The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-28
TUE QUESTION OF TAXATION.
From the fernando Press. ]


From the fernando Press.l
Before and during the session of the
Circuit Court. we have heard expressions
from taxpayers, both o. whom voted for
and against Ames, saying that they pay
TOO much taxes without representation,
and they were for resisting the payment
Of taxes hereafter by all legal means
PAY NO TAXES.
From the Crystal Springs Monitor.l
In support of the abomiDable system in
augurated by the Militia bill This is the
way to defeat the scheme of plumber and
oppression devised by our enemies. Let
us tight it out, foot by foot, inch by inch,
on this line. Let Us be firm and deter
mined; but peaceable. Let US keep our
money in our pockets and appeal to the
courts. Surely we can do this. Are we
IN earnest in our opposition TO this high
handed measure If We are, let us act in
manner becoming the emergency. We
must, in this thing, go together, stick
together, succeed together, or fail togeth-
er. Our taxes are already uncomfortable
-peaceable resistance to the impO-
sition of more is an absolute necessity.
CARRY OUT THE DETERMINATION TO THE
LETTER.
From the Chickasaw MessengerJ
The CLARION from which the above is
copied, may well ask the question ''have
We republican form OF government ?"
tor 1t does seem to US that We are as
completely controlled by a zone man"
power as any people on earth. Ames as
sumes to control the judiciary, and if
decisions are not made in accordance
with his private views the officers assum-
ing such independence are summary dis
missed from office as in cases of Chancel-
Tor brennan and Peyton. x = < x x
When we take all these things into
consideration, we declare in favor of the
resolution adopted by our brethen in
Washington county last year.
We sincerely hope our people will, with
one accord, firmly and resolutely deter
mine that they will not henceforth pay a
dollar tax to support such an infamous
government, and carry out that determine
ton to the letter.
FIGHT IT OUT ON THAT LINE.
From the Durant Advertlserl
One man cannot successfully resist the
collection of taxes, nor can dozen men
do so, but, when the property owners of
whole State resolve to pay no more,
they have but to adhere to that resolution
and the matter is accomplished. If no
one pays, the officers can only advertise
the sale of property, and if there are, on
the day of sale, no private bidders-which
there will not be unless our own citizens
do the bidding-the State will become the
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still holds possession. If we are not
wofully mistaken, no man in Mississippi
has ever been ousted from possession of
lands acquired under ordinary purchase,
when confronted in the Courts by nothing
more than a simple tax title; hence there
is little or no danger to be apprehended
from the mere fact that private lands have
reverted to the State" tor non-payment
of taxes.
If the care and attention be the same
FORFEITED lands yield the same amount
of crops and the income therefrom is as
great as before the so-called forfeiture,
with the advantage that lands CLAIMED
by the State are not taxable therefore
the owner has but to remain in possession,
and to continue sowing and reaping, and
useing and enjoying the whole proceeds
of the crops, just the same as if the
State didn't claim foot of land in the
world.
By this method our people have it in
their power to starve out the tax-eaters,
for, if we pay no tax, there will be no
tax for them to eat, and in that event
they must either starve or hunt up anoth-
er and richer larder. With this view let
us inscribe upon our banners "No more
tax to tax eaters" make it apply to the
tax of 1875, and go forward with full
determination ''to fight it out on that line"
during the coming canvass elf it takes all
summer"
THE LAST RESORT.
From the Kinds County Gazette.l
The jackson CLARION and the Vicks-
burg Herald call HALT in the matter of
taxpaying. They contend that there is
no obligation resting upon the people of
Mississippi to pay one cent of taxes
for the maintenance of Ames, his thiev-
ing rings, and their infamous usurpa-
tions =
1t matters not what our Individual
opinions on this subject may be, but we
are quite certain that the taxpayers of
the second district of Kinds county have
fully made up their minds to pay no
more taxes, either on State or county
account, until the work of plumber ceases
until the forms of republican govern
ment are restored to them-until they
enjoy the rights and privileges and some
of the conveniences to which the people
of county are supposed to be entitled.
In word, they have submitted to lgno-
rance and incompetency in public Office,
to plumber and robbery, to a tax almost