The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-09-21

The writer is in receipt of many
letters endorsing the proposition to
establish a life insurance company in
Mississippi. w. G. Anderson, L.
Prentiss county, applies for policy
No. 1, and about one hundred others
have signed up the slips and sent
them in. The company could issue
one thousand first-class risks the day
It opened for business Our people
are awakening to the Importance oi
keeping as much of their money at
home as possible.
Closely following the disgraceful
and criminal exposition of the af
fairs of the Equitable in New York
comes the announcement that the New
York Life is just as bad. Negro of
fec boys appeared on the books as
having borrowed thousands of dol
lars. 100000 of doubtful stock was
transferred to ]. P. Morgan and Com
pany the day before an investigation
was to be made and then bought back
the day after. Enormous salaries Of
from 100000 per annum down, are
being paid men who are connected
with the gigantic pool recently ex
posed by Lawson. The whole system
is a part of, and being manipulated
in the interest of, coterie of multi
millionaires who are banded together
to control the money and markets OF
the United States. There is no doubt
about this IS has been clearly proven
by the expositions and Investigations
recently made. That further inves-
tigations will show the whole matter
to be rotten beyond the conception OF
man, is assured.
Last year the good people of Ms
sissippi poured into this gigantic mon
ey mill S2,G00,000 more than was paid
back in losses. This money is sup
posed to be held in trust for the po-
Icy holders, but Developments prove
that it is held fer the use of Morgan,
Rockefeller and Company, in manipu-
lating the markets of the country. Is
ii not about tine that the peop,e rn
Mississippi cut asunder from such as
scciations and kept their money with
in the confines of the state? That
two million dollars that was sent away
last year could he used to build up
our own country 10 a great advan
tage. This is a subject that deserves
the earnest consideration of every
man who has the best interests of
Mississippi at heart.
If there is anything more pleasant
to look at than another thing, it is
a well-tendel farm, with all of the
necessaries and conveniences of life
in an abundance The editor of The
Poplarville Free Press seems to have
found just such farm near Hatties-
burg, and belonging to Mr.. D. E. Nc
Innis. Here is the description of this
farm:
while in Hattiesburg the other day
we were taken out and shown over
the large farm of that hustling gen.
tlcman D. E. McInnis, and what we
saw was a revelation. Under good
wire and plank fence were $40 acres
Of land that less than two years was
covered with pine timber, but now in
a fine state of cultivation, with scarce
iy stump on II. Mr.. McInnis has
growing this year 60 acres in sugar
cane, and as fine as that of Louisiana;
50 acres in sweet potatoes, which
will make between 200 and 300
bushels per acre; 40 acres in corn
that will average 25 or 80 bushels to
the acre; besides twelve acres in cot
ton that will average at least half
bale to the acre; the entire crop
being on new ground and the most
of 1t planted late. 1t is safe to say