The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-04-13
Reduction of Taxes.

Eds. CLARION: The people are pleased to
see the many wise suggestions OF HE
CLARION to the Legislature In reference TO
the needed legislation now pehdlhg before
that body. In none of those questions 90
tho neonle now feel so much interest as In
the reduction of the taxes. Ihat the AK
navers of the State are now clamorous for
i,roner reduction of the taxes, none can
doubt 1t is equally true that, II the Legs
lature shall adjourn without first making
the reduction of taxes which the taxpayers
now demand. fearful reckoning will be
had with our Legislators on thelr return 10
their constituency.
It will be no sufficient answer to this de-
mand of the taxpayers, for our Legislators
TO saw that there are heavy liabilities resting
upon the State, and that those liabilities
cannot be promptly met and discharged
under any considerably reduced rate OF tax
alton. Il this proposition were even true,
that constitutes no good reason why the
taxes should not be reduced. These liabil-
tiles were mainly incurred by the SWindling
and thieving machine set in operation by
the Ames administration; and whilst they,
in the main, may constitute legal liabilities
that ought, some time, to be paid, no good
reason can be assigned why those liabilities
NAV not be funded and their payment post
poned until such a time as they can be met
without utter ruin TO the State and people.
True atesmanship never sanctions un-
people that suStainS the Government.
Craftsmanship should always control the
exercise of the taxing power, and the bur-
thens Of taxation should never be so in
creased as to produce prostration of enter
prise or ruin to the people. That this COM
mOnWealth was Overburthened with the
taxes and other wrongs imposed by the
Ames administration, was fully proved by
the extraordinary upheaVing OF the masses
at the last fall election. Longer endurance
became, seemingly, impossible, and "for-
brarance ceased to be Il virtue" in our peO-
pie; and being pressed by necessity on one
hand and by patriotism on the other, the
taxpayers made the mighty effort that
made it possible for relief to come. Will
the trusted Legislators now suffer that
chance of deliverance to pass without con-
summating the expected and promised de-
liverance? Surely they will not. That the
| Legislature has done well so far as it has
gone, is admitted, ard their acts constitute
the glory politically of all true patriots of
this State and elsewhere. But if that body
should now stop, or even Suspend its good
work before proper reduction of the taxes
is consummated, the disappointment and
modification of the people will be indie
Scribable-
These suggestions, Mr.. Editor, and the
feelil gs here manifested (if, indeed, any
feelings be indicated) in the opinion of
your correspondent fully accord with
the views and feelings of the people of this
pare of the State and whether they shall be
considered or unheeded by our legislators,
they are destined to enter largely into our
future, as a people,
Having been lifelong Democrat and
constant advocate OF the strctest ecoromy
in the administration of our governments
State and National, am always the subject
of distress. whenever see any adminstra-
ton of the government, than that which is
in accord with the StrictpSt economy But
my modification is mixed with contempt at
seeing The late effort OF the wreckers. who
have brought disgrace and ruin upon this
commonwealth, to fix upon the great Dem
oeratie and Conservative party, the crimes
with which they, the wreckers, stand con
victed before the world. In these remarks.
allusion is made, in part, to the proceedings,
as published, of the late Amcs- Norton
Cardozo Convention, which met at jackson.
CHICKASAW