The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-09-20

printer.
In 1871, as above shown, they CAV
E S4S.992 SO to common schools, ans
/ $l27.s4s II, or nearly thrice as much
TO support q partisan newspaper
In 1872, they gave S72,0O1 O9 fol
common schools, and nearly as much
( s69.791 OF. to the same newspaper.
In 1873. they gave s97. 800 S2to com
mon schools. and two-thirds as much
s74,704 o., to the same paper.
In 1874. they gave $4,000 to CON-
mon schools, and three and half times
as much, or s75, ,23S to this same news
paper.
In 1875, they gave s11S,690 Il to
common schools, and nearly half as
much, viz: $4,000, to their partisan
press, and taking the whole period OF
Radical rule, they gave out OF the
State Treasury, s451,2 PA 90 to sustain
a partisan newspaper, and 1851, ,S4S 70
to common schools-being SIS, 100 IS
more for their press than for schools.
The amount expended by them. over
and above what was necessary, in al
the departments of the State govern
ment, would, out of the State Treas
ury alone, without any county levies,
have furnished common schools, for
months in the year, to every child in
the State.
To show how hypocritical is tbeir
claim to being the friends of common
schools, we have only to look, in sd
dition to the foregoing, at the waste
they committed on moneys collected
for common school purposes.
Let us see how much of each dollar,
collected for common schools, ever
reached, in school benefits, the chill
dren of the State.
The assessor got cents for assess
ing the dollar. He was also paid for
assessing insolvencies and the large
number of polls who never paid their
tax. This could not have been less
than l cent more.
The collector got cents for collect
ing it. The county Treasurer got 2
cents for disbursing it. All this re-
duces the dollar to 85 cents. But this
is not all the deductions each dollar
collected for school purposes, was
subject to. There were the salary OF
State Superintendent, and his office ex-
penses--over $4,000 in one year. There
was, also, an enormous salary to each
County Superintendent, amounting, in
the aggregate throughout the State, to
S49, $50, to which add the $4,000 above
named, and it makes $67,650, being
more than the average annual appro.
priatiOn from the State Treasury fol
school purposes. This charge could
not have amounted to less than Il
cents more on eachs dollar. This re-
duces the dollar to 20 cents. But there
are still further deductions. The dol
lar was almost always paid to the col
lector in money. 1t was always paid
out in warrants. These warrants did
not average over so cents on the dollar
Here is l-5 more to be deducted, OF
IA cents. The dollar is now reduced
to 56 cents. But still there are Other
deductions. The teachers salaries
were fixed at enormously high figures
more than double what is now allowed
So the teachers were paid two dollar;
where they ought to have been pait
one, or, in other words, the children
of the State only got tuition for one
half the time they were legitimately
entitled to for the money collected
This halves the 56 cents remaining
and reduces tha del--s collected. from
the tax payer, to % cents in beIefit e
the children of the State.
That is the way in which the Radica
party fostered and encouraged schools
They collected thousands of dollar!
from our impoverished people, and yef
by waste and extravaganza, and Il
pamper and enrich worthless Radica
officials, they 50 managed that ONLY
twenty-eight cents on each dollar col
lected was ever applied to the benef
of the children of the State; less, il
fact, than one-fourth of the amour
they lavished on a partizan press, KEEP
up through the public treasury, to ad
vance the aims and purposes of tn,
Radical party.
But this is not all, They spent fo
purposes other than common schools
and in their wasteful extravaganza
$769, ,451 81 of the fund arising from
retailers license, fines, etc., dedicatet
by the Constellation 10 common schools
This large sum, actually paid in 70
the common school fund, the Radical
have wasted, and it is now irreyocabl,
2 lost to the children of the State.
l might pursue the subject further
but it would make this communicate
too long.
E 1 will add, however, some statistic
taken from Campaign Document Nc
9 4, issued by the Executive State Con
mittee in 1875.
B. that paper it is shown, that ~ ~
. ACTUAL loss in the assessed value of prc
perty in the State, from 1871 to 1877
f was
! On Personally y......... $12, Sc;
On Land. 20 9,9l9,5-
On both together. ........ $42,028,1 i
3 And that more than q per cent.
the lands of the State, amounting |
j.. 6, 100000 acres, had, under the mere
less system of taxation of the Radio
party. been forfeited to the State.
: Are the people of Mississippi pr
: pared to restore this party to powe
God Forbid!
9 CIrIzE
September 11th, 1876.
NoTE.-By the Auditors report +
. 1911 e.