The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-09-11
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get dioif3 ttttu pidItk what tflSN please
they will go in for diversification on
a more extended scale than has been
the case since the war between the
states-Natciez Democrat
Any method OF strategy is juStifi-
able in capturing a blind tiger There
IS no moral or legal obligation rest
ing upon aybody 10 protect them.
Let no good citizen bubble about
how they are captured. Grenada
Sentinel
If you want 10 give your little boy
from six 70 ten years old a start for
the penitentiary. just allow him the
range OF the streets 1t is there tina;
he takes his FIRST lesson in crime and
vulgar obscene language. and the
start Tor prison is made-Meadville
Advocate.
The Water Valley Progress thus
describes a sometimes familiar situa-
ton: "One editor was Dragging about
having bcets that weighed thirty
pounds and placed them on cHhib;~
ton. Another sage OF the quill
claimed TO have in his town beats
that weighed I8o pounds and that
they exhibited themselves on the
streets every day
Another trusty has taken French
leave and shook the dust of his feet
from the Rankin farm. This trusty
business should be abolished, for it
j. outrageous1y abused. The state
Is able to hire guards and should do
so Convicts should not be appoint
ed to positions of trust Keep them
in the walls or under the guns, as
the law contemplates. = Clarion
| Ledger.
The Hattiesburg City Council has
under consideration an ordinance to
protect females travelling alone from
annoyance and insult by the throng
OF loafers who hang about the depots
OF that city. The object Is excellent,
and no doubt there are other cities
besides Hattiesburg which are SINH
larly afflicted. 1t is a common evil
/ land one which is too seldom taken
into account by municipal govern
Misunderstanding American.
1t IS rumorcd over the state that
Judge ]. r. Byrd. of the eighth judi
cial district. is slated for retirement.
/ A few weeks ago Judge Byrd. from
the bench. attacked the integrity and
accuracy Of newspaper men III gen
eral. The brethren of the state press
have literally skinned him alive foc
this. and many will find a consider
able degree OF satisfaction in the
forecasts that he is not likely to sue
ger
Mississippi can raise its own bread
The census of 1900 gave the wheat
crop Of Wilkinson equity as 2o,743
bushels. Carroll county 1922, War
rem 34oo5, Yallobusha 3I.434. AMI
IYazoo 3o.zo3 bushels. 1t was never
intended that our people should nc
dependent on the West for our bread
and meat. the two crops that can bl
raised here in great abundance, ana
with much less labor than raising {
money crop with which to buy thew
from the West.-Ccntcrville Jcffer
sonian.
The few that are indulging in tall
about Col H. NJ Street as a portable
i candidate for governor are evidently
fond of making bubbles. In ouI
Judgment no man who has the in
tellieence to make the race for gov
ernor of Mississippi would want east
er prev than to have Col Street fol
an opponent. The people have no
forgotten his boiling the Democratic
ticket and taking a place on an cleo
toral ticket in opposition 70 Demo
cracv in 1906 Then too, he is very
much under corporate influences a:
the organization OF the committee:
of the present legislation ampl,
prove. Trot him out. = Grenad,
Sentinel
4 bill exempting from all taxation
moneys loaned at per cent and I'm
der. and the repeal ofs the tax OF
mortgages will build the straightes
road to prosperity for Mississippi
that could be devised, but before thi
bill can pass and before the tax o,
mortgages can be repealed. ii vii
be necessary TO place the advantage
of such legislation before the peopl'
in al sections OF the state SO tina
there will be united demand TO
favorable action by the legislature
Natchez Democrat.
Pellagra. hitherto known as a di
sease among the poorer classes D
Ita1y. and traced to the cause o
mouldy corn meal. of which the,
are large consumers. is making it
appearance in this and other states
AZ \ oreyeptatiy the Woodville Re