The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-01-08

tuuo anu imperfect, owing
20 the 'mmensity of business requiring
attention. The Legislature was. com.
peheu TO act at once without standing
upon the order of doing so. Time and
experience have revealed whatever errors
may have been admitted and the nres.
emit body will address itself to the work
OF remedying them and of supplying
omissions. 80 eg
THE REVENUE SYSTEM
is OF first Importance. With taxes i'm.
mensely reduced, it has produced means
ample to maintain the credit of the
State keep its warrants at par and meet
all ITS liabilities as they have accrued.
Nevertheless, the laws are complex and
defective in many essentials, and require
thorough overhauling.
.l'4Aoo lul THE LIEN LAW a4afa9
was originally passed for the benefit Of
the agricultural and producing class
which is now clamoring loudest for its
repeal, and they are presumed to be bet
ter informed than others in regard to its
effect. The Legisla ture is largely com
posed of members directly engaged in
agriculture, and will be prepared to
adopt such legislation as will be needed
either to repeal the law, or to limit its
avistonoa
7aqW THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
will require material change, rendering
it more economical by limiting the schools
to the fundamental branches of learning,
reading, writing and arithmetic, and at
the same time diffusing as widely as
possible among all classes, the benefits of
the system. o6 0is
THE SUFFRAGE LAWS,
shou be amended so as to require the
payment of a poll tax as the qualif-
cation of voter, and the proofs of resi-
dence and the possession of that qualif-
cation to be the receipt for the payment
in the previous year to that in which he
offers to vote. Doubtless by reference to
the Pennsylvania and Georgia laws on
this subject, our Legislators can obtain
excellent models for this reform.
DELINQUENT TAX LANDS. fa,.
what to do with them, and how to make
them source of revenue to the State,
has long been a subject of serious con-
sideration. These lands are an incum-
brance, and the Legislature will doubt
less devise some measure free from the
errors of the past to rid the State of the
incumbrance without putting premium
upon delinquencies in the payment of
taxes. hue sA5e ritaGlea8 1f
THE JURY SYSTEM,
it has been suggested, is exceedingly de-
fective. One of our contemporaries
learned in the law, has gone so far as to
say that it is ga reproach to the nine
teenth century," That branch Of the
hoary as it is with vices, as we'll as with
age, as now organized and conducted, is
an inquisition worthy of the dark ages !;
and is the convenient instrument of
wrong, malice and Observation-Disclosures.
Its victims are struck in the dark with no
power of resistance until after the mis-
chief has been wrought. ro~ "saft
- I'd - f.scon.o. .r,ors slaate So
of every descriptions" says the platform
upon which the members of the Legisla-
ture were elected, "are supervisable by
State authority, and subordinate to State
legislation, in the interest and for the
protection of the people," The Legisla-
ture will no doubt take care to carry into
execution this important feature of the
Democratic creed. It accords entirely
with the decision of the highest judicial
tribunal of the land. fe IAb
THE PUBLIC ROAD
laws are either defective or badly en-
forced. The roads are in a wretched
condition; in many places cut up into
guilies and impossible ravines, and are
growing from bad to worse. s m
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS }
One is needed to dispense with
annual elections, and making the cleo
tons of State and county officers conform
to the time fixed by Congress for electing
members to that body. It is probable
that the contemplated change in the law
of suffrage, making the payment OF
poll-tax an essential condition of voting,