Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-07-10

- that ii has stood, under its present man
%Z%&GG1I agement ever the fearless champion
RzNH1E3NF Of the producers Of wealth in Missis-
MIHoNSR K sippi That when any controversy
SS9I7l71 arises between the farmers and those
whose acts in any way conflict with the farmers interests,
this paper has been found standing boldly and unre-
servedy on the side Of the farmer and demanding that
his rights be not endangered
This is bu rormal attitude Of any publication con-
Quoted in the general interest Of the public good The
farmer is the foundation the very basis Of prosperity in
state and nation From his o the foundation laid for the
creation Of every dollars worth Of wealth the country
boasts.
This paper has encouraged every organization attempted
by the farmers to better safeguard them against class
corporate abuses i has apology to offer anyone for
its position.
Up to the present time the Great South. which all
hope to see advance materially morally and every other
way is almost wholly dependent upon the prosperity Of
the agricultural classes for this hoped for advancement
And, hearken moment The man who inagines that
the farmers Of Mississippi not fully informed this year
as 10 the qualifications the sincerity Of purpose the
bies Of the men asking for their suffrage for high ohce
in the state is still gropng in the shadow Of the dark
This is day Of intellectual expansion Of fast mails ol
rural free delivery routes Of universal acquisition Of public
knowledge among that class Of honest producers Of wealth
ii the county ths class VINO have long since become
weary Of seeing the fruits Of their toll gathered by
scheming spectators.
The farmers Of no other state in the Union more
thoroughly organized better posted more alert to their
own interests today than are the farmers Of Mississippi
They have been deceived so often had their confidence
played with so repeatedly been betrayed much that to
use homely term, they are getting wise, very wise.
The politician in Mississippi this year finds his farmer
friend hard study. His emotions awakened, o
yore BY the hreadbare tales Of his imminent danger unless
he marches the polls and votes for the smooth tongued
aspran who comes to paint him word pictures Of striped
legged mules and rope harnesses. The "diarrhoea ol
words and constipation Of ideas WHICH were So
potent do not carry the od hayseed Of his feet this
Gterng generalies as vote aeers. have passed over
the divide and even lingering gAam Of their recedna
grandeur can no longer be dscerned the western hor
zon
Ever notice how long It takes the politician discover
that the men he would deceive are only smiling up then
sleeve at him How even after everything indicates thai
the people are doing some thinking and some figuring fol
themselves the political aspirant still plays them for the
old time easy mark and resorts to the same tactics the
same stale tricks that have been played over and over
often that school boy could no longer be led asay By
them?
Well, this is fact; the politician is ever follower
never leader; as public sentiment crystaizes he climbs
aboard but never aids in crystazing that sentiment Sin
certy is not Of his strong suits When the Office bee
once gets busy under his bonnet his sole ambition is Il
formulate plan which will enable him To appeal to The
masses for an ndorsemenor the oRce he would secure
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