The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-12-29
TmE TNConHNG LEGIsLATURE-


One Of the bet Ihinkers IN a LegiAa-
.ure, which VIII be composed Of e able
men as hase'eyer sat in this State, u
Hon. q. W. Harper. one Of the mem
bers-eleet from Kinds county. As
journalist well posted in Mississippi at
fairs for thirty years. and especially Oh
servant Of Radical mal-edministratiOn
since the carpet-bagger era commenced
his opinions are especially worthy of con-
sideration. In reference to the incoming
LEGISLATURE and the solemn responsible
ties which it will have upon It's hands, he
saws in a late number Of his paper, the
GGsetts:
sincerely a. the new party, which viii
come into power Ia Kinds county and the
State OF Mississippi IN January next, may
desire 70 reduce taxation, It must not be
expected that IL can do 80 at once. The
debts, both county and State, contracted by
the Radical party are legal and valid claims,
and must be provided for All the ma
ehinery, county and State, established by
that party for squAndering the substance
Of the people, is still in operation, and
months and perhaps years nay intervene
before all can be dispensed with, and the
: State and county restored to honest, and
= just, and economical governments. The ex-
pensive school machinery goes on, and
must be paid for; the hundreds of useless
: officers continue IN Office, aHd draw theiI
!" pay; the contingent expenses of thu
, Governor go on; the high salaries canno
- be Instantly reduced; the vast appropria
tlons already made, without funds In tn
." treasures to meet them, are legal claims
tie great excess of Circuit Judges an
:. ChaneeIlors continues, and their salarie
must be met and the bridges authorized I
- be built by the outgoing Board Of Super
/. visors, must be paid for by the in-comin
~ party. It will doubtless be the policy Of tn
new party, pledged a. It Is TO retrenchmer
and reform, to save every dollar possible
TO reduce every channel Of expenditure
ne dispense with every unnecessary publ
OfiIcer-tO stop plain and fancy stealing
and to bring public affairs down to the oil
'.e standard, when public officers were u
all servants and not the masters of the peopl
IA and when government was a blessing an
not curse; but the work cannot be accom-
pished in day, week, a month, or SIT
n gle year Radcslism has built up 81 ,OOl
ne 900 State debt, which will have TO be pa
D. by taxation. IL has also built up count
4 debt in Kinds of about $3.50. 900, which mu
also be paid from the taxes. When the
al debts, entalled upon tho country by II
nj peoples ruthless enemies are paid, and Il
j. provisions already made by the Radicals f
squandering money, are swept away, 10
taxation may be resorted to. Until the
wa do not see that anything would be gain,
by reducing tie rates, unless 1t be consi
M cred good policy to allow the present i
a dsb.edness (5tate and county, to rema
ns permanent interest-bsarlng debts. Wi
the highest rates of taxation ever submit
ted to by an impoverished people, the Rad
srs Gals could not keep the State or county o
-. Of debt. The new party will show. as sot
as 1t obtains power over disbursements, tn
Ds- while II may not be able Immediately to pi
ON the debts already contracted, it can run Il
State and county on half the money that h
been consumed by the earpet-bagge
Upon this, the people may rely.