The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-15
give us a Eaip Assessment Of
the Lands.

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to them that will be accepted as fair
and accurate by the thousands of cap
italists in the East and in Europe
who are now carefully scanning the
statistics ofsthe South; and that you
are writing your State up or down
for the next four years unless the
Legislature of 1884 sees fit to order
new assessment. Money is going
where lands are advancing in value,
aud if by short-sighted policy you
-undervalue your lands as much as
usual in listing them with the Asses
sor, and the total for your county IN
1873 does not greatly exceed in value
the present aggregate, you will have
only yourselves to blame ii money
lenders and progressive men take you
at your figures, and seek investments
for their money in Texas, Florida
Arkansas and Dakota.
Many of you who are engaged IN
cotton culture are obliged to obtain
advances in money or supplies, hence
it is all important to you to cheaper
money, or in other words reduce the
rate of interest. This you have learn
ed by experience cannot be done by
Legislative enactment,for there never
yas law framed to reduce the rate
Of interest or to punish usury that
could not be easily evaded, and there
never will be. Such laws only serve
to Cypress the needy borrower and
add TO the revenues Of the lender, for
if the money is not sent out OF the
State it will like all other commodi-
ties or values be governed by the
immutable laws of supply and demand
and obtain rates of hire commensurate
with the risks of the lender. Trans
actions will be made without dislnter-
ested witnesses ;usury will be deduced
from the amount turned over to the |
man who gives the note, while the
paper will only bearupon Its lace the
legal charge; and two dollars worth
of security will be required for every
dollar loaned; and then again, only |
those men will be able to borrow
money who can be depended upon to
REGARD the "true inwardness" of the
transaction as a secret Of honor-a
matter as sacred in its character as
gamblers deem their debts at cards.
This being the case,it is all important
to our people who can offer no other
securities to the money lenders than
liens on their lands, to demonstrate
to the world that their lands .
are valuable, and this can only
be accomplished by such reasonable
and fair assessments as will encourage .
capital to seek investment in our
county.
A little travel will assure any land
holder that capital is seeking invest
ment where lands are high, and steer
ing clear of every region where the
men who own the lands decry them.
1t is all nonsense to expect a money |
lender to accept lein upon your
farm at ten or fifteen dollars an acre |
when you assess it at three or five
Such men are not in the habit Of Civ
mo the benefit of the doubt to their |
customers, nor are they willing to
invest their money where the lalio
roll shows prices to be Sat dead
stand,'' and that stand, the lowest on
the continent for fertile and improved |
lands. 1900,
The land roll of Mississippi in 1883
will be more closely scanned than
any of its predecessors, and we DO
hope that in every county the yalua-
ton will vastly exceed that OF the
last assessment, thus afording the |
outside world something like a fair
idea of the count'ys aggregate wealth,
enterprise, advancement and respon-
sibility, while it will at the same time
enable the Board of Supervisors to
raise the usual amount of revenue |
for county and school purposes, upon
greatly reduced per centage OF tax
alton.
THE two Senators Ferry, have had !