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

the Southern Tariff Association
can aud does fix an insurance
rate upon our property at their
own sweet will. II is thought al
one time that BY repeating the
law requiring each company to
deposit twenty five thousand dol :
lais in the state treasury for the
protection of policy holders, that
new companies would enter the
state and competition would re-
duce the rates OF insurance.
was in the legislature in 1890
when this law was repealed and
| predicted then that the repeal
OF the law would not have the ef-
feet desired. / favor liberal log
islation to foster and build up
home companies to the end that
this vast drain upon our resources
may be saved to our people. -
favor a liberal support of our
common schools because | be-
lieve that the state can confer no
greater or more lasting benefitup-
on her people than that of good
education. 1t is Of the first inn
portance that the common schools
OF the people be maintained with
the highest degree OF efficiency.
The present system OF distribute
ing the common school funds Of
the state, has proven in practice
unequal; an inequality which
was manifestly not anticipated
when adopted. The system should
be reformed upon a basis equita-
bic and just TO all the counties.
am in favor Of supporting our
university at Oxford, because |
believe tits doing a splendid work
TOW ard the higher education of
our people. | am in favor Of
literally supporting our girls
college at Columbus, because the
women, God bless them, are the
salt OF the earth, and | know Of
no broader or firmer foundation
upon which q state can found its
greatness than an educated wo-
manhood.
Some great writer has said
that; Let him who would write
q nation's s laws, provided only
he could write her songs, +" but Ill
tell you that her laws would be a
dead letter upon the statute books
and her songs would be sung in
vain, did noG an educated Chris
tian womanhood preside at the
domestic fireside Of her people.
For at least the poet was right |
who said that
"They say that man 10 mighty; he rules
on land and sea-
He wields mighty scepter over lesser
powers that be.n
But mightier power and stronger man
from his throne was hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle Is |
the hand that rules the world."s
| favor liberal support of our
Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege at Starkyille, because it is
educating at small expense
number OF our young men who
otherwise would not have the ad-
vantage Of a collegiate education
and because | believe it is pro-
diversification of our
crops and the intelligent use OF
fertilizers throughout our state.
Some day each rood Of ground I
in Mississippi Will support its
man, and he viii be the greatest
benefactor who can make two
blades Of grass grow where only |
one grew before.
But am especially anxious to
see the mechanical side Of that
college developed. wish to see
our boys accustomed to machin-
cry and the intelligent use Of
5ools. There is better time
coming for Mississippi; already |
the great wave OF industrial de-
velopment which is creeping
through the Carolinas, Georgia
and Alabama is tapping the
borders Of our state, and / wish |
10 see our people prepared to
take an important part in the de-
velopment Of Mississippi resource
es. | want to see a textile school
in connection with
the College, so that our boys may
be taught the science and prac- I
teal side Of manufacturing. |
Fifteen years ago Russia i'm
ported nineteen-twentieths of the |
manufactured articles consumed |
in that empire; at that time she
schools of the kind I |
have mentioned. and today man.
ufactories are springing up all
over that empire, and she is
at home a large per cent
Of the articles consumed. Our
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