The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-02-05
THE STATE PRESS.

n under the delusion that he was
: democrat. To him is accredite
i. the populite measure, postal saving
/ banks:
Senator Money, of Mississippi, wa
! the originator Of the Postal Savin
! Bank scheme. As chairman of tb
mouse co mmittee on postolfices an
Postroads. he repeatedly urged legis
: iatlon in that behalf, and the matte
was considered by congre IS long be
lore General Gary ever heard O
IL or the country ever heard of Gene
raj Gary.
Or all the Joneses we know not
one have we known of too much. but
nere is one Jones that is obnoxious
10 say the least, and to the Oxford
Globe is due the exposition:
II seems that representative Jones
OF Claiborne is indeed welded to his
idols the Clan McLaurin. When n re-
solution was introduced by Mr.. Glover
10 the house to investigate drunken
ness In high places, he objected to
an investigation. And again, when
charges and proof were brought di-
rectly against Judge w. X. McLau-
rin as being rnaudlin drunk in a
number of places, this man Jones
Ihen objects 10 prosecution. We
feel satisfied that this man does not
represent the law-ablding element of
MS country, and should be turned
down by his constituents.
okolona, the moral CO town of
Chikasaw has bad case of that
afiliction chronic In Mississippi pro-
hibitIon towns. From the OkoIona
Sun:
We notice with sadness the grow
ing evil of intemperance among the
youth OF our town. We have never seen
boys IN their teens so demoralized
by drink as during the past few
weeks. The question is where do
they set their lIquors This ls a
prohibition town, and should be
exempt from such things. The
number of jugs brought in by the
daily express may account for 1t.
The Rev. Mr.. CarsweIl when last in
Okolona told us that he had travelled
from Texas to Georgia recently, and
seen more dissipation in OkoIona
than in all the places put together he
had.wsited.
Say the jackson correspondents of
the New Orleans Picayune:
AT high noon today Mississippi
had had just two years of this admi-
nistration. Four hundred thousands
of dollars have been authorized to be
borrowed to feed depleted treasury
and meet the current expenses of the
state government. No public i'm
proVement has been made. The
statehouse is dangerous" and leaks
even to the ground floor. Taxation
has been increased. Thousands of
dollars have been spent at this ses-
sion of the legislature in discussion
OF resolutions to investigate official
drunkenness in high places. What
VIII the next two years bring2 In the
meantime the taxpayers are sweating
blood.
The following communication pub
lished In dry county tells how pro-
hioition works ''in some places, "says
the Vicksburg Herald. 1t illustrates
The endless chain of arts, by which
law which seeks to enforce an i'm
possible theory is evaded:
"ln some places the express Off
ces are the blind tigers of the town.
The agent finds himself to this un-
holy business. For commission of
twenty per cent. he become the agent
OF some whiskey house during the
Christmas festival. He sends to the
house long list of fictitious names
Tor whiskey In packages to suit. In
comes real, live men, who want to
order jug by wire. "All right"
says the agent, and the man pays
the agent 20 cents for the telegram.
i he agent pockets this, and promi-
ses TO have the jug on the next train.
Before the train comes the agent la
oels one of the jugs already on hand
TO suit. He gets his commission and
20 cents for the telegram. In this
way he covers up his tracks or he
thinks he does. There ought to be
some way to stop this awful busi
ness"
Every paper in the state that has
dwelled on the subject is in union
with The sentiment contained in the
subjoined, taken from the Scranton
Democrat Star:
The proper thing for Judge w. X.
McLaurin TO have done when the
charge of drunkenness were prefer.
red against him in the legislature by
Mr.. Glover, would have been to have
called for an investigation if he was
guiltless. But it seems he and his
friends were rather disposed to pre-
vent the very thing he ought to have
demanded. AS the matter now
stards, the public believe the charges
to be strictly true. and Judge Nc
Launn's reputation for sobriety is
anything but rosy.
The daily Star says the open saloon