The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
Let che Tax Payer be ne1Ieved. !

Lex tAe TAX Payers DC &ektewe9-
The newspapers Of the State are filed
with advertisements Of property 70 he
sold for taxes The law which required
the collection of taxes twice the past year
whether 50 designed or not, has operated
as measure of conGscation. Numbers
Of the people have not been able TO meet
the double requisition of the tax gatherer
in consequence of the failure of their
crops and the embarrassments under
which they we're previously suffering from
the grasping and the vindictive policy of
the dominant party. VIII not the Legis
lature do something for the relief of
those people? Do they intend that their
property shall he sacrificed without an
effort to save them from the disasters
which impend over them through the i'm
providence and recklessness of selfcoDsti-
tuted agents? Better that these last
should be turned out on the commons to
beg, to borrow, to steal or to starve, than
that the planting and laboring classes on
whose shoulders the weight of this grievi-
Gus burden is falling, should be still
further crippled in their resources and
bankrupted. The present condition of
affairs has not been brought on by their
mismanagement. 1t is the folly and greed
Of gain Of the carpet-bag vultures that
have fattened themselves on their vitals.
TO Ale Conservative Members OF
dIIe Legislature.
We trust the CONSERVATIVES will, at all |
times, bear in mind the following points |
The taxpayers of the State expect them
to>use their influence and give their votes
to bring about:
The reduction of taxes.
The reduction of salaries
The reduction Of the per diem of mem
bers Of the Legislature.
The breaking up of lobby and ring in
fuences.
The stopping of large appropriations.
The reduction Of the number of clerks, |
Sergeant-at-arn. ; assistants, door-keeper,
pages and other hangers-on
around the Legislature.
The appointment &C committees to in
vestigate the expenses of the various
departments Of the State government and
to compare them with the expenses of
those departments under citizens rule.
The stopping of the enormous waste
Of letter-heads, stationery, DC, that went
during the last Legislature.
The passage of relief laws for the ben
Eft of those persons whose property is
being confscated under the guise Of tax
laws.
The passage of a law to prevent Boards
IF County Supervisors from overburthen-
ng the taxpayers.
The passage of a law to prevent Boards
IF School Directors making extravagant
purchases Of furniture &c. As these
Boards have done in many counties.
The appointment of committee with
power to send for persons and papers to
investigate the manner in which the
Secret Service Fund was expended, and
earn as nearly as can be what went with
his enormous amount of the peoples
money.
The stopping by the previous question
md other parliamentary tactics of ex-
.essive speaeh making. Compel more l
-oting and less talking
The passage of a more equitable print '
ng law.
The driving of lobby thieves and pimps {
rom the Capital
The taxpayers and real people of Mis- c
issippi have an abiding faith in the Con- q
ervative and Democratic members of the I
They believe that their in I
erests are safe in the hands of these
entlemen. That they be not disappoint- 7
4 every Conservative and Democratic
lember should be in his seat to-day when
he Legislature is called to order, and Il
OF be absent single day during the p
ession. r
Remember the taxpayers expect their a
to vote AGAINST ALL o
UNLESS THEY BE ABso- II
UTELY NECESSARY TO CARRY on THE Il
TATE GOVERNMENT. And do not vote i.
II the appropriation then unless you are ?
lilly satisfied that a lesser amount will 5,
OF suffice. :;
\ just equitable arrangement for the s.
of the penitentiary. =
a modification of the Apportionment "
-illiany, so as to secure each county at p
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