The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-10-13

that the increase would, under a faiI
government In time of peace, be 10 pei
cent. per annum, and make our calcula.
ton accordingly.
Commencing, as before stated, on the
basis OF the assessment of 1866. the year
after the war closed, we will see how the
case stands. Have we lost or gained by
these nine years of labor and toll ? In
/ 1866, the land assessment, excludir 2
school land, amounted TO s115, 321 ,29S.
There was no assessment of all personal
ty tilI 1870, and none accessible to me
TIL 1871. Though the years subsequent
to 1871 show a steady decrease in the
value of personality, / will assume there
was no decrease. before that time, and
that the personally in 1866 was worth as
much as it was in 1871, viz $40, 829, 908.
This added to the realty, makes Sl61,-
l51 ,2O7, as the total wealth of the State
in 1866.
In 1871 the total assessment of realty
and personality was $3.50, 900, 600, show
ing loss in FIVE years of S11, 151 ,2O7,
or about $4,000, 900 for each year.
These were years of peace, and the price
of cotton, during this entire period, was
double its ante belLlem value, when our
increase of wealth was twelve per cent per
annum There is no reason, but had
government, and high taxes, why this
increase should not have been kept up.
But put the increase at 10 per cent, and
the wealth of the State should have
been in 1871, s241, 1885, instead of
what it was, viz: $50, 900, 900; showing
loss, by bad government, of S91, 1885,
8O7, in five years, or over $4,000, 900 a
year.
The assessment of realty in 1871, was
$104, 136, 291, and there was no new as
sessment till 1875, and so we cannot show
the annual decrease in the value of real
ty, but We can take the four years together.
The assessment rolls for the year 1878
have not all been returned but we have
the rolls of fifty counties, situated in all
parts of the State, and the returns from
these counties show a decrease Of Is per
cent. in the land assessment for four
years. The same rate of decrease in the
land assessment in the remaining coun-
ties would make the land assessment
amount this year (1875) to $50, 401, 759,
or a loss in four years of S1S,734, 759.
Add to this TIE loss in land assessment
between 1866 and 1871, as follows:
Assessment of 1866 .$II5,321. 299
Assessment of 1871 ........ I04, l36, POI
1I.1S5,0OS
makes a total loss in land value of S29,-
9l9, $40 in four years.
The loss in value of personally is still
more marked, and as the assessment was
made each year after 1871, we can show
the annual decrease, and that it was
steady and never varying:
Assessment of personality, 1871 .$45 s2o, 9Os
Assessment of personally, 1872 1924, 440 |
Personally assessment of 1873 44,7lO345 !
Loss as compared with 1872 -. 5l4.095 /
Personally assessment of 1874 =. 443S3, 222 |
Loss as compared with 1873 327, l23 |
In 1875, we have assessment rolls of
personally for forty-four counties, show
ing a total loss in these counties of
s6, 838, $50, or "a per cent, making
in all about $33, 721 ,249. |
Loss in one year S10,661, 973, or a
total loss in four years of $12, 108, $50;
over One-fourth of our personal wealth in
four years.
Add now the total loss of land and
together:
Land. $29, 919. $40
Personally. II, $685. $50
Making grand total ...S42 .028,1
But this is not the real loss, great as it
IS. We have lost all we have made in
.hese nine years, in addition This, a
before shown, would have been undern-
good government, II per cent. per an
lum, but we will put it at 10 per cent,
20 as to be perfectly safe. This, as
wealth would be as follows:
Land assessment in 1866, SIS, 321,-
299.
Personal assessment IN 1866, assumed
20 be as great as in 1871,-$45, 829, 908.
Total wealth in 1866-S161 ISL POT.
Add 80 per cent, or 10 per cent. for
each of nine years, for increase, and we
nave S145, 036, 086, for the increase
making what our wealth should be in 1875
s306, 1877 1913. Instead of this it is only
Is follows:
Land assessment in 1875-s85, 4O1,-
759.
Personalty-S33, 721, 249.
Total-$l19, 123, 009.
Which deducted from what it should
De, as shown above, leaves $187 ,069,-
205, representing the cost in money to
The people of the State, of Radical mis-
rule, besides the enormous taxation
which we have paid.
The ten years which have elapsed
since the war, thoughin time of profound
peace, have been more devastating to
The people than war. The United States,
as a whole, increased their wealth nine
per cent. annually. during the last de-
;ade, yet we have constantly refrigerated.
France recovered all her lost wealth in
i've years, after the most devastating of
all wars. We, at the end of ten years,
ire as if war had never ceased.
Lord Macaulay, History of England,
Vol. 1, Chap. 3, in contemplating and
on the improved condition
IF England after long years of misrule
and intestine connections, makes use of
The following language:
In every experimental science there
s tendency toward perfection. In ev-
cry human being there is wish to anne
iorate his own condition. These two !,
principles have often sufficed, even when