The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-06-19
MISSISSIPPI LAWS MI5-FIT
THE CO1STC COUNTRY.

eason through the glass of truth s
ulness, there can be no gainsay t
hat if we are to base our prog t
Iostications upon present indica- {
ions or draw our conclusions
rom the "signs Of the time," the
1897 summer in Bay st. Louis,
considering those Of the past, Will
be quiet season.
The same beauty, charms and
environments belonging
only to Bay st. Louis are yet Bay
st. Louis with all that is desira-
BILE, with ali apperaining to the
beautiful, indessoIuabIy with
the place. The same kind of peo-
pie that have for so long greeted
you with so gay welcome are
still here to have you visit again
and make youl stay pleasant, and
the same sea breezes that en-
brace by land the pine-ladened
zephyrs over sea- kissed sands by
day and night tide, still whisper
The same old welcome.
While Bay St. Louis as resort
for su;umer residents upholds its
popularity with vigor of renewed
force, the decrease of the tran
siont visitor or more directly
termed excursionist, is painfully
u 4 sssal;;-,is 2%1 seasol
on the decline, hipt cao72sa Y rsov-s...,
tolls by to make saIder the decla-
tion here made.
| The local railroad has accom-
plished every effort within its
power to promote the popularity
of the coast, foster its success and
assist in every conceivable form,
no praise too profuse and all de-
serving. Hotels and other hos
telries that on Sundays knew
naught but crowds to entertain
are today the same places as of
the ago-wllling to serve and stu
dying to please, and the same Bay
st, Louis awaits your visit.
1t would appear that time has
wrought a big change aad appear
ing so inconsistent that with much
prominence naturally arises the
Interrogation: Through what
agency this degeneration of so
healthy prosperity?
The reply is simple, for conclu-
siveness needs no magnifier; SIM
| lply this, our statute books are
burdened not only with too many
laws but scattered with restric.
tions that might mean well, hut
ultimately will detcriorate every
tendency to build and help pros
per the popularity of the finest,
the greatest of the Makers do
main under the sun. The gull
coast country and the state OF
Mississippi while officially one are
otherwise two distinct worlds
and where one law will rebound
to the welfare of one portion il
will prove detrimental to the
other.
The majority invariably rules,
and that tribunal where laws
touching this section are framed,
few are those trainers who ever
saw the coast country or possess
one iota of knowledge thereof
only that such place does exist.
Something like for instance that
1--WE know heaven exists and that
would we to try leglslate for its
benefit Why not bring forth q
tallow dip to lend the moon
power?
Alot of hilltop and backwoods
farmers, preachers and politicians
get together and each one with
that pride of having his own little
say become law, frame bill anC
for reciprocal friendship his col
leagues coincide,-a sort of a
mutual admiration society. Their
comes the crank, the reformer
the prohibitionist, the religionist
all extremists, believing to hear
their own voices. Enemies OF
the commonwealth
| While The Echo wishes to be
in league in the upholding of the
morals of the it place as vel as the
next one, yet it will not suffer ii
silence to see the perpertration OF
so rank an outrage as the sup
preston of the liberties of an in.
nocent mirth-loying people. "Tht
mind entertained by pleasure i,
free from the evil breeding o.