The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-01-12


levies are restrained as are hereinafter
asked for.
The fees of the Chancery and Circuit
clerks and Sheriff are too high, and we
are sorry to add, in many instances, are
very much increased by exorbitant and
illegal charges. We ask that this subject
be carefully looked into by the Legisla-
ture, and the rates so fixed, that whilst
fair and just compensation is allowed for
these services, the burdens of the sutton
shall not be so great as they now are.
And We suggest that the State, ike the
United States, will fix a point in com
pensation of county Ulcers, beyond which
the fees shall go into the State Treasury.
In many counties this point might be
! fixed at $500, in others at 81 900 or $1,000,
| but III no instance should it be fixed be-
yond So, 900 for clerks, and 81, 500 for
sheriff including their gains as Tax col
| lectors.
The jail fees are a great burden on the
people; they are now too high; and yet
in many Instances extra compensation is
allowed by the Board Of Supervisors
They should be fixed at the cost of a
plain and healthy support of the prisoners
imprisonment IN the county Jail as pun
ishr ent should be made less frequent
Unfortunately many who are guilty of
petty misdemean0rs feel neither the bur
den nor the disgrace of imprisonment in
the county jail. We leave it to the wis
dom Of the Legislature to devise some
other mode Of punishment, which, with
out infiicting corporal pain or bringing
forward any badge of slavery, may yet
5 prove more eftcacious in reforming often
ders, and be less expensive to the tax,
payers.
The law also should require the
convicts, sentenced to the penitentiary, tC
5 be immediatel Y removed to the State
5 prison. They are now, in many instances
! left in the county jails Tor many months
r to the great cost Of the several counties
r The jail fees for day should not exceed
e 80 cents.
The salaries Of Inspectors of the Peni
Tertiary ought to be saved to the State
1 by imposing the very light duties of thes
! offices on other State officers, or on com
e petent citizens without salaries.
=, The trustees Of the Insane, Deaf anC
/ Dumb and Blind Asylums should be pro
S hibited from using any of the funds ap
: propriated to these Institutions, in tn
: way of salaries or fees to themselves
: The appropriations to the State Uni
n versities are beyond the means of tn
, State to pay, and beyond the necessitie
u Of these institutions.
/ The salaries"nd mileage paid to tn
. L ~, r.. L
IL prohibited. The duties of these officer
u are extremely light and highly honorable
like services Of all other institutions c
u learning in the State, and throughou
} the Union, are rendered blythe best citizen
80 without compensation.
70 Again the expenditure of the State
money-poor as the people are-and |;
= boring under the most crushing taxatio
u for the board and support of certai
,r students, is wrong. The State is undt
=, no obligation to furnish these favored te
:; with what is denied to the children of Il
= State at large. The State supposes 81
y discharges her duty to the great mass
y her children, when she furnishes scho0
IL free of tuition for four months in the yea
l. These schools are for the people at larg
g. the colleges and universities are for tt
~ more fortunate few. Not more than or
~ in thousand, even in the most favore
re countries, ever 60 to college. 1t is wron
Il that nine hundred and ninety-nine shout
n be burdened with taxation so crushin
at that they are deprived, in many instance
IL Of the means OF even going to commO
or scho0I-in order that one fortunate perso
Fy shall have extraordinary benefits denie
a to the others. We therefore ask that II
scholarships in the two Universities
ne abolished. These remarks apply, ais,
ct to the Normal schools.
id Whilst we cordially endorse the wi
IL dom of that policy which extends to tt
r. children of the State the advantages
We free common school education, we +
ne spectfully submit that our present legi
SO lation in that respect is radically defe
so tive in theory, and in its practical working
ce is great wrong rather than OF benefit
I'd her citizens. The present rate of tax;
n ton for purposes of education and tt
Sc appropriations made for that purpo:
'lr amounts to the enormous sum OF 1878
al 900 annual y-greatly more than is n
cessary for carrying on the State 90
1g eminent. We suggest that the mistal
Ill in this matter has been this. The a
Id tempt has been made on an impoverishe
ge State, with all its industrial pursuits in
u deranged and constantly changing cond
OF ton, and all of its property values grea
or ly deprecated, to suddenly inaugurate
u. c1yotop, Of oOnouoO,, CoEnolo FILL