The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-08-28
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Jackson News, Democrat Star.
Gulf Coast Progress, Biloxi Re-
view, Biloxi Herald, Grenada, Sen
tinel, Sea Coast Echo, Cartha-
genian, Crystal Springs Meteor,
Greenwood Enterprise, New Al
bany Gazette, Newton County In
dex, Meridian Herald, Lumberton
Head Block and mentioned edito-
rally by the Terry Headlight, Co
lpiah Signal and Armory Argus.
Why is it that other prominent
weeklies and dailies in the state
are as silent rs the grave on the
subject? The trend of sentiment
in all the papers mentioned was
towards the fullest and freest in
vestigation, as indicated, and
marks them as safe friends of
people and moulders of public
sentiment. They belong to that
class which Edmod Burke meant
when he said: "Giye me but the
liberty of the press, and | will
give to the minister yenal house
of peers-I will give him a cor
rupt and servile house of COM
mons-I will give him full swing
of the patronage of his office--I
will give him Il trucking court. l
will give him all the power that
place eau confer upon him, to
over awe resistance and yet arm
cd with the liberty of the press,
| will 90 forth to meet him un-
dismayed; | will attack with that
mighty engine'the mighty fabric
be has raised. ] will shake down
from It's hight corruption, and
will bury it beneath the ruins of
the abuses it was meant to shell
ter. +" We are fully aware of the
gravity of the charges, and we are
fully prepared to meet them in our
own way and time, with evidence
written, duly signed and securely
kept, 80 that in event of our death
it will te available, and should
any mishap befall the sources Of
information we will be vindicated.
We are aware that a bare allega-
ton is otproof, but the rottenness
was there and it will be proven,
A wise and prudent general
does not commit bis plan of cam
paign to his enemy, and the as
tute councillor does not try his
case in public before the tribunal
to adjudicate the matter copvenes.
That there were good and in
corruptable men in the legisla-
ture is true and they can afford
TO bide their time, they are not
responsible for their own individ-
ual course, and are not amenable
to the charge. Some of our ex-
changes are in error; the charge
applies to the Fl rst regular session
of the Legislature and not the
recent called session--but the
action Of the called session can be
rightly understood when the do
ings of the regular session are
thoroughly known. We have no
vengeance to wreak and no AK to
grind. We are simply discharg.
ing what we conceive to be right
and patriotic duty. There was a
time when Mississippi had honest
men to make laws and administer
her laws, and whom the peo-
pie trusted. Civil war which is
the beginning of the country,
brought an irruption of rascals
that cling like barnacles to the
Ship of State; and unless scraped
off by the people, will send it to
the bottom, reeking with corrup-
tion. 1t is time for the scrub and
the ascal to be relegated toIoblivion
We are gong to turn on the
right and give the people chance.
No man can climb the ladder Of
fame so high, be endowed by intel
lectuality, so great, or surround
ed by coterie of fliends so true
as to be beyond the reach of JUS
tice. No recalcitrant man, or set
of men can stand against the
"dles irae' of the people. His
tory is replete with forceful ex
amples, especially in the case of
the celebrated Englishman, Sir
| Walter Roleigh, of whom it was
said: "Sr Walter Raleigh thou
hast been as star, at which the
worlds have gazed. But stars,
may, nay must, fall when they dis
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