The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-06-13
Mr.. LEWIS MADE
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farmer, the laborer and the corpora
tons, as well, 1t this not rather rec
ommendation than fault. s s.
s No man In the state ID more serious
in his desire for the proper and legit-
innate regulations Of the corporations,
but | am not going over the district
cursing the corporations for the pur-
pose Of making political capital. The
representative in Congress from this
district should be the representative
Of all the people and all the interests
Of the district. He should represent
the farmer, the lumberman, the mer'
chant, the ship owner. the corpora
tions and the Individual You don t
need a demagogue trying to arraign
one class Of the people against the
other or one section Of the district
against the other. You need a man
to represent the whole people and the
entire district. You don't need loud
talker, or a political lawyer. You
need a man who by knowledge and by
training and by inclination will ac-
complish things for the upbuilding OF
South Mississippi.
According to my observation the
paramount interest in this district is
agriculture The timber is being rap
idly exhausted and it will be only
question of a few years before we will
have to depend almost entirely on our
agricultural resources. Next IN I'M
portance is the development Of our
harbors and rivers, for the prosperity
of this section is largely regulated by
cheap freight rates and the closer we
can bring the big ships to our doors
the greater our traffic with the out
side world, the greater our prosperity
and the lower our freight rates. Now
the question arises, Who can best rep
resent you, the man who has devoted
his life work to the law, and knows
nothing of our business or business
needs, or the man whose life training
has been along the i.s 0' VI
mount business interests. ~i~~r-
They will tell you that "FraSk isn't
farmer to buft,'' But Frank is al
ready hurting somebody and before
the campaign IL over. I will have sew
eral congressional aspirants scratch
ing straw. l nave been farmer for
eighteen years. l have studied the
soils and the best agricultural meth
DDS for South Mississippi, and year
after year l have gone to the state
fairs with my exhibits and have dis
played them there to advertise the
resources of South Mississippi. and
for the purpose of boosting this Sec
ton, and have come away time after
time with the first prizes; even over
the best farmers of the rich delta
lands.
In 1896 the port of Pascagoula had
s IL feet of water, and the Pasca-
goula Commercial Club was organized,
principally for securing appropriations
and a deep water port. | was chosen
head of the organization, and without
detracting from the great work done
by Congressman Bowers, who intro
duced the bills and was in charge of
the work before Congress, l feel that
my work and the results obtained
give assurance of results for the dis
trict in the future. I was called be-
fore the congressional committees,
having in charge the appropriations
for rivers and harbors, at each ses-
sion Of Congress and l presented the
statistics, the facts and the figures
regarding the resources and needs OF
the Gulf coast. From the inception
of the work until the present we have
secured a total of more than one mil
lion dollars for harbor improvements.
I feel that this training will be of ben
eft should you choose me as your rep
resentative.
In connection with the improve
ments of our harbors is the improve
ment of our rivers. live at the mouth
of Leaf river You live near its head
waters. We are both interested in
making it waterway for freight traf-
fic, for whether pound of freight is
ever shipped over it or not; it can be
made the means of securing cheaper
freight rates from the coast to Hat
tiesburg and from Hattiesburg to the
coast. This is a work in which ! have
taken part and in co-opera-
ton with your Comemrcial Club have
helped to secure the appropriation for
the first survey. When the govern
ment engineers assembled at Mobile
and your committee went before them
asking this survey, was called on to
present statistics regarding the re-