The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09
Another Startling Exhibit of the
Increase of Expenditures mm.
der CarPef-BaG ScaIIa-
WaS Rule.
THE EMINENT MANS BATTERY TURNED
UPON HIM

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taxation imposed on the impoverished
people of the State, by the Wreckers
who were admonished ''to gather up
what they could lay their hands upon,
Gov. Alcorn in his stump speeches has
been in the habit of selecting the year
1896, under Citizens rule, for an exam
pie, and asserting that they do ex-
coed the expenditures under Carpet-bag-
ocailawag Rule for the years 1870 and
loI, respectively. Not content with
this bold assumption before the promis-
cuous audiences who have been present
at his discussions, and who have wit
messed Its complete exposure, he has
rushed with it into print, and has thus
subjected it TO exposure and refutation
In still more enduring form
We will premise that the entire expen-
ditures for 1856 are set down at S825.-
562 %, including s279, 861 OF on ac-
count of Chickasaw School Fund, and
S157 1853 rs on oecount of Internal I'm
BAOfOhA%hbSS OCSiNlCS not
embraced in the ordinary expenditures of
the government and making in the ag-
gregate largely upwards of four hundred
thousand dollars. Auditors Report, Sen
ate Journal, Session 1856, p. 104. And
that the entire expenditures for 1870,
(Mongrel Rule) were 81, 061, 249 90-in
which but s104, 129 90 are set down to
the account of the Chickasaw School
Fund-none to the Internal Improve
ment Fund-and showing the cost of the
State government, exclusive of extraor-
binary items Of that kind, to have been
about 5000, 900; or nearly three times
as much as the cost of administering the
government of the State in times of pros
perity, when her property valuation was
$500, 900, 900, instead of SIP, 900, 900
as at present. Auditor Musgrove's Re
port, January, 1871, p. 49, The sta
tistics Of disbursements for the year 1871
by the same authority, (Musgrove's Re
port, p. Ill, make still worse exhibit
for the Wreckers. The estimated expen-
ditures (for 1870 are set down at ST.
319, 1926 19-(S170,O00 of which sum
was on account of Chickasaw School
Fund, but it is known that these esti-
mates fall far below the reality. For in
stance, the expenditures on account of
the Legislature are estimated at s135, 900,
while they actually reached $3.50, 900!
Thus making a difference in this item
alone of S135, 900! The cost of Public
Printing is stated to be $50, 900, which is
about $50, 900 below the real mark
These two items alone make upwards of
5000, 900, which added to the S1,319,
626 10, aggregate the enormous sum of
upwards of S1,519,626 10. OF this
sum at least 81, 100000, are being APP
piled, for what are termed the ordinary
expenses of the State government
Against these enormous sums $500, 900
for 1870 and 81, 200, 900 for 1870 is to
be placed the expenditures for ordinary
purposes under Citizens Rule in 1856
(the year selected by the Governor for
comparison, in order to make the best
showing he is able for his prohigate and
plundering crew)-amounting to but
1857, 1874 81!
But to abandon generalities for
details, and more clearly to demonstrate
the extravaganza of Carpet-bag Scalawag
Rule as compared with Citizens Rule, we
will present statement of certain items
of the ordinary expenses, so that every
reader may see for himself, and that the
way-faring man though fool cannot err
therein: