Show A FEW Mississippi politicians in the Legislature of that State thought top to-p > themselves with the voters by building an expensive monument to the Confederate soldiers A bill was introduced in-troduced iu the House appropriating the necessary money and last week the vote was taken on its passage To inspire the members a portraitof Jeff Davis and p a tattered battle flag were displayed over the Speaker desk but the measure failed thero being a good deal more common senso than extravagant sentiment senti-ment in the chamber Monuments are excellent things when people can afford hem but Mississippi with an immense public debt a people just beginning to 1 cover from the abject poverty into which they were plunged by the war and a State anything but rich in its natural resources can find better uses for It money than putting it into bronze and marble piles to be gazed at by coming generations If Mississippi has good luck and is prosperous perhaps sometime some-time during the next century she will be in a condition to celebrate in stone the deeds of her brave sons but just now it will be wiser to expend the money in educating the children and supporting the widows of those bravo sons |