The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-04-07

where only few are to be found willing
to barter honor for place, or plethoric con-
dition of the pocketbook.
Old Mississippi is to be congratulated
on having SO great city as a center of So
cial and political corruption, but has the
rural conditions dominant in the homes
and in the great public life of the state,
with the simple life, and as simple hon
esty, in the lead, and hence the quiet rule
of the great moral element rendered CO.
hesive and effective in maintaining law,
in relation to statewide prohibition, as
well as law in general There no one law
is magnified to the minifying of another,
but all laws are executed by the officials
as equal statutes of a great state.
Educationally, Mississippi leads her
southern states. With her great schools
like the university at Oxford, the A. &
NJ. College at Starkville and the splendid
school for young women, the l. I. & c.,
at Columbus, and with her private colleges
as WE'LL her educational equipment is un-
surpassed by any state in the south or west,
especially when we consider that these
are but leaders of the splendid movement
educationally as represented by her systern
of district and high schools of the state.
Her provision for her colored population
is ample, and no negro in Mississippi need
grow up in ignorance so far as the educa-
tional provision of the state is concerned.
What a wonderful area of fertile soil
she has. The great delta, as rich as the
famous valley of the Nile, properly cult
waited and with varied crops, could sup
port through its products agreat nation.
Half cultivated, as it is, and confined
practically to single crop, what immense
values are produced, and these could be
at least doubled with very little more la
Dor judiciously applied in raising corn,
hogs and cattle, as we'll as potatoes and
rice
1Ao IL loJ Tic Vast dCItd pIOuuCcS mar
velously to enrich the north, and could
be made to produce even more marve-
lousy to enrich those who raise the val
ues AM make them independent of any
other section. Then comes her hill land,
adapted to cotton to a great extent, and
almost perfectly adapted to grain and
small fruits, chicken and hog raising
and able to furnish two such states with
meat and bread, and then have good crops
to move much northern money south.
Mississippi properly cultivated could
sustain the empire of Germany or Eng
land, and then live we'll at home, and
the time will come when she will be
one of the richest sections of this country
of vast possibilities now untouched.
Ten thousand acres in the delta could
produce more than all New England, and
yet New England practically rules the
legislative bodies who make our national
laws land is ever growing richer because
of the folly of the people of the south and
west who are just beginning to rub their
eyes to an intelligent waking up. If
was young man seeking an opening, l
kno w of no section more inviting to go to
than the south, and no part of the south
more inviting than old Mississippi, with
her broad acreage of fertile land, her
splendid people and her educational con-
ditions, and old as l am, if l had the
means | would go down, buy me an
humble home and live and die in Missis-
sippi.
Land of the blue sky, singing birds,
vast possibilities, fair women and brave
men, old Mississippi has written a goodly
history, and is destined to write historic
pages more impressively beautiful and
interesting in the not very distant future
if her great people are true to their OPP
portunities, their privilege and their re-
sponsibility.