The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-10-02
TOWN AND

a few farmers are SO preJudiced against the towns ana citles
town and city people generally, and we have some people who are
dice for the sole purpose of hood ~inking" them into the opinion
r rea. 'mes : o ar ma" St farmers SDss ses along a So b bsy p'f WHAT do % these he's pr people
think now about the aid the city people and town people re lending
who are encouraging them in this opinion will tell them that it is a
scheme to get their CO. eot e T., when if they will r sSo"sI "a little t ne,
and buy this distressed cotton at :, and possibly 5cents-W'nston
And yet the esteemed Winston County Journal recently lent its
support t. a candidate for office who sought to cultivate a spirit of an
tagonism between the country and the towns. This aforesaid candi-
date said it is to you boys in the country" that must look, Il have
no pull on the towns But what the Journal states is no less true
and it has no doubt already realized the perncous influence of the
propaganda it helped to foster. Commenting on what the Winston
County Journal says, the Yazoo City News observes:
But for the demagogues and place hunters, who thrive off of
stirring up strife and prejudice between the country and town no
the country, and in turn the farmers are just as dependent upon the
towns. But for the towns and cities there would be no market for
the products of the farms, and if there were no farm products grass
would soon grow upon the streets of the towns and cities
that in the towns and cities the farmers have thousands of their
calls for practical assistance: In times such as the business worid is
now experiencing, the hot air tanners and prejudice producers close
lows only prosper when the farmers and business men are both en-
joyng fair returns for their labor and products;
But for the prejudice breeders, peace and harmony would pre-
vail at all times between the country and towns. Would that the
fatten off of arraying one class against another. They should be
treated with scorn and regarded by every community IS dangerous
as would be a plague o. leprosy."
There is no tribute we would not pay to the country We love
its sunshine and its shadow, we love its meadows, its wooded dell.
its running brooks, its verdant fields, its tall oaks, its waving pines,
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good people, its hallowed churches and its precious memories, but
to say the people in the country are better, or more honest than
those in the towns would be a most serious indictment of our par
ents and Of our grandparents. for the reason that ninety per cent of
the people who now reside in the towns either came from the coun-
or are the sons and daughters of Those who were born and reared in
in the country.
The fact of living in town does not make anybody any wiser
or better any more than the fact of a home in the country makes
nobody any less wise DR. any more honest. 1t is the character of
the individual that counts anywhere under the shining sun of Heav-
en-. We came from the country. The dust of our father and our
mother and other very near and dear one lie sacred in the old
burying ground on the old farm, and Heaven knows that we would
their spirits which so often hover about US.
The country needs the towns and the towns need the county.
One cannot travel without the other. This being true, let's ask our
selves, who is paying a very large per cent today of the cost of
m maintaining missionaries in foreign lands, who is bearing a very
large part of the burdens of our eemosynary institutions, who is
contributing the most for the propagation of the gospel and who is
furnishing more o. the young men who enter the ministry today, to
all of to which there can be but one answer, "the towns" This is
true in Mississippi notwithstanding the fact that we often hear poll
ticians felicitate over the fact that "n Mississippi the country out
votes the towns"
We need to talk plainly about these matters, the brush needs to
be cleared away and the spirit of brotherly love and amty needs to
take the place of misunderstanding and prejudice. 1t is only thru
the spirit of doing unto others as we would have them do unto US
that we can hope to march to that destiny and attain that measure
of success and prosperity that we are justly entitled to as a people.
No, the towns have not a monopoly on chicanery and dishonesty,
neither has the country a monopoly on honesty and uprghtness.
Measured by the same standard, they are about on a parity and both
need to greatly improve. Each needs to help the other.