The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-04-28
SOME CAUSTIC CON-
MENT ON LEGIS-
LATURE
TATE COUNTY CITIZEN THINKS LEGISLATORS
COMMITTED POLITICAL SUICIDE ACTION IN
NOT TRIMMING APPROPRIATIONS VERY pIsAP-
POINTING TO TAXPAYERS
Coldwater, Miss, r. F. D.
April "a, 1922.
EDITOR GRENADA SENTINEL

EDITOR GRENADA SENTINEL
Now that the Mississippi Legislature ha.
adjourned and gone home "unwept, unnonor-
ed" and UNHUNG, we can pause and ask
ourselves the question, Why is the Mississippi
Legislature anyhow?
We must have committed some great and
sinful crime to have this body of costly in
comPetents thrusts upon US every two years
and, if it is the pleasure of the Governor,
oftener. But now that they have quit and
gc% home can do as we have often done
before when storm has passed and left a
roof still over our heads, "thank God the
thing is over at least for the time being and
we still have roof over US"
Judging them by their actions, no greater
aggregation of wild asses ever assembled at
any place at any time than the body which
hae just adjourned and thoughtles.ly left a
roof to still cover the taxpayers heads. We
asked in our distress "for bread and they gave
US a stone" We asked for relief and they
would have actually added to our burdens if
there had not been few men who were
either honest or feared the wrath of the
people. BY very transparent fraud, they
pretented to reduce the tax levy by one mill.
This, instead of bringing relief, will only
add to burdens as we shall have 10 borrow
money in the summer to tide us over and
pay interest on it. If they had cut down ex-
penses as they promised to do they could have
reduced the levy to s mills and avoided the
necessity of borrowing.
1t was the very truth wbcs forne, Governor
Earl Brewer in his celebrated letter to the
present misfit who now occupies that once
honorable place said that the appropriations
for each of so called great institutions of
learning could be cut to the extent Of $4,000 |
efficiency. And Brewer knew what he was
talking about.
The people have sit supinely and let things |
go as they would until, if they open or at |
tempt to open their heads in protest, they are
given the horse laugh
for one was afraid in their endeavor 10 |
see that the "greater institutions had all they |
asked for they would cut the common school |
fund so as to give the country children who
get so very little, even less. But that was the
one thing they dared not do. The Governor
with his Text Book Commission had made it
almost impossible for the poor folks 10 get
books for their children.
Why are the children of the rich and un-
ycdly given through their teachers and fine
buildings all their hearts can wish and the
hildren of the poor handed little' Don't
hey know the country boy with all the dis
advantages he labors under is going to be the
uling power in this country of ours3 Does
lot all history show this? 1t is not the poor,
ale faced, cigarette-smoking dude with the
ich father that is going to be the controlling
oroe in Mississippi in the years to come. 1t
the poor boy who follows the plow and
'ho is an expert manipulation OF the hoe that
laying up Drawn and bone by honest toll
hat will be the ruler. That pale faced, Gig
rette-smoking dude, whether he is your son or
nine, is damned before the race of life has
ven been started. He hasn't chance. Born
f father who is too busy to look after him,
e is turned over to his mothers care, who is |
usy with Clubs, Church duties, and other {
1ings away from home and pays very little
ttention to her children, her housekeeping {
r the cook. In many the boy is made
"sissy" and kept tied to his fond mothers
prom strings as long as he will stand it and {
len perhaps seeks companions among the $
orst classes and gravitates naturally into a