Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-11-05
MISSISSIPPI ROUTE
THE SHORTEST
Only One Route For the Jackson Mil
tGry Htehwdy.

OHty OHe NOuts TUT WS SoShSoH HuH
i tGy Highway.
Mr.. D. J. Morrison, president
of the Mississippi Highway AS.
sociation, has issued the follow
ing:
The odds are against the State
of Mississippi to secure the Jack
son Military road from Nashville
to New Orleans. although Miss,
issippi has everv logical advant-
age over the Alabama route via
Birmingham.
The Mississippi route is 25C
miles shorter; grades and levels
are most economically provided
by nature; the agricultural ad-
vantages are unsurpassed; a
thickly settled, intelligent white
population crowds along the right
of way; the finest road materials,
having been approved by the
Federal Government, lie in great
beds almost continuously through
out the route, and the only mill
tary road built by Gen. Jackson
enters the State at or near Co.
lumbus and terminates at Madi-
sonville, La, the climax of our
natural advantages, yet with all
these natural advantages back
ing up Mississippi's claim to the
route there is great danger of its
loss to Mississippi, for the reason
that Mississippi is lacking and
deficient in organization, as she
has no highway department to
direct this important fight, while
our neighbor, Alabama, has a
we'll organized State Highway
Department with ample State
aid, which is waging the strong
est fight Mississippi has ever
known to wrest from her that
which justly belongs to her of
great intrinsic value as well as
distinction and honor. If Miss
issippi loses in this fight the loss
will be the greatest in her his
tory, and will be, if we lose.
solely on account of the lack of a
Highway Department upon which
an Organization to control these
Advantages depends.
| for lack Of organization of her
commercial advantages when the
boundaries of our State were run
we lost Memphis, Mobile and
New Orleans, for northern and
eastern boundary lines of our
State, meeting at right angles in
the Northeast corner, if run
straight West and South throw
within the boundary of our State
Memphis and Mobile. The Miss.
issippi River for more than $500
miles from the East and West
forms boundaries for eight states
except Mississippi, although the
river diverges sharply to the east
near it's mouth, a portion of Miss
issippi was cut out by the lines
of Louisiana upon which New
Orleans is located and thus on ac-
count of lack of organization to
guard and protect her CONNER
cial interests Mississippi stands
today the Niobe of all her sister
states, bereft of these, her right
full three great cities and she now
is imminent danger of another
great loss.
ONLY ONE JACKSON ROUTE.
The Alabama contestants have
adroitly and shrewdly confused
the public mind that these Path
finders" have two good and valid
routes to choose from. There
never was a greater imposition
attempted to be put upon the
public than this two route pro-
position. There was never out
one road built by Gen. Jackson,
and that was through Mississip-
pi. The world knows this; the
Washington's authorities knows
this; Congress knows this and
Congress will never appropriate
a dollar for a Jackson Highway
unless it conforms substantially
to that built by Gen. Jackson.
Because others than Mississip-
plans may have first started this
J Jacks on Highway movement
gives them no title to change
what Congress did a hundred
years ago, nor take that which
gold cannot buy, the glory and
honor Gen. Jackson bequeathed
to Mississippi.
FRUIT TREES.