Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-10-15

GGMatOE Oafm0Ck seems 10 buluk
be lie 3 second George Washington.
Our strenuous President Is
layed up with a boil on his shin.
AT least that Is what the country
doctors would call Is.
Sixteen dollars to eighteen dol
lars for a ton Of coal IN the Allan
tic States. Never touched u.s.
Our cOrdWoOd has not given out
yet.
A great deal Of argument has
beeA going the rounds that the
opportunities for lawyers we're
decreasing. Better read up on
the Stratton case.
Alger says he iavOrs the cleo
ton Of senator's by a direct vote
of the people. he is a little pre-
vious in his statements. After he
is in his ideas will change.
The New York Press says the
Southern Democracy is the head,
both arms and one leg Of the
whole Democratic party. Who
ever thought otherwisei
An increase of ell, 600, 900 in
the surplus and Of 1000, 900 in
custom receipts in September are
additional evidence that the tariff
would stand a little trimming.
The testimony Of that St. Louis
councilman, who was offered
800, 900 for his vote, makes the
records Of the Tweed days Of Tam
many '1Ook like thirty cents"
Trying to do business without
1.-THE use Of printers ink Is like
attempting to eat without an ap-
petite. You can throw as much
hope into the effort as you please,
and the result will be the same.
So many men try to make a
success in life by pursuing the
same policy that the well digger
is forced to adopt: by commencing
at the top and trying to dig down.
AS a rule they make 1t by sliding,
as the base ball fan would put it.
How the Republican voters like
to be fooled. Every time the poll
ticians Of that party meet in con-
vention they resolve in glowing
language that every time a trust
is caught expressing the people
it will be hauled over the Goals
and made to pay the penalty; but
look at the manner in which the
coal trust is giving it to every
body, and then note the activity
of the governor Of Pennsylvania,
who has the power to make its
managers dance, il he only would.
After all it may be questioned
whether the position or rather the
activity of the President on the
coal strike question is prompted
by q desire 10 assist ell the peo-
pie, or whether it is based on a
selfish desire to avoid q cessation
Of'business at the national capital,
where it is stated that there is
not enough coal in store to open
up business this winter. The idea
Of nation Of 20, 600, 900 people
being forced to close out their
business at the capital for the
want Of fuel, is q serious one in-
deed, and suggests that any cOun-
try is foolish that will allow COM
merCial relations in the prOduc-
ton Of the natural resources so
needful to be tied up in q contrO-
versy between the men employed
to operate and a few fellows who
claim for themselves ell the profit
that Is to be derived therefrOm.
The Columbus Dispatch says it
is not the northern capitalists that
are wanted il Mississippi, but
their capital, and adds that We
have capitalists enough without
the capital. WOuldn't it be bet
ter to have the two together
rather than to lose or DO without
bOthi As q rule q capitalist and
his capital go together, as few men
are satisfied to send their capital
into any section to work without
going with it and watching that Il
does its work properly. In our
humble Judgment, just ct this
time we need men Of action as
well as the means they have gath
cred by their careful endeavOrs.
And it does not follow that q man
must have 3 million or so to be g
valuable addition to any COM
munity. Wealth Is produced
only through labor, and the South
is very deficient in it's kind Of
wealth producing labor. A large
number Of people might be added
10 our present population, who