The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-15

Taxpayers! I on were DaTeIy aDie
TO meet the demand Of the Collector.
In order to save your little all from sale
under his hammer, you have had to
borrow money at q per cent. per month,
and to mortgage your land and stock,
and pledge the last pound of cotton and
the last grain Of corn you will be able to
produce by the severest toll. Your
families are deprived of the necessaries
of life, and your children are beggared
and in rags! What has brought you to
this condition? The money that would
have supplied your necessities has been
torn from you by violence in order to
enrich the et-bag plunderers who are
reVelling in the fruits of your sweat and
blood
In the extracts which we present below
few of the items of expenditures are
stated. To these many others may be
added.
The session of the Legislature which
ought not to have cost exceeding $50, 900
swelled up to not less than $3.50, 900.
The Judiciary when represented by
snch men as Sharkey, C. P. Smith,
VIM. L. Harris, Henry t. Elicit, VIM.
Yerger, A. H. Handy and A. NJ. Clay
ton-cost you $4,000. The cost for
this service under the Mongrel regime, is
1920, ZOO.
For assessing your property you have
paid this year S175, 900. Formerly the
cost was $4,000
Your printing bill the present year will
exceed ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS. For single item which
the printer formerly performed for one
hundred dollars, you will now be charged
not less than FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
We allude to the publication of the laws
in the official journal.
An enormous furniture account amount
ing to thousands of dollars, for the Senate
and Representative Halls and Commit
tee Rooms, the items of which will
hereafter be laid before you, is among
the appropriations to satisfy the greed of
contractors and spectators and Big YaI-
Ter Aid-de-camp, at your expense.
A few years ago when the property of
the State was worth six hundred millions
of dollars, three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars betrayed all the expen-
ses of the State government. Now,
when the value of this property has been
diminished to one hundred and seventy
millions of dollars, the annual expenses
have been run up to ONE MILLION THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Your
plunderers thought it small matter to
include nearly double the amount of the
former expenditure in a single act with
out specifying an item.
Taxpayers, how do you like the pic
ture? Are these abuses to go on? Be
warned in time that although they are
outrageous, the abuses are but as a mole
hill compared to the mountain which will
be piled upon you if you do not effect a
change of lawmakers in the coming
elections:
From the Brandon Republican.
Radical thieves consider it progressive
for the Governor to ask for, and receive
fifty thousand dollars to deal out to favorite
pimps and scayengers, and to make no re-
port of the same.
To assess and collect five hundred thous-
and dollars in taxes from the people. over
and above the necessary expenses of the
State government, that the stealage may be
good.
To appropriate six hundred thousand
dollars of the peoples money, without say
ing to whom, or for what purpose.
To appropriate forty thousand dollars to
repair the Governors Mansion, which cost
thirty-three thousand, that car
pet-bag negroes and floating riff-raffs might
have good place to SIT and hear "Jeems''
consider grave questions in the form of a
"theSis." 1t is said that on such occasions