The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-05-21

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dozen or more of which have been pro-
jected since the dawn of 1902, the re-
markable development of cotton gin.
ming, cotton goods, her turpentine and
rosin establishments, construction and
general shop works of railroads.
planning mills products, flour and grist
mills, her expanding cattle industry,
etc, all point to an ambitious height
for our State in the marts of trade and
manufacturing enterprises of the coun-
try. With the Inauguration of the
Good Roads movement, and the en-
ployment of labor saving machinery,
even to the extent of an actual contract
here in the Delta for picking cotton by
machinery, echo answers from far over
the hills of time: "There's life in the
old land YETI. And more there is than
is even dreamed of in our philosophy;
for we, of to-day, are but pioneers
with the veal of our State pressing
upon our hearts, and urging to effort
and enterprise, while Hope sits brood
ing like beauteous dove beside the
flower Of Faith in the dawn of
more glorious future.
With our own awakened energies
and powers, comes the hand of the
stranger to couple his strength with
ours; and while the State, rich in all
the potentialities of wealth, will not
languish for want of foreign capital,
she will welcome all that comes her
way. But even in this materialistic
age, there are some things remaining
which are without price and that money
cannot buy Mississippi rejoices in
the conscious power of her own large
native born population, whose loyalty
to their State and pride in her well
fare, the rank weeds of m Dn9y getting
cannot overshadow.
Her beneficence is shown in her
splendid eleem 0synary institutions,
her orphans asylums, hospitals for the
/ insane, institutions for the deaf, dumb
and blind and other proposed estab-
lishments of this character, giving
promise of advancement; while like a
Star of Hope to the waning visions of
our revered old soldiers, now arises
from the ashes of the Lost Cause the
stately white mansion of Jefferson Da
| Wis, to proclaim to the true and tried
veterans of the gray that peace and
rest, "under the shade of the trees !,
| may come to them this side of the
river of Death, ere "the soldier retreats
i to his quarters, the grave.
\ Meanwhile the instinct for literature
is fourishing and being nqrtpred in
fields esthetic. When one takes such
pains to Investigate, as our alert
agent (for instance OF back-tax fame,
there may be found veritable volumes
of native literature, of poetry and song,
rejecting transcepdent natural ability;
and Mississippi has contributed more
and has more to contribute to literary
fame than her own people are now
aware. The new department of arr
chives and history with it's headquar-,
ters in our million dollar capital, is an
inspiration to the erudite student. and
will, no doubt, convert that mansion
into Pantheon of Mississippi great
ness.
But, at last. while we cherish as
pearls Of great price every projection
of every enterprise looking toward the
! ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of our beloved State,
the real value Of her resources and
prospects for the future 90 pot lie
lin the facts the mselves; but Ia The