Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-11-21

Ap( R-rJFLJ dead sea of apathy the vagary of
ignorance finds ite counterpart in superstition and
furnishes ghost dance for savage exhuberauce ard
clothes the hyprocrte with spectacular power of
perpetuity.
The cunning unprincira+d Politician furnishes
the music and the dance goes with the power of
He'll uudiminished year in and year out We have
been told it better to keep them in ignorance
and save their souls, but wonder if the size Of
the souls will pay dividend. We have been told
it was better to fnol into taking the right
road than to leave the fool with the Devil at the
cross roads. May be, but how abont leaving the
devil? 1t ia said where che Snus of God meet there
the Devil is also, you see that this leaving the
Devil is not 40 easy after all We have often won
dered after all il the Devil did not escape lot Of
cheap advertising under the word ignorance. A
man does not need much to know when he is
wronged by another. My bouse dog proves that
much Just how little must have not
to know right from wrong is question for experts
in charge of lunatic asylums to determine.
Personally, we are unprepared to decide when a
mans drops below dog sense. We
simply give it up. We inclined to the belief
that instead of the word being ignorance the pro-
per word is 'OussedDess,' and a low down dirty
cussedness at that. man must realize that he
possesses something how could he offer to sell it,
How could man sell his vote II he had 1t
will not do to say the man is ignorant for the
cares more for the money than he does for the hal
lot and that is all there is to it. The foreigner
knows what he went through to get the ballot and
the native born understands it also surely there can
be no ignorance about it, and no mystery all plain
enough, it is simply bargain and sale and both
the buyer end seller so understand it,
Words fail to express the black immoral, de.
graded, uDpatriOtic heart and foul nature OF the
men that deliberately buy votes. But, after all
that might be said, the voter is Particeps Crminis
as he furnishes in himself the political merchandise
for this obnoxious traffic on election days. This
buying and selling votes has reached it's highest
mark and the sign OF the times are that a change
has set in for the better, especially in cities.
Our city and county election has just passed and
the Republicans we're swept of the earth for the
time being. BOssism got it good and hard between
the eyes. The ward heller was on loaded with the
stuff usual. but strange to say the Doodle fluid
would not work and here we wish to note the sign
kor the better. "A lot Of fellows said. "They have
the money (Ward heelers) and il We don't get /
some Of it they will keep it. We might AS we'll |
have some Of 1t wherenpon they worked
tn the first place. Even some OF the s.heelers"
voted the Democratic ticket and the result was only
two Republicans we're elected in the entire comfy
hnd city. What does this meant Well it means il
e means anything that the money furnished by the
Bosses did not hold or change vote and it means
more than this it means that the average voter has
lot wise and takes the "stuf'' as easy money. The
Repnbcans scattered money like withered leaves
snd went down In diseraceinl defeat Yes, the
sBosees" will get next before long and the sBoOdle''
und diminish.
While these conditions point to rift IN the
IlOnda, nevertheless the corruption fund does in
heasure corrupt, bride and dehauch the most ig
Orant class, and to much can not be said in con.
lemnation Of the rernicious system. A fellow said
me: s'these damn foreigners that sell their votes
light 70 be shipped back " where they came
IOm.'' We said, you seem 20 Gee but one side o. IL