The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-09-29
sH%IP-PURcHAsE BILL LESSONS AT QUIZ noon

cateo on SOUND common sense. 1t was a blow to the sh;nnin-
trust it is true. The shipping trust vas taking advant.pp
'he WORLDWIDE war which had caused SO many merchant cr
rying vessels to be driven off the sea, to raise their fre;ob+ 49,
whlch IN some instances amounted to 800 per cent
we have a concrete lesson as a result of the y a.
onp-purchase law right at our doors. The saw-mining plant
being operated in Grenada, which is shipping much of its ONT
put OF dogwood and persimmon to Liverpool and other Euro
pean points, has been given a reduction in Ocean fro;oh+ 49,
the Ship-purchase bill became a law of SIS cents q bunduoI
or an equivalent of $3.50 per carload, a right neat little snno ~
itself. Immediately upon the heels of the PASSAGE Of tho IT,.
Ocean freight dropped on the mills product IS cents per him.
dred and only a few days ago there was another reduction -
oo cents per hundred. Before the European war, the Ocean
freight rate from Grenada was so cents per hundred.
What is true of one commodity is also true of another ne
course freight rates vary on different commodities II +houo
fore appears that those behind the Ship-purchase bill knev,
what they were about and that they were acting in the interests
of the country at large. The cotton farmer should do a 1itt,a
figuring as to what the law is worth to him.
Our esteemed friend, Murphree, of the Calhoun County
Monitor, thinks we have perpetrated a joke on ourselves be.
cause OIL a business notice which appeared in The Sentinel last
week which stated our charges for obituaries and inmemoriams
and because the item also stated that it was the papers pleas
ue ito make notices of the death of anybody and would thank
our friends tt advise us when bereavements come" Now per-
haps it would have been better to have stated the matter a lit
tie differently, nevertheless Grenada county people try to make
such intercessions day by day that they can lie down 70 a neace-
full couch at night with a clean slate, therefore when our peo-
pie are called away, their friends feel that they know that they
have gone to a better and to a happier state. We can we'll
understand that our Calhoun friend should have some serious
mlsglvlngs about printing even obituaries of his people, but we
must confess our surprise that he is bold to say that "the fu-
lure, for some of us at least, after we leave this mundane
sphere, is uncertain, from which It's not improper to conclude
that Calhoun people believe that everything in the future is GER
tain with them except a passport to the better world. Perhaps
II Calhoun people did less uncertain things while living the
future would not be so disturbing.
fr the sake OF Democratic regularity and because the
party Will need the vote of Mcclellan in the United States Sem
ae, we want to see Ex-Gov. Hooper beaten in Tennessee, but
Hooper is telling some plain truths about Tennessee politics in
MS speeches. He brings a severe indictment against Mcclellan
wnen ne charges that that gentleman has always stood with
tnose In tennessee who have attempted to nullify in the big
cities the laws of the state and who have stood for gang rule.
Onquestlonably Tennessee has had some rotten, very rotten.
The Democrats up there have not stopped at swind-
ing the Republicans but they have swindled each other in their
and proof of this fact is not wanting in Democratic
and from other reliable sources.
mississippi should take warning from Tennessee. Our
1T seems are drifting far out into the muddy waters
OF a dangerous stream and far away from the legal lines adont.
ed when they were inaugurated.