Conservative *
would have cast thorn about as fol
lows :
Alike for the sake of the good name of
the slate , and from motives of enlightened
self-interest , see to it that the stigma of
repudiation be removed by making , with
the creditors of the slate , such honorable
sclllemcnl as they may be willing to
freely accept.
( While on this point , it is duo to myself -
self to say that I do not own , nor do I
know any one who does own , a single
bond of the state of Mississippi , except
ing only the trustees of the Peabody ed
ucational fund. Moreover , the Illinois
Central railroad company and the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley railroad company
are , and have been for very many years ,
probably over since they began operat
ing railroads in the state , the largest
payers of taxes in Mississippi. It will ,
therefore , bo on their shoulders that the
heaviest part of the burden which I now
invite will fall. )
I would say : Look forward and not
backward. Bo mindful of your own
future and that of your children , for
both of which you are responsible. Let
the dead past bury its dead. As Col.
Henry Wattorson said some two or
three years ago , "It is high time that
the South stopped feeding on Cob
webs. "
Instead of further overstocking the
learned professions , turn your well
trained minds to the development of the
vast latent resources of your own fav
ored laud. Bring to bear upon com
mercial , manufacturing , and what are
now called business pursuits , the wealth
of inherited and acquired intellectual
capacity with which it has pleased God
to endow you. Be mindful that to you
much has boon given and that of you
much will be required. Do not wrap
your talent in a napkin and bury it in
the ground of sloth and idle content
ment.
I would say with Horace Greeloy :
"Young man , go West , " but I would
not add , as he did , "and grow up with
the country. " No , I would rather add ,
find out what of good there is in the
West , which has within a generation
made a desert blossom as the rose. Solve
that riddle , bring the secret book to the
far more favored land in which you had
the fortune to be born , and apply it with
energy and perseverance , and doubt not
as to the outcome , alike for yourself and
for the state.
And , finally , I would say : Combine
your capital ( which may not be in
money , but consist of far more potent
and valuable things , such as education ,
character , capacity , perseverance and
honesty of purpose ) , with the capital of
others , and , for their sake and yours
and the good of the state , make com
mon cause for mutual profit. ' 'In union
< * there is strength. " Or as the -French
-better express it' 'union makes strength. ' '
. - My dear Mr. Chancellor , iu closing
let mo crave your indulgence for the
many imperfections of this letter which
has of necessity been written in the
midst of frequent interruptions.
If it contains a thought or a suggest
ion of value to the state , or its univer
sity , I shall be more than repaid.
Thanking you again for the honor
tendered , and again regretting that
pressing engagements hero prevent niy
saying by word of mouth to the mem
bers of the university that with which
my heart is big , I remain
With great respect ,
STUYVESANT FISII ,
President of the Illinois Central rail
road company.
Now York , May 28 , .1901.
A USE FOR CORN COBS.
Corn cobs , says the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat , arc to be utilized as a special
kindling , and it has been demonstrated
that fire engines can be fired to the point
of steam with them in less time than
anything else. Their process is unique.
The cobs are first crushed and then
saturated with a highly inflammable
material composed partly of rosin.
Then they are compressed and after
wards sawed into blocks. They lose the
appearance of the despised cob. While
the process was invented at Waco , it
will not be utilized there. A company
will be established at Parsons , Kansas ,
in the midst of the corn belt , and there
is no doubt it will prove a winner.
COALS ON TORTOISE STATESMEN.
The democratic party cannot live and
stancTon the platforms of 189G and 1900.
It cannot get rid of those platforms
without shaking the few men who made
them. They are back numbers , and as
dry and sterile as last year's bird nests.
In a few short years wo have changed
from a buying nation to a selling nation.
From an almost insignificant sum our
exports of merchandise rose last year
to the immense sum of $1,394,500,000 ,
whereas our imports have increased only
about 25 per cent , in twenty years. Con
ditions have changed changed very
greatly. Agriculture , manufacturing ,
mining , trade , commerce , railroading ,
shipping all have made wonderful
progress ; the arts and the sciences have
bounded forward with the impulse of
the new age ; knowledge grows with our
growth , and the captains of industry
mount to pinnacles not dreamed of in
the wildest speculation of the youth of
a half-generation ago. Everything and
everybody moves except our statesmen
our Bryans , our Altgelds , and our
Tillmaus. They cling to the dead
fetiohism of an age that is past. It
mocks our poverty and disheartens our
young men.
There is no room for a new party in
this country no third party ever
amounted to anything but there is
room for new life , new vigor , better
things in the two old ones. If Me-
Latirin succeeds in building fire on the
backs of some of our snail moving tor
toise statesmen , he will accomplish
something. Macon , ( Ga ) . Telegraph ,
( Dem ) .
THE DECISION WITH THE PEOPLE.
There is a general feeling at home
that , the court having thrown now re
sponsibility on congress , and greatly in
creased its power as well as duty , the
broad issue involved in the controversy
must bo faced by the people in the com
ing congressional elections. The election
of a majority of congressmen favoring
elastic construction of the constitution
and an opportunist policy in dealing
with territory which is not yet a terri
tory , will bo taken as evidence of the
will of the people to expand along lines
more like those of the British empire
than like those of our own national
past. In so far as electors were farsighted -
sighted enough to see this parting of the
ways when they last voted , the next
congress will reflect a definite popular
opinion on this matter. But not until
the coming elections are held , dissevered
from all personal fears aroused by the
candidacy of a man distrusted for his
financial vagaries , will it bo possible to
say with certainty what the people will
wish our national policy to bo. The
( Boston ) Cougregatioualist.
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