The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-01-18

perform in the ordinary factory.
Industrial School.
While discussing the question of pre-
tecting the child from physical deterior-
alton, and the mental and spiritual par
alysis incident to excessive b at the
loom and in the workshop, it is not out
of place to call the attention of the leg
~islature to the necessity OF establishing
an industrial school or reformatory for
the education, direction and development
of boys and girls whose parental incum.
brances. hereditary delinquencies and
unhappy environment have caused them
to stray from the paths OF rectitude
and virtue, or possibly have prevented
the child from entering the path of rec
titude and virtue at all.
Department of Education.
The department of education has be-
come one of the most important, If not
the most important, department OF the
state government. There are many
recommendations made in Superintend-
ent Powers report to the Legislature
which deserves serious consideration.
No class of our people contribute more
to the we'll being of society thar the
men and women who have consecrated
their lives to the education and develop
ment of the minds and bodies of the
bows and girls, upon whose shoulders IN
q few years all the responsibilities OF
home and government will rest. School
teaching has become q profession. Ihe
relation of the teacher to the child Is
almost as sacred as that of parent, and
YOU cannot expect a teacher to discover
and bring out in the child the better
narts of IT'S nature unless the teacher
Shall be trained, any more than you can
expect q doctor, or a lawyer or a
preacher to succeed in their professions
without preparation.
Abolish the Saloon.
IF T were called upon to name the n
thing that has wrought the most harm
in the world, caused more poverty,
heartaches, blighted lives, frustrated
ambitions. thar all other agencies for
evil combined, I should say the intern
perate use of Intoxicating liquors.
Whisky taken immoderately is hurttul
to man physically, spiritually, mentally
and financially. 1t is an evil, without
a mitigating incident. 1t is the deadly
drug into which the jewels of the hearts
best love are dissolved and pourel into
the mouths of men to madden the BRAIN
and DESTROY the soul. 1t is verify the
Circean vortex from whose voluptuous
whirl. comes human swine to scatter
the seeds of sin and death, from which
will surely spring the tares OF sunless
sorrow. l trust that you may see mt
to enact laws at once which will forever
wipe this stigma from the state OF Mis-
sissippi.
Public Service Corporations.
The right of the state of Mississippi
to regulate public service corporations
in intra srate matters is settled beyond
dispute, and the duty of the state to
reorlate them does not admit of ques-
tioy. The public must be protected
against the greed and cupidity of these
corporations, and the public convenience
demands that there be some remedy for
their Indifference. There is no question
before the American people today which
touches more vitality the material IN
terests of the masses than the matter
of passenger and freight rates on the
railroads.
The Judiciary.
Ordinarily, a poorly paid public Off
cial as an economic agency is a failure.
The state should not ask its citizens TO
render efficient and intelligent service
without giving to that citizen a far
compensation for such service. The cost
of living has increased, and all the eX-
nenses of maintaining a home have
nearly COUPLED in the last decade. The
circuit and chancery Judges receive to-
H., that xrno nnI6 fhnm
bv the state twenty years ago-twenty-
seven hundred and fifty dollars per year.
This SALARY is too small to tempt a law
yer who is capable of performing the
functions of that great office, even if
there were no travelling expenses and
hotel hills to pay, but with these not
inconsiderable expenses added, it makes
the compensation for efficient service
exceedingly small.
Elective Judiciary.
While I think there is no cause of
complaint or Just grounds for criticism
of the men who nave served the state
as Judges under the apopintive system,
nor do / believe the character of the
irrlces will De improved by a change in
the method of selecting them, still l be-
neNe tI6 IlSIuOu VI olCStihS " NN
people more nearly accords with the
Democratic idea of government, and out
of respect and Difference to a demand
throughout the state for a change in
the system.
State Repositories.
Experience in other states has demon
strated the wisdom of state repositories.
I believe that VI prudent, wise system of
state repositories will facilitate the
collection of taxes, simplify the dis
bursement of public funds, prevent the
congestion of money in the state treas
ury. Keep the money in circulation
performing the beneficent function for
which money was created-and at the
same time add to the states revenue.
This recommendation is made, of course,
with the idea in view that the legisla-
ture shall provide by law for such safe
guards as will render impossible the loss
of tle states funds by peculation, bad
investments, or misfortune or the part
of the borrower; and to also provide
against the possibility of such deposit
tories becoming a %corrupting influence in
state politics.
Soldiers Home.
Your attention is directed to the re-