The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-23
rAXATIoN AND MISREPRESEN.
TATI0N.


Very few of our citizens, outside
ni the limits of the city of Canton,
'nd, we may add, not many within
is limits, will see the list of dclin
siucnt lands published in the Cen
trial Republican, the :. official jour
n,al," So called, for this Chanccry
District; so we will tell them that
snch Journal proposes TO exist,
AMI has managed by dint of har'l
scraping to pdblish list of delin-
qucnt lands, advertised by the shcr-
~, 10 bc sold for the taxes due
Thereon, if not paid by the first
Monday in February. This list COW
crs more space than one entire page
of the CANTON MAIL, and is q living
burning commentary on the terri
hIe times in which we live and the
burthens we bear. What we see in
the Central Republican is to be
seen in every like organ in the state.
1t is tale of woe and wrongs. 1t
il a tale of expressions and robbery
and this too, under the auspices
"f the boastful Republican party
the great party of progress and
moral ideas. O. God save the mark.
Never before in the history of this
state. were such things chroniclcd
as these immense delinquent tax
lists within the past four years, tina,
grow with each succeeding year,and
promise TO attain such proportions
ere long as to comprise all the tax
able property our people possess,
ending in confiscation. The sight
of these ghostly tax lists is enough
10 damn the Republican party in the
estimation of all honest men. We
trust that some of these lists will find
their way North, East and Vest. We
would need no more earnest, truth
ful advocate in our behalf than these
same, sclfevident evidences of the
ills VIC bear. And when they have
been read and pondered over, can
the masses i'm other sections be
blamed for giving us their sympa-
tiny? Is it aLy wonder that the Re-
publican party is lettering on the
verge of its grave +? Could it sur
vive and such burdens and opprcs-
sions be the outcrop of its existence?
The question arises why all these
things arc as they are? Who is to
blame The questions admit of
hut one answer. The law-making
power is TO blame This cannot
be denied. Well, if the law-maling
power is TO blame, why do the poo
pie elect such law making-power !?
That's the whole thing in a nut shell.
The people who bear the burdens and
who have property to tax, have no
voice in making the lawmaking pow
CIR. That prcrogative is accorded to
those who pay little or no taxes.
They elect the law-making power,
and thereby misreprcsent the bone
and strength, the capital of the coun-
try. Does any sane person believe
that those of our people, the bona
.fiie tax paying class, are such fools
Us 10 elect such men as Warner.
Stone, Spelman and Handy, just for
the fun of "payinS the fiddler while
they dancer" Docs any sane per-
son believe that those of our people
who own lands and other property
that is taxable, prefer to have five
illiteratc, incompetent men 1--WE have
nothing to say about color since
Shcridans Banditti order)for board
of supervisors, who make the levics
and appropriations of our county,
when they could get the soundest,
most economical men for the posi-
tom No. Then, how gross, how
patent the misrepresentation of our
people. Taxed and plundcrcd, and
if they dare cry out against it, they
are declared rebcllious, disloyal and
what not. We hail with rejoicing
the dawn of Il brighter day. The
death damp is upon the face of the
Republican party: it has lived and
revealed in its perverted power and
,II-sotten gains, and gorged, must
die of strangulation. Let its death
come, for then will be born TO US a
party in sympathy With our people,
in sympathy with our interests, and
the suffering and want, the tyrrany
and oppression that we now bear
will DC snpplantcd by a party of
equitable, honest and just rule ; our
waste Places will be made glad and
rejoicing will be in the hearts of all
our people.
Was ever a more ridiculous farce,