no laws unless executed. OH
Gals are no better than no officials if
they don't perform their duty.
No man can read the columns of the
daily press, things happening in the
social and political world, without Il
tremor of horror.
We may talk of hard times, five-ccut
cotton, bond issues and Clcveland's
stubbornness and dogmatic spirit or
commercial and financial depression;
but after all is not character hurt
worse than chattels, are we not hurt
ing worse for manhood than we arc for
money?
The infamics of Tammany hall and
her utter overthrow; of Tweed and his
ring; of New Orleans, with her nasti-
ness in municipal life; OF Memphis and
her hundreds of Illicit liquor shops; or
Chicago and her anarcbists-what are
these but the blossoms and fruit Of
trees we have planted and cultivated?
With courageous national legisla-
tive body that would handle vigorously
the immigration question, the liquor
question and the Sabbath question;
with the cooperation of each legisla-
tive body in every state, with each mu
nicipality brought into line, we would
soon see the sun of better day and
the moon of better night shine upon
us; the stars of hope and courage
would sprinkle the heaven like u
swarm of golden bees"
The patient is not hopeless. With
the vital and reserve forces of the body
polite, of the social body, heroic treat
ment will soon expel the causes and
root out the effects.
SIS there no balm in Gilead?" Is
there no physician there? may be as
earnestly asked to-day as it ever has
been.
A nation like ours, the most civilized,
the most intelligent upon the face Of
earth, can never prosper or be content
ed so long as the government demands
that the mails shall go upon the Sab
bath, Gods commandment ignored.
We can never prosper with the govern
ment i'll copartnership with the in
famous liquor traffic dividing the spoils
with the owners and runners of distil-
leries and saloons and fostering and
protecting their business.
We can never prosper so long as we
submit to the constant flow of emf
grants which brings it's poisoned cur
rent into every vein and artery of our
national and social life.
This was meant to be the home Of the
pure, the noble and the brave who
seek to be independent because they
were right; it was never meant to be
the dumping ground for anarchist,
communist, vice and ignorance of all
the nations.
| have sometimes wished that could
see rs God sees, why our national legis-
lature doesn't take hold of this and
other questions and settle them once
and forever. ! have sometimes wished
that + GOULD 1Apl- oy,1 Cod
why officials are unfaithfuI, why mobs
are necessary and ballot box stuffipg
and such deviltry is tolerated. ] could
then tell a tale that would make Amer
lea rise and mutiny. ! could then show
them whose dagger made this wound,
whose club made this bruise, whose
knife made this rent.
The democrats had, the opportunity
to do but now what, with majority
against them in both houses of con-
gress and democratic president. The
house is divided against itself and for
two more years at least we expect no
legislation upon vital questions which
touch upon our national life.
When the legislatures of our state
meet let us revise and regulate our
methods at the polls, let us revise and
regulate our registration laws, let us
fix it so that we know that the man
who is indicted into Office was fairly
and squarely elected. 1t is a shame on
u people to perpetrate IA fraud at the
ballot box.
Let the governors of each state com
mend and recommend such legislation
and the enforcement of all the laws
which tend to the upbuilding of the
morals and intelligence of the people.
Let them thunder their deuunciation
against all mob violence. Let them by
all the power they may have foster
and cherish everything that tends to
the betterment of man. Then let the
governors and legislatures have the
faithful cooperation of the judiciary,
of the grand jury, Of the petit jury,
of the sheriffs and constabl
A red nose governor or a swill tub for
a judge or gambler for a prosecuting
attorney or bum for a, sheriff will
only disgrace the office and suffer law
lessness to go unpublished.