The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-02-03

without taxation, TO make all the money OF
the advantage that a fourteen year lease
viii afford. His first business then Is 10
ind the cheapest market from which TO gel
his supplies aud materials Of every KIND
Ofcourse none Of his cash viii be spent III
Jackson. Yicksburg, Holly Springs OF any
ether point 10 reach The points that
have heretofore enjoyed the trade OF the
Peuitentiary have 10 stand back
for ST. Louis, Chicago, Kew York ana
even Boston The proPrIetOrs of TINS
labor viii ind il 10 their interest To
cultivate these condemned of the law IN
the Mechanic Arts The criminal negro
who heretofore WAS whipped and sent 10
the cotton field, when he stole his neigh
boris pigs chickens. &c, now finds lodg-
mcut iu the Peniteutiary for the execution
Of these little accomplishments under the
benign Leasing system. Instead Of being
degraded for his crime he is elevated 20 the
rank of mechanic, and sent forth a. com
petitor Of the honest mechanic, who fights
for his country when she has battles to night
and does his part IN the support OF Govern
ment when taxes are to be paid. But say
the Les@ees these are matters that we have
nothing to do with We had this labor
given u- 20 make money with, and we in
tend 10 make IL If money can come out of It.
Now / ask in all candor and fairness, Is It
right that the State of Mississippi should
charter q IA mmoth establishment, made up
of its criminals 70 damage its good citizens
1t is all stuff that the State holds up its pow
crty as "a reason for such a course the State
Is bound 10 protect its good citizens against
the criminals, instead of eleyatlug said
criminals. which this Leasing System is sure
tn do. Opposition TO such an establishment
can't be maintained the me Chanlc who has
selected Jackson, Vicksburg or other places
as homes which will be affected by this sys-
tenn IL matters not If his children We're
born here or there whether il Is the place
of his choice or not, can't stand the pres
sure but must with heavy heart gather up
the little fragments left him and seek
another home, where n great State Monop-
oiv will not aSsail and beat downhis dearest
rights Thus / assume that FIVE hundred
good men that fight for their country when
fighting has to be done, and pay when Gov
eminent has to be supported, must leave
the field to this Monster, and hunt new
and less cOngenial home / will assume
further that the five hundred men with
their families distribute with the mer-
chant, the doctor, the lawyer, the butcher
and the baker, the proceeds of his labor
amounting to from three to five dollars per
day-make the calculation. and yoU VIII
find that from fifteen hundred to two thou
sand dollars daily viii be drawn from those
interested in the town of Jackson alone, and
there is no romance in this thing. Col.
ment to rebuild the Bowman House and
other residences in town. You will find
those pinks ofmoIality already engaged in
repairing buildings with tempting offers of.
no doubt cheap work, but when opposition
has been subdued the most exhOTbitaut
charges will be made 1t is time the citizens
of Jackson, at least were waking mp. The
fate of Jefferson city, Missouri, and other
places where this System Is carried out,
may be referred to, each of which is almost
completely depopulated of mechanics and
merchants
Aud why is this thing done2 The bug bear
held mp by our legislature is State poverty.
don't like the word that is used by your
very able correspondent, Kinds County,
(who by the by failed most signally to an
swer Warren County, Bosh-bosh, is not
argument, but may do to make q ,nnihS with
standing the small effort at ridicule, made
in little editorial in your paper of last
week some day, remains unanswered, and
VIII continue so. You say in yesterday s
issue that You are amechauie and identified
with that class, so You may be- but you are
State Printer also, and there is so general a
disposition with poor frail human nature to
praise the bridge, &c. 1t has not passed out
Of the recollectiOns of some that the act
Leasing was very highly Landed in Your pa
per when the act was contaminated all this
You had right to do, either as n public or
private character. But it is Objectionable
that you take both sides of this question
II the State has done wrong in this leasing
If she has injured one of her good citizens
by 1t, It Is her duty to recant, rescind the
contract, pay damages If necessary to put
herself right. / have not a word to say
against one of tins corps of lessees, indiyid-
ually they may all be good men. But ask
them the question and they viii answer YOU
that they entered into this contract regard
less Of whose interests were worsted and that
they viii work at what viii pay them best.
You are Of opinion that there is nothing to
of as many mechanics will be en-
plOyed as teachers of these outlaws in the
various branches. Well, ii was hoped for the
credit of the craft something had been said
less insulting and degrading to the sensibil
tiles of good mentor my own part, if /
were there in that capacity. / would never
feel at liberty TO look any of my old friends
in the face again. have no doubt that in
very short time, yourself or some other good
practical printer, could so cultivate these
criminal negroes as to enable Major Young
to do the public printing at just 80 per cent.
less than the Clarion Office can afford to do
1t, but think YOU that the Typographical
Union would not rat You TO death FORT.
merely call your attention to it to show
You that there has not been thought enough
given to this matter The great hurry to
through, and in such position that it could
not be reached, oyer-leaped-an other con-
sloerauous, and many men were found rea-
dy To say a good thing was done, without
counting up all the cost in the matter, You
say why open this question now, when the
thing Is done and no remedy for it : Why
not have taken hold of it before it became
a law aud contracts l answer, that no OPP
portunlty was given; the matter was hur-
RED through almost without discussion In
the Legislature, and there seemed to be hot
haste every where to close ont to Young x
Co, they We're to have il, and the State get
rid of all but forty or tfty thousand dollars,
$4,000, OF S5o,0o0,) 10 bring the criminals
20 them, tcAlch tCdS certainly great trroRq. Iii
this labor was worth having free gratis. it
was worth going for. But the commission
erS were very anxious to help lessees out
OF a very tad bargain, and in great charity
and mercy. must make this very heavy out
lay they had unfortunately tumbled into
hastily, and without reflection, no doubt
Now was not that kind and good in these
liberal commissioners To help the lessees out
OF this tritiing little affair. Now lust think
1t cost the State enough money to hand over
, these precious pieces of mortality to pur.
chase machinery enough to work (30Ol
of them in the penitentiary. and under nm
per State management would make as much
money for the State as Young * Co. could
make. only mention this To show tkat
there has been TOO much hurry to secure
Young 81 Co. All this is foreign to nv mr.
pose, however / wished To show thai hx,
TINS leasing system. the State has damaged
Its good citizeus, by means of its criminals.
an idea certainly that should be most re-
voting 20 a wise and good Legislator, and
II by hurry aud miseoneeption he has done
wrong, il Is his bonnden duty TO undo or
put night as speedily as possible the wrong
done. The question may be asked, what
shall be done ;" answer in return. let the
Legislature pass an act eonfnln-~she con-
victs 10 the grounds of the prison, to hmfen-
gagged in the manufacture Of such artiaiaa as
viii not interfere with local interests. or re-
turn TO the old system
In view of the momentoCs interest of this
subject. would suggest that meeting of
the citizens be held on next Tuesday eve
ming, at o'clock, at the City Hall
JACKSON
In few years, ten at most, we ex-
meet Meridian n ha 4ha Ia,,.-k -.