Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-12
LAYING IT ON rHE LOW rAxERs.


Columbia Herald (high tax: The
1908 bill has passed the legislature.
We did not favor it, for it lad iea-
lures we objected to. We were
pledged to oppose any settlement
making coupons receivable for taxes,
and we could not sustain the 1908 on
that account We also thought that
a better settlement might be obtained.
Who are to blame that a better set
Element was not NADER !.
The low tax men alone are responsi-
Bile for the election Of a republican
legislature. Low tax democrats
voted for the 1908 as well as state
credit democrats.
THE DEED is DONE.
Dyersburg Gazette (high tax: The
1908 bill, with coupons for taxes, is
now a law. No one ever dreamed of
such a settlement. 1t is an outrage
that should damn to everlasting polit-
ical obscurity democrats who voted
fer it. They have meanly betrayed
the people who elected them. They
have violated the solemn pledge made
in the democratic platform, which de-
clared positively that coupons should
not be receivable for taxes. And
now, in the face of that, they have at
tempted to shaekle the people and
hand them over body and soul over to
the remorseless bondholder for ninety.
nine years. How can any sane man
ever hope that Tennesseeans will
again have faith in the declarations
OF a democratic platform? This bill
Of iniquity has split the democratic
party of our state wide open, and to-
day fluids a larger number of readjust-
ers in Tennessee than was ever seen
in Virginia, 1t sends another Ma
hone to the United States senate to
fill the chair of Isham G.. Harris
closes the public schoOls-Gcpreciates
real estate and impoyerishes our citi-
zens. But the END is not yet.
IT Is FIXED.
Knoxville Dispatch (high taxi: The
matter is now disposed of, and per-
manently. No amount Of dissatisfac-
ton, however strongly expressed, can
now undo what has been done. The
act of final settlement cannot be re-
pealed. Let US understand this, and
govern ourselves accordingly.
1T is A FINALITY.
Chattanooga Times (high taxi: Thus
it will be seen that out of ten dailies
but two are disposed to make serious
objections to treating the settlement
as a inality, while one groans aloud,
and says the people must pay, but they
will be reveDged on the authors of the
outrage.
This, we take it, is clearly a stronger
Endorsement than the state credit men
in the legislature had a right to expect;
and it portcnds that before the next
presidential year comes there will be
the plainest kind Of sailing and parties
will be in their old boats, or pretty
much so. Maybe we shall be annoyed
and disgraced with the reopening of
the question by a future legislature,
but that does not look likely.
BOOMING WITH JOY.
Gallatin Examiner thigh tax: The
intelligence was received with the
greatest delight. The faces Of our
citizens fairly beamed with joy. Men
grasped each others hands in con-
graduation. The long night has
passed and the morning light has
broken upon Tennessee.
SWALLOWS THE CROW.
Pulaski Citizen (high taxi: This
the state debt and takes it out
of politics. For that reason we are
glad, but we cannot get enthusiastic
over the terms Of settlement. We
believe 50-4 was better, and we are
sorry u people did not take advan-
tage of it. Then the bondholders
commenced to grasp and now they
have a better settlement than they
asked before. How silly we were!
This 1908 settlement is none of our
choosing, and we cannot get into a
over it and do not intend to.
THE INSIGNIA OF DIsHoNoR.
Kenton Courier (high tax 1903
coupons good for taxes, SO years.
Big reYenue-income xes-crippled
school system-immigration retarded
emigration increased, all for the
sake Of the little coupon becoming the
insignia ofthe states dishonor. The
mind stands parslyzed before
The stupendous folly.