Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-04

no war to make on any man IOI
voting for his man, but we were
going to carry our county fOI
Vardaman in 1911.
Now our Appropriation Com
mittee is trying very hard not to
appropriate more than our in
come, for if we do we will either
have to raise the levy or issue
bonds, and with the boil weevil in
our state I am opposed to either,
so we have had to cut very nearly
all bills that have come before us.
We have three experiment sta
tions in the state and we apprO-
pirate about $4,000 for the
three, and although it is provided
that all surplus sold off shall be
turned into the State Treasury,
this far we have not had dollar
turned in.
So I have voted against the es-
tablishment of any more of these
stations, but we have passed bills
establishing three others, but l
predict that we do not apprOpri-
ate any money for their support.
My good friend, Hon. Walter
Price, has introduced bill estab-
fishing a station in the prairie re-
gion and he thinks that if this
passes we can get it in NOxubee
county. But as much as | dislike
to go against any measure my
good friend wishes to pass, and
much as I would like to have this
station for our county, I am go
ing to vote against it. For this
reason in addition to the state not
having money to establish any
other stations. / don't think our
county ought to ask the state to
give US the ten or fifteen thousand
dollars needed for this purpose,
as we have only paid in $43, 7O1. SO
more than we have COTTON back
from the State Treasury since
1888, twenty two years, and
while I have no censure for my
colleagues for differing with me, I
can't. and will not vote for it.
Under the present appropriation
of 81, 425, 900. 90 school fund and
$3.50, 900 pension fund and $500
per county, for the Agricultural
School we will get back more than
we pay in, and we are no pau
pers. NOxubee is a good rich
county, and we can afford to es-
tablish our own Experiment Sta
tion, and we have a bill providing
this and now let us appropriate
money to sustain the Agriculture
al High School west of the river
and the Experiment Station east
of the river.
I regret to decline the request
of many good friends who have
written me in behalf of this meas
ure, but believe when they read
this letter they will say | am
right.
am also going to vote for a
Constitutional Convention, so
that the school fund can be equit-
ably distributed. Some counties
are getting more than they can
use, while others have to levy two
to four mill tax to carry on their
schools four months. And then
we want an elective judiciary, so
we will not have so much power
in the Governors hand, and other
things that can be remedied, such
as abolishing the county treasur-
zer's office, thereby saving the
State some 100000, and we will
never get these things without a
constitutional Convention,
It makes me ashamed to visit our
State Institution of all kinds and
see our children and our unfor-
tunate getting the benefit of them
and know that other counties are
paying the cost and our great
county has paid so little and will
for the next two years, at least,
pay nothing.
Now Mr.. Editor my worst ene-
my (if / have one) will not call
this a vote catching letter. but ]
am going to stand by it though
the heavens fall. Good bye.
BIG BUD.
The above letter speaks for itself and
needs no explanation at our hands. We
will, though, tell the story of an Irish
man who lived near college for boys,
and who was an eloquent "cusser. y
The boy would do things to annoy just
to hear him grow eloquent in that res
pect, so one Gay while the old man was
going to market with a wagon :load of
Piles and had reached the top of a long
hill. some of the boys came up behind
and pulled out the end of his wagon.
The old man looked back and saw all
of his apples rolling away, he gave up
in desnair and simnlu remarked tHTainf