The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-08-02
TO the People Of Mississippi:

Inc campaign is drawing to a
close. 1t has been one long to be
remembered. We have seen the
amazing spectacle of some big tax
dodgers, some big timber syndicates.
VINO have stolen timber from school
!cnildren Of the state, combined with
fhe fire insurance trust, convicted in
fhe chancery and supreme courts of
sMiss'ssippi and penalized almost a
million dollars, combined with a de-
faulting state officer, constituting a
most unholy alliance with the avowed
purpose of furnishing me for doing
my sworn duty and of taking posses
sion of the revenue agents office and
placing an officer therein or their.
own selection who will do their bid
ding.
The demand that the state revenue
agents office be crippled our "per-
nicious'' antitrust laws repealed, and
the lawsuit against the fire insurance
companies for violation of our anti
trust laws abated vas contained in an
Mltimatum issued by c. j. Doyle OF
New York City, general counsel Tor
the fire Insurance trust, when he
came to Mississippi thirty odd months
ago and states that Unless these
things we're done, the fire insurance
companies which he represented
would withdraw from the state and
remain away, thus destroying the
business and credit of the state and
forcing the sovereign state of Missis-
eippi and its business enterprises into
bankruptcy.
! MISSISSIPPI TOO NOBLE TO
| CRlNGE.
Referring to this threat and inso-
lent demand, Chancellor V. j. Strick-
er, who tried the fire insurance anti
trust suit and penalized Mr.. Doyle's
clients more than $4,000, 100000, said:
"You cannot enforce submission Of
this people in that way. They are
like old cIemenceau, that great lead
er and soldier, in the darkest hours,
perhaps Of French history. In the
crisis he was asked as to the resources
human resources. WELL he said,
I'VE will fight until the men are all
dead; and when the men are all dead,
the women will rise up; and when the
women are all dead, the children will
rise up; and when the children are
all dead, the dead will rise up, for
France will be free If she lives, and
France will live"
Every right-thinking Mississippian
will agree with the chancellor that
Mississippi is too great a state, her
traditions too noble, and her history
too patriotic to cringe in craven fear
before any power that would under
take to bludgeon her into submission.
Millions of dollars literally leaped
from the pockets of patriotic Missis-
sippians and fire insurance companies
within our own borders were formed
and no one lacked for insurance. Fur
tbermore. these Mississippi fire in
surance companies loaned every cent
OF their assets ON Mississippi secur-
fly to Mississippi people. The for
eign companies had never loaned a
cent to Mississippi people or invested
a cent in the state. The foreign fire
insurance companies left the state, I
but before they left, |, as your state
revenue agent, authorized a commit,
tee of the best business men of the
state to offer everything that could |
be offered and maintain the dignity |
of the state to keep them from leav-
ing. agreed to let them give bond |
for their assets held in their Missis'
aippi agents hands by writs or gar
fi1hment. agreed to issue no more |
Writs Of garnishment and to permit +
them to do business in the way in /
which they had done it. pending the
outcome Of the lawsuit. provided they I
would agree to abide BY the result ,
q The lawsuit and to remain In the I
nt1te They left the state, Just as
they had left South Carolina and Ar
lamar, and had threatened to leave
4llnct1. their ayoWed purpose being