Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30


pose that it is brought to the attention Of the man
agement that serious bitches take place, the ma
chinery gets clogged, does not respond adequately
to the power employed, and is in danger Of a smash
which will wreck the works, stop production and
bring serious loss to stock holders. The Directors
are about evenly divided in politics and the stock
holders are about two sixths Democrats two sixths
Republicans and two sixths widows and Orphans
Will the Directors, in deciding wnat ought TO be
done or n selecting the best men to do it, allow the
question Of politics to figure in any way, OF under
any pretense and would they not be criminally fool
ish in case they did sol Politics can have no pos
sible concern with the situation. The best advice
and skill are what are needed Precisely such is
the situation in regard TO 6naDce and currency. The
entire peORle Of the United States. Democrats and
Repubcaas, widows and orphans, are stockholders
in the present business prosperity. There are IN
mistakabie signs that the machinery By means Of
which it is carried aougthat is, the currency sys'
tem-has become antiQUsted and worn out, and
must be Overhauled. 1t is at times inadequate to
meet the strain put it, and it does not respond to
the varying demands Of the months. Govern
meDt engineer has the right, or assumes it, to inter
fere with the running OF the machinery at any time,
to quicken or retard it's motion, and to pour abund
ant oil upOn it's creaking joints or not, as seems
good to him. In other countries similar machinery
has been mOdernized, and runs without jar or fric-
tiOn, and does not brug, as is the case here, any
sense OF danger or risk TO the stockholders. All
are agreed Cnat something must Oe uOne, anu some
few, strange to say, trying to drag the question
OF what is to be done nt0 the Of politics, to
be determined by the methods prevalent there. No
such proposition should be considered for moment.
It is purely business question, without particle
Of politics it, except it is forced in by seseek
ers wiGng to ride TO place on q wave OF disaster,
or narrow partisans ready to prevent amelioratiOu
Of conditions, rather than that one party or the
other should be supposed to have gained credit by
helping to bring it about. Let the cool headed,
sensible, right minded members Of both parties an
xious to maintain prosperity, and increase it, gel
together banish political bias and jealousy, and Try
to do the wises best thing that be done for bus
mess and the country That is the surest way foI
both OF them to gain the cOuntTy's confidence, aud
not on "a economic question to form opposite camps
on political lnes each one OF which will oppose
whaever the other suggests, because the other sag
gests it, The day for tbatsOrt Of thing in dealing
with the great and vital interests of the country has
passed, and the man and the party which confines
i to practice it are doomed TO condemnation. Mean
WHILE it nust be said that the President would
have set 3 good example had he called leadiDs
Democrats into consultation, and not limited his ad
visers to prominent Republican Senators. MeKin
ley would snrely have dOne it, and would have me-
with cordial response and cooperation.