Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-02-16
Letter From Bis Bud.
Jackson. Miss. Feb. e. ls0"

Jackson, Miss, Feb. e. ls0"
'" u st.ended the Farmers nion haI4
,.r' a, t5ts week and was real sorE not
lomsst more Of my farmer trigod. iron!
! Nexubae. as i am sure they would nave
| bsen interested and benefited by 'n'
speeches made. -
We Ind the Hon. Tom Watson from
Georgia to address the body, and l
KNEW Il would have benefited every
farmer in the State to have heard him,
He was very strong in his advocacy 81 81
a Union of the fafmcrs especially u
the south and west.
He showed that an tie great GGrpo ",
yatlops. banks and roadfoads, had been
relieved OF their share Of Federal taxa
HoE and all placed upon the laboring
! Glasses and this can only be remedied
by organization,
Prof. Whitfield, our worthy superln-
tendept of education, also delivered a
most magnificent address. He indicted
the people Of Mississippi for not beng
abreast of the times and said we had
fallan behind the procession, and sold
our immense timber lands for a mere
song. and said if we didnot educate The
children along industrial lines especial.
w. that they would be- "Eewels Of
wood and DRIVERS of water, for the
alien land holders. Saddle was in Mis-
sssippi a few days ago; saw magnlil-
cent saw mill in full operation and no.
ticed a gentleman driving an OK team
along the road and was told that only a
short time before, that man was the
owner Of that splendid body Of land and
had sold it for three dollars an acre
and was then working for the company
at two dollars per day,
Said that Mississippi did not have a
man within her borders who was able
to draw the plan for the magnificent
capitol but we had to go to st, Louis
for an architect and when the contract
was let for the building, not single
Mississippi contractor bid on it and the
contract was let to a Chicago firm, and
the men who did the magnificent NE
rior work, getting from ten to twenty
five dollars d day, were different ma
tionality altogether, and said: "Were
there no Mississippians there?' Yes.
there were lot of item. Some had
been raised with him, and Of the best
families in the State, We're rolling
wheelbarrows and doing the unkillec
work at $l.lO per day.
He said he would be in NoXubee soor
and deliver this address and try to in.
terest our people along these lines.
1t seems to me that land in our com
ty has advanced less in value than any
other portion of the State and that We
are right behind even the people in on
State, who Whitfield said were away
behind the balance of the Union.
He appealed to the people to lay
aside prejudice and try to get abreast
| of the times and get our full benefit o.
the improvements. Said great many
of our people took pleasure in abusing
the yankees and that he heard a speak
er not long ago addressing an audience
of Mississippians doing this and was
loudly applauded when every garment
hat and shoes of the speaker and tht
audience, the saddles they rode and ttt
surries they rode in, were all made by
the yankees, and that the yankees die
not mind our abusing them so long as we
bought every thing we used from them
and the way to hurt the yankees was tt
90 to making these articles ourselves.
If you come out to hear him, know
you will be impressed with his earnest
ness, and | hope greatly benefited
The county needs just such talks a
Whitfield makes for it seems to me VIZ
are not living up to our opportunities,
The first session Of the present legis
lature empowered the Board of Super
visors to appropriate as much as $500
to repair and beautify the variou
school houses in the county. thin
that we only appropriated for this pun
pose about $600.00 Some countiei az
propriated as much as 100000. Tn
last term Of this Legislature, we had
| bill passed allowing the establishment
Of at least ten school iabraries and at
thorizod the board to contribute $l0.C
as soon as the patrons raised $10C(
This to be nucleus to have a librar
for the cb.Idren.
Whitfield tells me that good man
counties have already gottsn then
established, but don't think oar pee
pie have awaited themselves # this et
Not loug ago, was in coach wa
ing for train at Ar.es.a | aoverhoa
two young men colycr5ing nedr M an
it turned out that were both g,adu t.
of the a. & N, College One V;
teaching school and telling is exp
ricnc2. He told that lie believed thrt