Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-07

sufficient revenue 10 run the machih
cry OF the State, aud pay the interest
and We have no idea they will-that they
may repeal the funding bill, and not
leave blot and blur upon the statute
book. Jackson Wig aud Tribune.
II the friends OF the funding job re-
Gently put up by the Legislature OF TINS
State will demonstrate how often eight
will 20 into feur, we think they will be
able TO show how tax OF forty cents on
the hundred dollars will be sufficient TO
pay what the igures show cannot be
paid by eighty cents on the hug
dred dollars. Get 10 your states, gentle
men, the people want 10 see you work
out that problem. Ibid.
The heretofore deemed impossible feat
Of running a larger number through a
smaller one, is said TO have been accom-
plished--or promised TO be-by the fund
ers In the late Legislature. They aetn.
ally promise-and seem 10 believe they II
do tito pay s., go 556 with ~ 900, 900
The eyes of the financial world are upon
this problem, and the men who success
fully work it out will be gazetted for i'm
moriality.-Ibid.
II gives us pleasure 10 announce that
the Hon. j. p. Young faithfully repre-
sented his county in his vote upon the
fanding act, recently enacted by our
Legislature. and registered his vote
arainst that most iniquitous measure.
This is the duty of all representatives.
They are selected, and the trust reposed
in them. that they will constantly reflect
the will of their constituents; and II a
representative should differ from his
constituents so far that he cannot con-
scienti0usly support measures that he |
believes their wish demands, then he |
ought to resign and give place to SEINE
man whose notions are more IN accord |
with those Of his people, and who will
be. not ia name, only, but in fact, rep
resentative Of those who delegated him.
Colonel Young had doubtless the senti-
ments Of the people of Lauderdale in
lively remembrance when he turned his
back on Wall street, and marched in
the ranks Of his outraged and mlsrepre-
scented State. May every vote that he
casts while in the Legislature meet with
as hearty a ratification from the people
Of his county as does this one.-Riptey
Neps.
Ii is said that Tom Scott carries the
Legislatures of thirteen States securely
in his pocketbook. Who is carrying
the Legislature Of Tennessee, and where
Is he carrying II? Who are interested
in the payment of this debit The peo-
Die of Tennessee are not, for it is the
charge made against them, the price
hey pay for the luxury of having been
.axed without being represented, and OF
having been ground beneath the heel OF
he most relentless tyrant since the days
Of Nero or Richard III.
We have yet to meet one honest yeo-
man who favors the payment Of the
Brownlow bonds. We regard those
bonds as representing the sum stolen
rom Tennessee by a set Of robbers,
such as are now feeding upon the vitals !
lf Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas !
and South Carolina.
They took advantage Of the sHbdued .
Of our State, wrung from the
people all the money they had, and this
not satisfying their thirst for booty, they
lad recourse 10 the fertile resource of
ssuing million on million Of the bonds ,
If the State, pledgiug for their redemp-
ion the property of the men whom they '
Jared not entrust with the ballot, lest
hey might raise a protest against their
'obbefy and their villainy-Ibid.
We have a stock ofthe same sort large
enough to run all summer, and shall adj
minister aIlopathic doses according TO
he strength aud febrile symptoms of
be patients afflicted with funding ON the :
rain.