The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-09

flce at Meridian, is neatly printed
and we'll edited sheet. It's field o.
usefulness is only limited by the lines
Of the state and the writer expects
great good to be accomplished. I'm
der the caption, "Greater MISSISSIPPI
pi," the following splendid article
appear on the first page Of last issue
Mississippi is today at the apex
j of her achievements and consequent
prosperity; the development OF he1
chief sources Of wealth has not been
partial or one-sided, but whole, well
rounded, complete; the past three
years has marked great upllfe, en-
bracing every interest, business and
calling; and every class has shared IN
the benefcent bestowment OF a com
mon prosperity. The farmer has made
money; the merchant has enjoyed a
brisk trade and made good collec-
'tions; the banker is satisfied with his
dividends, while the manufacturer IN
every line has booked all the orders
that he could ill at satisfactory
prices. These healthy material con-
ditions have been reflected in hap
pier social condition, evidenced in
more comfortable homes, bigger and
better churches, longer school terms,
better school houses, equipped with
better Furnishings and better teach
ing.
"This happy and prosperous con-
dition is not due to any fortuitious
circumstances or discover of any new
source of wealth; there is in it all,
not the remotest suggestion of the
western boom, but it is, on the other
hand, the logical result of compelling
causes that had been silently gather
ing strength through years of adver-
sity; it is the embodied triumph of
The courage and faith and fortitude of
brave and loyal people who clung
to their birthright, meagre as it seem
I'd to be, and transformed it. into the
precious possession that is theirs to-
lay.
Some southern communities have,
at intervale, during the past quarter
Of a century, blazed forth in a daz-
cling glare of prosperity that but
leepened the shadows of adversely in
which our people were painfully work
ing their way toward the light; and
now and again we would hear a voice
from these luminous heights Gliding
us for our lack of enterprise, our I'M
progressiveness, our inaptitude in
selling and improving present oppor-
5unities; we did not~yield up our in
1eritance for the glamor Of the hour
The Mississippian believed in the cap
abilities of his soil, his forests, his
pastures and his streams to furnish
forth resplendent estate when their
resources were developed; and while
le offered every legitimate inducement
20 outside capital, enterprise and in
lustry to come and help and hasten
his development, he did not proffer
his estate in fee simple, for the price
IF an evanescent splendor, nor did he
yield up to the stranger to be exploit
I'd for his own enrichment. He had
faith in the ultimate realization of
lis abundant wealth and with patience
perseverance and hopefulness labored
constantly toward that day, which
happily now, has dawned and he has
right to rejoice in the rich reward
that has come to him.
Son every side are seen the tangi-
BILE results Of this patient labor and
steadfast purpose. The frame farm
house occupies the site of the ancient
cabin Of logs; the smoke house is full
Of home grown meat; the cribs are
full Of corn, and sleek cattle browse
On every hillside; there is music in the
parlor and books upon the shelves !;
the children are at school and my lady
goes visiting in her own buggy.
tIn the cities and towns Of the
state the signs Of a like prosperity
are even more manifest; electric lights
and water works, undreamed of luxu-
ries in the past, are now regarded as
necessary equipments for every town
out Of the village class; a population
Of a thousand justiies the establish
ment of a bank, and there is not a
town anywhere that is not reaching
for larger manufacturing equipment,
The graded school system, rounded out
with high school, is the common ed
ucational provision, while every am
bilious village not on railroad, has
one chartered to its gates, and is firm
lily resolved to build it.
"In the lumber region, land once
only valued for stumpage, is now be-
ing sold at good prices for agricultu-
raj and horticultural purposes; truck
farms and orchards yielding rich re-
turns are multiplying around every