The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1923-03-22
W. A. Shipman For
Representative
To the Voters of Pearl
River County

R0Ou IrleHuS IN tne county, as well as
reasonable desire to serve you,
have definitely decided to offer N.Y.
self in the the Auguest 1928 primary
of the Democratic party as a candi-
date to represent you in the legis-
lature of the state.
believe that I am sufficiently
known to the majority of you to the
extent, at least, that you have a
fairly definite idea of the PRINCIPLES
political and otherwise, for which 7
Stand; that is, that this, has been,
should be and remain a government
OF equal rights for all the
people, with special privileges
for non; that the PRINCIPLES
OF Jeffersonian democracy should
prevail forever, as the faith of those
OF us who are the political heirs of
the great father of that brand of
modern democracy
l have very clear and decided views
touching certain matters that proper
ly come within the purview of the
duties of legislator.
l. Our statue books are all clutt-
cred up with a lot of statutes, acts,
and laws that are petty and frivolous
IN their nature, that add neither
weight or dignity to the law as
whole, nor benefit or hppiness
to the people affected by them.
The result of such petty laws is
to harass and annoy the citizen and
create apprehension in the minds of
the people, that an act, otherwise
harmless in itself, may be violation
of some silly and absurd enactment
placed on the books at the behest of
an uninformed legislator and without
serious consideration by the legisla-
. tlve bsdy as a whole. as.
I believe with Thomas Jefferson
that the man, or the people, who is
governed least in his everyday life,
is governed best.
2. Our school and road laws, are
in such ridiculous tumble, with
statute superimposed on statute, rule
upon rule, sand regulation on regula-
tion, that the result is, not even the
proverbial Philadelphia lawyer could
disentangle or harmonic them, or
bring order out of the chaos into
which they have fallen. Every sta
tute, rule and regulation pertaining to
the school system, and also those pre-
scribing the building and maintenance
of highways should be revised and a
plain, sensible, consistent and harmo-
ious scheme or system substituted for
the present unavoidable, Impractical
bic. conflicting patchwork method.
so that, the lawyer, anyway, may be
able to understand them, which is not
true of the present systems. l defy
any living human being to so con-
strue our school, and road laws as to
bring all of the various provisions
of the several statutes in harmony
one with another. $
3. There are between 100000 and
100000 school children in the state,
and at present prices OF school
books it costs an average OF about
$1,000 for each child to secure the
necessary and prescribed school text
books for ever year. On this basis
the enormous sum of Eight Million
Dollars is paid out by the people OF
Mississippi for school .books-none OF
which are published within the state.
For a. reasonable amount book-pub-
fishing plant may be built, equipped
and owned and operated by the state,
in which ALL SCHOOL TEXT
BOOKS can be printed and sold to
the fathers, mothers and guardians OF
the children of the state at actual
COST OF PRODUCTION. thereby
saving to the people and keeqing
within the borders of Mississippi
FOUR or FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
each year.
S. 4. Taxes are too high; there are
too many unnecessary offices and
useless officials to be paid from the
appropriations Of the peoples money.
wrung by taxation from patient and
long suffering people.
n. These are some Of the evils which
I shall. a. !, your representative, Il
elected, seek to remedy. There are
i ether ,tna&ters Nth which your fep-
! resentative must deal, but I consider
/, those discussed herein above as o.
i, paramount and prsseins imRortsnce
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