The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-03

uniting in an appeal to the Legislature for
relief from oppressive taxation that is an
incubus on the industry Of the country,
and if persisted in, viii end in widespread
ruin and bankruptcy.
We learn that Rankin and other coun-
ties will be represented in this Convention
and we hope TO see a meeting held in
Lauderdale and delegates appointed so
that this part of the State may nave a voice
in the proceedings While We regard the
Democratic party as the party of retrench-
ment and reform, we do not think it the
part of wisdom, to decline to make an
effort to obtain relief because the Legisla-
ture and State officers are Republican.
We believe proper appeal from the peo-
pie without regard to party will result IN
good.
1t this effort to reduce the enormous
expenditures which their bad legislation
has fastened on the State, we have the CO..
operation Of the most respectable of their
newspapers and public men, and if We
press the matter vigorously the Legislature
will be forced to adopt such measures as
will give us immediate relief.
In addition to the above editorial, the
Star publishes call for a meeting, say
ing:
We publish call for a meeting to be
held at the court house on the 9th OF
December to organize a Tax-Payers'
League. The call was signed by about
fifty of the most respectable citizens Of the
county, and trust will result in the
formation of tax payers league for the
county, and the appointment OF delegates
to represent the county in the proposed
Tax PAYERS Convention to be held at Jack
son, Jan. 4th.
From the Brandon Republican,
STATE CONVENTION OF TAX-PAYERs-A
MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
At meeting of the tax payers league
of the first district of Kinds county, held
at jackson on the 10Th inst, committee
was appointed to issue call for a State
Convention of Tax Payers, in order that
our grievances may be laid before the
Legislature, and an earnest appeal made
for retrenchment. The Committee has
issued call for a convention at jackson
on the 4th day of January, and we heart
lily approve the movement and hope to see
every county in the State represented.
Now is the time to strike the blow.
The result of the recent elections has
shown the party in power that people
will no longer submit to this wholesale
robbery, and that unless they speedily
reduce the enormous expenditures they
will all be hurled from place and power
by an outraged constituency. We now
have the cooperation Of all the more
decent portion of the Republican press
of the State, and if we press the matter
vigorously the Legislature will be forced
to yield to our demands.
The next meeting of the Central League
of Rankin county will be held on Mon
day, the 7th day of December, and as
that will be the only meeting held be-
fore the meeting of the State Convention,
we hope to see every tax payer of the
county present, a delegation of honest
and capable men elected as delegates.
No people on earth can prosper with
the burthens heaped upon us by our law
makers-most of whom have no property
to be taxed. and are only intent upon
robbing the people to fill their own peck
cts. Our taxes are now about fifteen
(sixteen) hundred per cent. higher than
they were before the war, when our tax
able property was five times as much as
it is now. Then we had honest and
capable men to administer our laws-now
we have uneducated negroes in the most
responsible positions, and fifth-rate lawyers
for Judges and Chancellors, to whom we
pay enormous salaries. Take, for instance,
the Chancery District composed of the
counties of Scott, Smith, Covington and
Simpson Forty days steady work would
dispose of all the business in the four
and yet we pay little mutton
headed Yankee, who could not command
a salary of fifty dollars per month in
any other bushes, the sum Of three
five hundred dollars. The fol-
lowing figures show the increased cost of
the several departments of the State gov
ernment in 1874 over the cost in 1860,
when the value of our property was five
times as great as it is now