The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-06-19
FOR THE LEGISLA.
TURE.

Never in the history of Mississippi
will more progressive and intelli-
gent legislature be nee led than in
1904. The state is on a verge of a
great leap towards developments, in
dustries and enterprises that are new
to her people and that require judi
cious law to foster. The happy idea
of economic production both of field
and factory and the splendid local fac
ilities of converting the raw material
into manufactured articles on the soil
where it is produced is taking hold
of the people of the state and needs
to be encouraged by wise Legislation.
The advantages the state affords or
the manufacture OF cotton fabrics and
cotton seed products is Attracting large
mill owners with their plants this
way. They recognize the economy of
making the finished article in the Sec
ton where the requisite is at hand.
The saving of transportation charges
on the raw material and the small cost
at which force producing minerals can
be obtained affords a margin OH the
factory output that places it beyond
the competition of articles in the less
favored section. These extraordinary
inducements are pulling the mill cap
italists southwark, but laws favorable
to manufactures are necessary to de-
eide them to stop i'll our state. At no
time will Ethis disposition be more
manifest than subsequent to 1904, and
the legislature of Mississippi in that
year will largely decide what part of
the influx will locate here. Next
year this state will advertise her at
fractions at the greatest exposition
the world has ever known, will i'm
press her obvious advantages upon the
smultitudes that will be assembled at
St Louis and viii turn tide Of in
yestors hitherward whose first investi-
CATION will be into the governmental
conditions of the state. If the laws
are not wholesome and are unfavora-
BILE to the industries they contemplate
establishing, they will go elsewhere.
The above is set forth to emphasize
that Mississippi needs statesmen to
compose her legislature in 1904. The
citizens of every county in the state
should discard the ruinous belief that
because the position pays a small sal
airy, busy men would not accept it if
elected. This is not the case, though
it is true that men of this class will
not run rough and tumble hurled
race. The position is one of honor
and not of emoument. The small sal
airy is attached 20 meet the personal
expense of the member and is not the
only compensation for his services.
The man who so conStrues it and seeks
the place for the stipend only is unfit
in ability and mind to discharge the
trust or to bear the honor. The word
candidate should not be used lin con-
nection with legislative Office. 1t
should be misnomer in that rela-
tion. The people should invest the
position with dignity and honor by
9 calling lnen of peculiar fitness to rep
resent them and discountenance the
candidate who seeks the place on horse
back. Then and not till then, will
the best qualified men compose the
legislature of our state.
1T is reiterated that statesmen are
needed for the legislature of 1904.
Now is the time to set the ball rolling
to get them. We need them from
every county III the state SO that the
assembly will be uniform and harmon
ious. The press should agitate the
question and insist that the people Sc
lect them. Aberdeen Weekly.