The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-02-02
GOVERNOR AT BANQUET.
"M|SSISSPPrS NEEDS" FORCIBLY SET FORTH.
Law enforcement. the PiStOI-Toter, Good Roads and
the "Rat Holes in Criminal Law are Discussed

On the night of January rs the Board
OF Trade of the city of Jackson gave a
banquet at the Edwards House in honor
OF Gov. Brewer and the members of
the legislature.
1t was great gathering and one that
will mean the doing of much and
lasting good to the state. Judge Rob-
ert Powell was toastmaster. The
speeches made were all along patriotic
lines. Gov. Brewer was last, and the |
principal speaker. His subject was
1.-The Needs of Mississippi The Sem
tinel gives below some extracts from
his speech. AS usu with the Cover
nor, he went to the meat of his subject
at once and stated his views with re-
mark able force and clearness. He said:
mo state or community can be hap
py and prosperous unless there is, first
of all, peace and harmony within it's
borders, with contented and happy
people to work together toward the
common end of the common good and
general upbuilding."
In responding to the 'Needs of Missis-
sippi," he proposed to talk plainly and
announced that the first OF those needs
was for Mississippi to guard with jeal-
Gus care her credit and her good name,
and every man who Is interested in the
welfare of the state looks we'll to those
two points first of all; frown upon all
that which would tend to bring the
state into disrepute, and be alive and
keen to ward off and put from US any
thing which would reflect upon her
good name.
Secondly, Missis ppi needs to call
the attention of the world to what we
have---the rest of the world Goes not
begin to knew. If the farmer who tills
the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, or
the farmer who wrests a grudging liv-
ing from the bleak regions of the Can
adian line really knew what opportuni-
ties Mississippi offers to ALL they
would remain in their present environ
ment no longer than it would take
them to get the transportation to come
here. As illustrating the fact that
Mississippi is little known, and her re-
sources and chief products are not ap-
preciated or known of even among the
keenest and most we'll informed busi-
ness men, he cited some experiences he
had last summer in Boston, where
, there was surprising ignorance among
some of the keenest and generally best
informed business men as to the status
of Mississippi as a cotton producing
state, or the fact that outside of the
"sea island cotton" it raises the finest
long staple and the highest price cot
ton in the world, and that no region or
this terrestrial globe produces cottor
equal to the blenders" of the Yazoo-
Missippi delta.
"We must let the outside world know
what is in Mississippi--what we have
here, our opportunities and our great
possibilities. We must do it. We
must do it systematically and careful
ly and continuously, and when this i:
done the immigrants of the right elias:
, will flock in, to join us and be of US, tt
u make the waste places blossom and tt
: Join with US in making the state greatel
= and more prosperous.
y "We can only do this by united citi
zenry, each animated by love of thu
common good; and you representative
from the hills of the east, you from
: the delta, you from central and soutl
Mississippi--you represent every inch o
l. Mississippi in the legislatures as we'll a:
YOU do the county or district whlcl
sends you. You are representative
a delegate for the whole people of th'
= whole state, and must remember that
- Let us net have factionalism and sec
tionaljsm in the state, or the petit.
souabbling over such matter as tn
" distribution of the school fund. sucl
for instance, that one county has fewe
children to derive benefit from it, AM
some other county has the advantage
"If God has Dressed one section NOR
greatly than another, let that sectio
u be generous, and liberal with the boun
teous blessings the Creator has show
,ered upon it, with the sector which
not so greatly favored, as trustees TO
the W ,alth which He has bestowed
t. Let's have done with sectionalism i
Mississippi--th there IS no place for it; lie
s. us all get together for all of Missis
sippi, and sit down and figure out JUS
what is exactly right--and then do it.
Id "Let US say, for one thing, that it
wrong to deny to that great and grow
ing section of the state. south Missls
a. sippi, her full representation; let's CIV