Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-05-28
can take a drink out Of his flask and


and call the democrats into line, hitch
them to his little wagon, crack his
party whip end ride int0 Office. This
eoahtry Is bigger than any POLITICAL
party. Political parties have died snd
and the country has lived, and some
,Bsre Can die and the country will be
better Off by their death:
A storm pHsiRes the air. This storm
~ politics was necessary. The masses
of the people need to wake up; they
need to be informed. We need to in
troduce into our public schools some
good books on government, instead Of
devctlbr oof time exclusively t5 the
History of the past. We ought to divide
time and find ont something about the
present. The average young buck in
this corrtry knows no more about tho
politics of this country than Georgia
goat knows about the Sabbath. sup.
pose it Is good thirg that the women
are getting ready to swop places with
US, for II the people shall depend Upon
stump speeches or subsidized press
FOR their information, few more years
places, or we will have to turn our gov
ernmcnt over to an orphans home.
There seems to be no politician In
the field now that knows "where we
are at" Mr.. Cleveland and his in
dorsers think we arc in California, and
ought to devote ourselves exclusively
to gold digging, his congress has To-
X,1 L. III IA
thinks we ought to dig silver. The
people believe we are shipwrecked,
and il we don't soon come ashore we
will have to practice cannibalism. In
the meantime every fellow is looking
up his geography and his field glass,
with the hope that, when the next
presidential election shall roll around,
we shall be able to locate ourselves in
the land of the free and the home OF
the brave.
1t is ridiculous for the cry of pauper,
ism to go up from America. Mr.. Glad
stone, the great Englishman, admits that
we have the natural basis for the great
est continuous empire ever established
by man. We have enough arabic lands
to support billion of people. 1t Is
said that the whole Of the United
States could live comfortably In the
state of Texas The United States
raises one-half of the silver and gold OF
the worlds supply. We have iron In
twenty-three states, and many Of them
can singly supply the whole world.
Our coal Is inexhaustibl Our mining
industries exceed those of all conti-
mental Europe put together.
DIR. Strong estimated that in 1880 we
could buy the Russian and Turkish en-
pires, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy,
Austria, South Africa and South Amer
lea, lands, mines, cities, palaces, fac
tories, flocks, jewels, scepters, diadems
aud thrones, and have spending change
left; and yet we are the youngest ma
ton of them all, and for the past fifty
years have stood a four-years' war, lost
million producers and a billion dollars
in slaves; to say nothing of the other
property ruined and lost. 1t is supreme
ly ridiculous. for a great country like
America to send up the cry Of hard
times.
What we need is more brains and
common sense, and less selfishness and
trickery in our federal government
We need better financial basis and
better relations between capital and
labor and a greater parity between
money and realty, cash and produce
There never was a better time for
needed reformation than now. During
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and create peace that shall live hun
dred years and giving opportunity fol
wealth, prosperity and happiness com.
mensurate with the natural conditions
of this great country. SAM P. JONES.