The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-12-15

The Heal Desar0yers of dlae PmbIfe
Credit and the Consumers OF Ghe
Peoples Earnfngs.
Nothing could be more unreasonable
than the pretence of Radical rulers that
the credit of the State has been assailed
by what they term 'unscrupulous poll
ticians," because the Democratic press
have censured their prodigacy in the adj
ministration of the State Government
and demonstrated the unconstitutionality
and wickedness of laws they have passed
in aid of their general plan of enriching
and aggrandising themselves at the cost
of the taxpayers
1t is not the exposure of these schemes,
but the SCHEMES themselves that are 40
complishing the mischief so lugnbriously
mentioned in the Executive communica-
ton to the Railroad Presidents
Theenormous expenditures of the par
ty in power, exceeding all precedent in
the management of. every department of
the State Government, would necessarily
destroy the credit Of the State, or at
least weaken confidence in its securities
Where tens Of dollars we're required to
administer the affairs of the State, hun
dreds are now appropriated by the alien
and scalawag usurpers to fill their peck
cts. Look at the expenditures of the
last session of the Legislature They
Will exceed Certainly not fall under) a
millions of dollars, being an excess OF
six hundred thousand voted by any OF
its predecessors. And the affirmation ad-
mits of proof that many millions of dol
lars annually will be required to carry In
to effect the various measures which were
put into the shape Of laws and were pass
ed by that body There is no way IN
der the sun for raising this money except
by pledging the faith of the State (Which
cannot be done without violating
the Constitution or by direct and imme-
date taxation. 1t was with knowledge
of this fact, and in pursuance of the pur
pose to aid the swarms ofrapacious spoils
men who are infesting the State, tina
the taxes were quintupled, and tha
shoals of collectors, ike birds of evi
omen, are sent out to gather the harvesti
on which these spoilsmen intend to grow
rich.
If any one wants to know how the cred
it of the State is being destroyed, and
how the people are brought to the con
temptation of want and misery, let hin
examine the acts of this Legislature. =
Not only have the spoilsmen largely in
creased the number of office holder,
throughout the State, but they have in
variably increased their salaries at the
very moment when the pecuniary distress
of the people required the curtail
ment of expenses and the most eco
nomical administration of the Govern
ment. The cost of the Legislature Itself
was enormous. Employees of all de
scriptions unexampled in the history o.
its predecessors, were engaged at extrava
CANT salaries, to encourage idleness, sup
ply the DEFICIENCIES of incompetency and
to reward partisan services. The iniquit
Gus Secret Service Fund provided under
pretense Of enforcing the criminal laws
of the State, but really designed for the
vile purposes of hiring pimps and inform
ers and quartering political missionaries
on the public crib, is an item not to be
overlooked in this wholesale onslaught of
the army of spoilsmen upon the credit
and industry of the people. The abuse
which they are heaping upon the Con
sentative press for exposing their crimes,
is the borrowed expedient of the scuttle
fish which seeks concealment by blacken-
ing the waters around it. But they will
be dragged before the bar Of the public
lie for trial and conviction ere long.