The Tupelo journal., 1906-01-19

WORK along systematic INES VIII accom-
plish a great deal in a short time, and
the lawmakers lave s~ystematized their
handling of the new code in a n
that makes it possible to dispose of it
in a thorough and in a reason
ably short time. Some much-needed leg
i~slation, and some that is not needed, has
been proposed. 1t is very likely that the
good will be weeded out from the bad,
and that the best will become laws. The
embroglio over the leasing of land or
convicts, as the case may be, and which
has attracted so much attention recently,
will be effectually settled for all time to
come. A bill to that effect will become
a law, having passed the House with only
two votes AGAINST it and the Senate by
a good majority. Confederate veterans
will get as much or more for pensions
than before. The public schools will get
the same without a dissenting voice. A
Department of Agriculture and Immigra-
ton asked for by the business o%rganiza-
tions of the State, and the Cotton Asso-
citation, will no doubt be created. This
is a much-needed department, and
should be worth thousands of dollars to
the State annually. Jackson and Vicks-
burg will likely get charitable hospitals,
which is a needed provision, our charity
patients for years having been dumped
upon Memphis and New Orleans. A coal
oil inspection will be provided for, from
present indications, which is a needed
regulation, oil condemned in other States
being dumped upon the people of Missis-
Bank Examination will be proposed, and
may become a law. Opinion as to the
necessity of this law is divided, some
%contending that finance in Mississippi has
not yet arrived at the frenzied stage
requiring special and regular investiga-
ton. Others are equally insistent that
it is needed. Matters of general interest
and of a non political nature will be
handled in this department from week to
week. The writer is in a position to
know something of what is transpiring.
In a letter to the writer a few days
since, a gentleman connected with the
Agricultural Department of Louisiana
made some pertinent suggestions as to
the character of immigration desired in
the South in general and our section in
particular. The subject matter. of his
letter was that we did not want a low
class of foreigners that would affiliate
and miscegenate with the negroes and
grow up a race that would be hard to
handle and bring on a race problem much
more serious than the one with which we
are now confronted, but that we wanted
good white citizens who are willing to
work and are looking for a country where
they can buy land, own their own homes
and enjoy life. The gentleman is correct
from every standpoint. We need people
in Mississippi who can take twenty, thir-
ty or forty acres of land and get there
from a substantial and comfortable liv-
ing for the family. There are thousands
of just such families in the older States
to the North and West, who would be
delighted to come here and make their
homes if they only knew of the many
and varied advantages of our State. They
are the best citizens, aud would take
the waste land of our country and
make it blossom like a rose. The only
trouble has been heretofore that there
was no means by which the advantages
of our State could be made known to
them. The proposed Department of ,Ag-
riculture and immigration, if created
along proper lines, will greatly relieve
that situation. There is a great work
to be done, and it is high time that I'll
people realized the fact and were up and
doing. *
Government engineers have arrived at
Burnside, in Neshoba county. purchased
a boat. employed the necessary forces,
and are making a survey of Pearl river,
with the view of securing appropriations
for its improvement. No work has ever
been done on the stream between Burn
side and Edinburg, all operations in the
past having been confined to work below
the latter point. This looks like that at
last something was to be done by the
the Pearl and making of it a developer
for the large section of country tribu-
tary to it north of jackson. An annual
appropriation of a small amount has
been made for years to keep snags out of
the river, and this has hardly been ex-
pended, but nothing of a substantial ma
ture has been done in a long while. The
announcement of this work will be the
source of much pleasure to the citizens
of Neshoba, Leake, Rankin, Kinds and
other counties to be benefited by the
work. 1t should be worth many dollars
to them.
Greenwood is waging a relentless war
upon lawlessness of all kinds in general
and the illicit sale of liquor in particular.
A league of citizens has been organized for
the purpose of making a concerted fight
upon ~evil-doers. A fund has been raised
to carry on the good work, and some
thing of a beneficial nature will be ac-
complished.
Have you lone your duty as a citizen
this week? If you have, then you have
written some friend Or acquaintance in
another State of the splendid possibili-
ties and great inducements to good peo-
pie to come and be with us. There is al
ways IN opportunity to say a good word
for your State if you are looking for it.
Then if you are not always alert to it's
interest, turn over a new leaf and begin
right now.
The Masonic fraternity of Greenwood
are preparing to build a handsome tenn
pie for their use and business purposes.
1t will be one of the best buildings in
that progressive community by the va.
zoo.
Poplarville is sinking an artesian well,
and when a sufficient supply of water
has been secured the little city will in