The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-02-14
OLD AND NEW YEAR.
thoughts on Experiences of the
Past and Hopes Of the Future.
The Peculiar Conditions Prevailing During
the Last Year Have Taught Many
Valuable Lessons-Sam Jones
Seasonable Letter.
lcoPyRIeHr, 1891


and duties neglected, memories of heart
aches and memories of pleasure.
No new yesterday in the history of
the present generation has ever found
us just Where we are to-day.
Politically, socially, financially, COM
mercially, conditions are anomalous,
more money than ever before and yet
scarcer than ever before. Strin-
gency and plethora, abundance and
want, over-production of everything
except men, and squalid want sur
rounding us on all sides. More clothes
and more people badly clothed, more
to eat and yet more scanty tables, ma
lSed and hungry amidst clothes and
food for the millions Well may a
drunken congressman ask: where am
at?' Well may we all ask where
will the first day of the new year find
us.
The thirteen southern states will
start into the new year less in debt
and with less reasons to go in debt
than any year in the last three decades
Mt least.
We have learned Pats lesson when
he had declared that he had learned
how to do without the things he was
obliged to have. Our people have been
ridden by debt until now, like Texas
pony, they buck whenever you would
put an additional load upon them.
Surely If we are wise tho lessons of the
past will suffice and we will live within
our means. Never was lesson taught
to us with greater emphasis than it is
in this the passing away year that we
should owe no man anything, but to
love one another
we fhve learned some lessons in poll
tics that will help to guide us rightly
through the new year and years to
come; we have learned lessons in com
merce and agriculture which will be
beneficial to us If we will only refer to
them as the months of the new year
shall roll In upon us.
Whatever the experiences of the old
year have been to MS If they shall only
teach MS the lessons of wisdom, econo-
my, industry and morality, we haven't
paid too high for what we have re-
ceived Of course thousands of our
race don't live to learn as they have
never Terrified HOW 10 i've.
The waning hours of the old year
find many heartless and hopeless, their
experience broken, their intelligence
paralyzed, with hope deferred, with the
heart sick, with success still far out of
sight. With many the waning hours of
the old year find them possessed of
strength of muscle, indomitable will,
and energies indefatigable; the winner
of the race is not always to the swift nor
the battle to the strong, yet courageous
will aud indomitable industry will
conquer thousand foes and make any
man hero.
All professions have suffered - the
lawyers fees, the doctors income, the
editors reward, the farmers aggre-
gated sales, the merchants profits,
have all been reduced to minimum by
the conditions of this old year that is
passing away. Churches have suffered,
schools have suffered, corporations
have been wrecked, private interests
demolished, yet amidst it all we find
heart and hope and dream of better
day.
The hew year will find us all turning
S' ~ - ~oN'
the new year well, perhaps but many
who Degm well ana many VINO have
carried ~ ON wen ior awhiie aon . ena
~ Wei ~ Is ehe "eli-aone' the weii-
com p'e.eo' inc weii-niiisheo WORK 'haO
prlngs Inc crown. :,
roor human nature win us ups ana
GOWNS Win us 'riumphs anu iahurcs'
with us rewards ana RUNS put we are
an human peihgs' each mas nus part 70
pay ny pauv'es " nEn0' anu .i'o 49,
lsn, nn9 ior1i'uue WIN "nion so Hs 10
ani enaa 4 t,s nausS ae asam i ne Ao e"eN
onr ""a' ''e ie""'u eii"', oo
Inc close OF TINS year snouid remind
us that' hKe 'ne ola year goes OUT ana
tne new comes m SO iliSewise snali TINS
NE, WIN It's temporal crosses ana re-
sponsioili.iss, soon go OUT ana .ne
o sss mor ,' Win " na,evef - 70 ~ US,
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.nc laee my ene ol's ~ .ay sh' u a
year tney never sd" peiore.