The Hattiesburg news., 1916-12-06
An Editorial


This great Republic 1t is the home Of the freest peo-
pie under the 1t is the land where every worshps
God according the dictates Of his and where
may ruhIesy invade the home the property rights
of another Where the hunbest cottage is castle Where
every citizen uncrowned King with Imperial ballot
his hand Republic whose growth and progress in the
nails of all history, is without compare.
One hundred and forty years ago pulling infant
swaddng clothes Today it the peer of any Nation the
world few years gore, within the memory Of man.
divided people Of scattered states now it is an ndssoube
Nation the Monarch Of half the world I'm century has
grown from struggling colony of the mghtes
Of the earth The tiny flag of the early settlers proudly
waves and protects hundred million souls. Its long
stretches from frozen Maine sunny California and
bahes its puage either furnishes the Family
of Man every material need that Nature bestow mbedded
its bowels springng from the womb of its Mother Earth
every mineral vegetable that find Tor
the greatest productive body o land that time and chance
and travel has yet discovered Its crops the most dvers
fed and bountifu offers home the homeless Of less
favored peoples and sas in its service to man
kind.
To live and be citizen in such country is no mean
thing to be considered Ii is the thing oreathers fought
for 1t happy environment which beckons alike the brok-
en- and the ambitious to attain
The prosperity Of This country is beyond all c9r'9ptG-
ton Its mighty rush is almost frightening Its onward march
reads ike fiction The story Of the Arabian Nights pales
beside it, That vivid dream book Looking Backward was
poor forecast Of it. Beyond computation it is alike past
comprehension We talk millions who do not know what
millions We reve in riches which halt century ago
was beyond the ken Of man imagining We have the rich
domain the world We have the largest per caPa loy
circulation of any people earth We have garnered more
wealth in twelve short months than any stastcian COM
pute or any mind comprehend talk about it sounds ex
travagant To think about it stops the flight OF fancy paf
es comparson comprehension analysis 1t IS SUI genefs
There was never anything like it before.
Men, and not few Of them who were nearPaupers
year ago onaires today Corporations that were Grip
pied and ready fall beneath the weight OF debt have
colossal slowed away Business that angushng
is rushing on like the sweep Of mighty river The spndes
Of industry kept busy night and day. and yet the demand
Fo~a ble is unOrn mo
A year ago owed England untold millions OF dollars
wear ago this country debtor nation and the most
astute Captains Of Finance could out OF the imam
ca storm that brewing Foreign creditors were demand
ing their Just due Since then have wiped our slate clean
and loaned these people money than the average
knows how to compute II IS arVei q InarVeis - -
ancial history.
A few years ago automobiles were considered rich
man luxury Now they carts in Ireland
Neeroes in the Delta buying fast the dealers
can furnish them More autos owned BY Delta negroes
now than were owned by white people South Mississippi
FIVE years ago And why not with cotton selling at ~ cents
per pound and the negroes making the cottone What foos
some negroes are leave the cotton heds and norn 10
freeze Think what it the cotton growing states Tor
ten million bales of cotton to bring II cents pound with
heseed which few short burned to be rid Of
bringing like high prices. 1t is simply fabulous.
Prices are too high but things still SELL Where the
money comes from is thing no fellow can find out
Farmers round about here have hard luck story to tell And
we all know it is They did have flood in July; and
they have had drouth since But, riddle this, The
wholesale grocery merchants of this have done and
doing the biggest business Of their lives They selling
food and feedstu Of all kinds fast they ship it. Sell
ing country merchants In this territory these country
merchants course sell to farmers in their territory Nov
f the crops all failed The of all the spopks at once
where does the money come froma
Prices are so high everybody says they cannot aforc
them And according mathematics, they can't Yet
women wear Just many and wevedoar shoes the
wore FIVE and xdolar shoes And the draw the
wages bey did before How do they manage it2 We CIV