The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1895-08-10
A GREEN TuRNIp.

! Speaking OF Col. Hookers speech Mt
/ Bay st. LOUIS the other day The Sea
Coast Echo, gold bug paper, says:
During the course of his remarks he
said, "What God hath joined together
let no nau put asunder," in other words
let no man separate silver and gold be-
cause they are found side by side This
is very beautiful insofar as sentiment is
concerned, but is it not rather fallaciousi
Sentiment can play no part In the rise
and fall OF tho sea of commerce, Col
Hooker must have forgotten that all
metals are pretty closely allied. Lead
! and silver fields lie side by side as vel as
silver ana gold, but is that why lead
should be as valuable as silverl Let the
Colonel walk over his farm some morning
and he VIII see number of things grow
lag together; he will see the turnip side
by side with the cabbage, does 1t follow
that the former is as valuable as the lat
| ter.
"Tho Echo man drew an unfortunate
simile. Certainly the turnip is az vaua-
BILE as the cabbage, if not more so. The
turnip, like silver, is the poor mans
friend, for on the turnip and its salad top
he feeds hls family and his stock very
largely. Millions of acres of turnips are
cultivated every year, both in this
country and III Europe, and that 1t is u
more nntricious and digestible article Of
food than the cabbage, all physicianslwill
agree. The cabbage is pretty good eat
ing occasionally, bnt the most common
use to which IL is put is to either shave it
up into sauer kraut lengths, or make
''beads" for editors Of gold bug papers. -
Jackson Clarion-Ledser.
The great fundamental princi-
pies of gravity is as far removed
from the Clarion-Ledger as the
stars from earth. In the pres
ence of the most preponderous
issue that confronts and affects
the commercial interests of
whole world it would be merry.
But we will raise no objection to
it's spirit of humor as in merri-
ness people of the Clarion-Led-
gers calibre find solace and con-
tentment, qualities so essential
for the maintenance of their men
tai equilibrium.
Farmers of Mississippi, this
"salad top" paper tells you that
the solitary turnlp is as valuable
as the cabbage to you and your
family on the same improvident
principle that it tells you the free
coinage of silver is better tb.,
our gold standard. Has the cab
bage, like our gold policy, ever
refused to befriend the poor man?
In all seasons of the year il
springeth from the ground as
dew from the heavens! But can
the same be said of the turnip?
NO! and yet our contemporary
tells you that this vegetable, like
silver, is-Ts-the poor mans
friend! The Ledger unconscious
ly and unwittingly drew a good
picture of the money question; it
SHOWS It's side of the issue
with that exactitude which char
acterizes the reflection of a de.
feet mirror.
Ii The Echo really drew an
unfortunate simile" does it re-
fleet any credit on our contempo-
rary for having attacked it? In
an argument an adversary can
win neither honor nor applause
by deliberately selecting an erron-
eous assertion. among reliable
ones, to refute. But even in this
our humorous contemporary has
failed for it seems to know as
much about vegetables as it does
about the financial question which
1t presumes to understand.
1t is an unfortunate fact that
all editors cannot be cabbages and
feel the benefcient forces of ma
ture and see the light, something
winch the poor ''turnip" in the
Clarion-Ledger's Office knows not
of. "o'