The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-03-13
HE THINKS LAW ENFORCEMENT
WILL BRING ABOUT DEsIR-
ED RESULTS.
THINGS THAT RETARD PROGRESS
Endorses the Work Of the Southern
Commercial Congress-Some
Mistaken ideas.

Jackson, Miss, March 13.-Gover-
nor Noel believes the Southern Com
mercial Congress has a great work to
perform, and believes he has started
out along the right lines to accom-
plish it's purpose. While the COVER
nor thinks the South has overlooked
many opportunities to bring about ma
terial development, he thinks the
paign.
Governor Noel believes law enforce
ment will do much toward bringing
about the desired results. The North
has always had an exaggerated idea
of confidence in the South, so far as
health and lawlessness are concerned,
and he thinks the time Is come when
desirable settlers can be secured be-
cause of better health conditions and
more stringent enforcement of the
law.
| Yellow fever and the negro have
been the bugaboos that have retard-
ed the South, and especially Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, but he believes
if the country were better informed
on health conditions and thoroughly
understood the relations between the
whites and negroes of the South, it
would be less difficult to induce a de-
sirable class of settlers to come to
this state. Louisiana has already
. disabused the public mind as to con-
. ditions there, and Governor Noel
thinks it is time for Mississippi to do
the same.
Residents of Northern states, he
says, have an exaggerated idea about
the negro in this state. They be-
lieve, he says, it is unfit for white
woman to be left alone in her home
here, if there is negro on the
| place, and thinks it is the duty OF
every Mississippian to tell the truth
| regarding conditions here The ne
gro of the South, he thinks, is more
loyal to the white man than the ne
gro of the North. because the negro
understands the Southern man and
, the people of the South better under
stand the negro.
A false representation. he says. pre-
walls as to the negro, especially il
? Mississippi The condition exists, no
5 only in the North. but in some of the
Y Southern states. but he does not re
+ gard the negro as wholly responsible
for it. He says the Commercial Con
4 dissiminate information relative to con
/. ditions in every Southern state, anC
s. he does not think any state has more
+ TO gain by educating the general pub
n lie as to what the situation is here
|. both from a law enforcement point o
e view and health conditions, than Mis-
d sissippi.
Mississippi has long been regarde
S as one of the richest of the states
but its development has been retarde
Y by the false impression that has bee
@ created regarding conditions here. H
n believes Mississippi is just as health
IT as any other state in the union, viii
" the present work of the State Boai
e of Health is improving conditions
n marked extent and will give pro
pective settlers more confidence in Il
.g integrity of the state.
y. The fact that the prison populati,
I'D of the state has increased nearly 6
in three years show the law is |
ing enforced here, but it will ia
more than this to counteract the fal
impressions sent out to all parts
the world relative to law and order
ed this state.
de Mississippi, so far as other sta
a are concerned, is regarded as one
s, the best governed commonwealth
le- the union. The negro is not mem
to life and property. here. Cover
Noel says, any more than he
ui- other states, and not as much az
9 has been in some of the NORTH
US states. But the declaration that
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