The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-04-05

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soil as fertile as the far fameo
delta OF the Nile; we are rich ID
the raw material and we belong
70 q race which has planted III
victorious banners upon the ram
parts Of every obstacle which
they have encountered. And vel
fellow citizens, surrounded as we
are with splendid natural advan-
tages, Mississippi stands today
like Midas amid riches. hungry
and poor. The reason of our
poverty is not hard to find. Take
our average citizen; he gets up
IN the morning and pulls on a
pair OF socks from Lynn, Massa
chusetts; puts on a pair Of shoes
from Boston, n suit of clothes
from Philadelphia; goes in TO his
breakfast, draws up a chair made
IN Chicago, to a table which came
from the same place; sweetens
his coffee from Rio with sugar
from Louisiana; takes a slice OF
ham cured in st. Louis, and but
ters his biscuit Of Minnesota flour
with oleomargarine which. comes
from the Lord knows where. He
eats South Carolina or Louisiana
rice. and even the very prits up
on his table were ground in some
northern mill He goes to his
stable and puts a set OF harness
from ST. Louis on mule from
Kentucky; bitches il to wagon
from Illinois and drives over to
his neighbor 8 and complains of
hard times. OF course times are
hard wffen everything people eat,
drink, wear and drive comes
from some where else, and only
the atmosphere he breathes "a d
homo commodity. The history
Of the world teaches us that no
country was ever yet permanent-
iy prosperous whose only ksouree
OF revenue was one crop. With
us cotton Is king, and we are
emphatically his slaves. Why
even the operatives who manu-
facture it get more than twice as
much out OF ii as the men who
make it.
Now want TO see all this
changed. want to see manu-
factories spring up in every
county in the state. / am in ia.
vor Of liberal Legislation for the
encouragement Of capital and
immigration to locate in our
The ordinance OF the
constitutional convention OF 1890
exempting manufactures from
taxation for period OF ten years,
expires in 1900. | am In favor OF
a constitutional amendment re-
acting this ordinance, to the end
that Mississippi may take her
stand where she ought to be, in
the front rank Of progressive
and prosperous states. But,
fellow citizens, immigration will
not come nor capital long abide
where security OF life and proper
ty are not given by the govern
ment.
| read some weeks ago in one
Of the leading papers OF our state
that the only thing in Mississippi
which was cheaper than four cent
cotton was human life. II is a
fearful commentary upon The
law and order of a great state.
We are accustomed to boast that
we live at the end Of nineteen
centuries of Christian civilization,
and that Christ and him crucified
is preached from Greenland's
icy mountains to India's coral
strand to a believing world. We
are proud Of the fact that our
Anglo Saxon forefathers wrested
with blood and iron from the
hands Of an UNWILLING king the
great charter of English liberty
in which hecrowning gem is the
right Of trial by jury, and yet,
strange to say, almost every
week we hear Of the bloody work
of some infuriated mob, until to
cap the climax Of our shame a.
mob has broken into the Jail in
our own capital city and threat
ened ostorm the penirentiary it.
self. Now fellow citizens, I wish
to say that ii | am elected your
governor, | shall exert every
power granted me by your con-
stitution and laws to put down
mob rule in Mississippi, and L
shall SO far as IN my power lies
redeem her from this foul sfafn