The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1911-01-13

ana docs not seek an Outlet WHcre Op'
preston and practical cOnflscation
exist or may become likely. Missls-
slppians should awake from that
trance into which they have fallen In
the belief that timber and lumber |
comprise the full and only resource |
OF the state that awaits development.
The immense tracts OF timber lands
have long since been gobbled up by
the foreign capitalist, and these capt
talists may easily and well afford to
let them remain idle and undeveloped,
{ as they are today,
The principal agricultural need OF
the state Is a settlement and develop.
ment OF the cutover lands. The ex-
penditure OF millions OF dollars In &C.
quirinp these cut.over lands Is not
necessary In the least. No colonizers
seek TO place millions OF dollars 10
lands to be sold of IN small tracts.
This buying and selling OF lands Is
being carried on on large scale In
= htNNIht NtNtiDhS vi WIG Nbhbt uu Ultb-
. ent, hence there IL an actual demon.
! stration that Section 900 IL neither a
help nor detriment In that class OF
s development What the state needs
:. Is development OF every kind and
+ character. Manufacturing concerns
d that employ hundreds and thousand.
o OF wage carriers are what build great
J. cities and great states. Without
/ these great and llourishing seaport.
n are not found TO exist, and Missis
n slppi has not great seaport. Neithe
d has she a city with $4,000 population
@ practically the only state In the grea
e. aud glorious union that occupies sucl
h unique and undesirable rating.
+. Alabama, Tennessee aud Louisiau
u are eacl, and all enjoying additions
y prosperity, wealth and increasingly
p large cities because OF the short
" sighted policy Of this one state. Tim
r. after time needed capital, brains an
ne industry have been driven outside TIL
he state because of the existence OF nor
@, sensical laws that sound well an
ty good and react upon the people Ia til
he nature OF a barbed boomerang. Ii
q. surance rates are excessively high
ut Rents are out OF reason, lmprov,
ment Is at standstill, Deveol
ment, progress and industry have a
ut become practically lost arts. None
pi. rates are shameful State bonds 4
%. begging. Outside capital knocks 4
'es the gate OF the state seeking an Ell
dy trance, but the shackled and maj
ed acled people OF Mississippi are con
re. PEELED to stand helpless TO asst.
ns, themselves. Ten per cent is not a
IT. attraction to idle money TO con
nd into the state, The same money Is
ct drag on the other markets at Ave p,
. cent, yet the people Of this state mu'
!, pay this enormous toll
} PLEDGE THE CANDIDATES.
This good year of 1911 sees eener
state election. Every Office With
the gift OF the people OF the sta
n must be filled. The solution OF Il
u evils that confront the people lies
e the composition OF the next legisl
It ture IL Is up TO the voter to s,
= whether the present intolerable CO
l ditiohs shall continue or wheth
L they shall rise up In their might az
Y indignation and wipe Off the blotch
n and take stand amcug the peoples
other states in extending a WELDON
hand to a waiting, anxious and desl
c. able outside capital,
[. THE DEMocRAT-STAR pleads az
rs pleads earnestly and sincerely for q
c. voters to remove this stigma from u
,r escutcheon OF the state, and viii
they are at the good work to cut o,
a. the other cancerous growths on u
a body polite. When Mr.. Caudida
&c announces for the legislature conn
him to stand ilatfooted and sure I
Q. the repeal OF Section o0S In its c
At tirety. II he straddles the issu
(. knife him and knife him hard al
often. No man who is unwilling
:. face an issue Is competent and wort
N 60 receive the suffrage OF his fello
|, men. II he lives 10 the ages OF 3
past and fails TO note the signs a,
necessities OF modern progress, sill
the knife good aud deep Into