The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-04-28
General or Separate.
IFriars Point Gazette.l

WIN tho NlckSOurg Herald at
one end, the Memphis Appeal at
the other, and the Greenville Times
with many correspondents in the
middle, advocating one general
Levee District for the Yazoo- Mis-
sissippi Delta, we are almost be-
wildered; and feel lost in wonder
and amazement with the arsu-
ments. the persuasiveness of these
separate scribes.
The Herald says it ais meeting
with hearty and we may say uni
yersal endorsement in the Delta.
We are informed that many who
opposed the plan last summer are
now heartily ia favor of it.n This
is big boom! We wonder where
the gentleman has been and who
he has seen or heard FRONT He
says it ais the wise, prudent and
economical thing to do.n Where
did he get his information This
will do very we'll for the lower
District but not for that of the up
per half of the Delta. 1t would be
the most unwise, imprudent, m-
economical thing to do, unless at
a permanently fixed ad valorem
rate of taxation on any all class
es of property Of about so per
cent less than the rate for Levee
District No. 2. In other words
the levee in the upper District can
be constructed on the new; and
after construction be kept in re-
pair for about one-half of what it
will take to do the same work In
Levec District No. ?.
/ We have had a general Levee
District once before when the con.
nection with the Levee District
was the main cause of straddling
the heavy liquidating debt on our
shoulders which we have but re-
Gently paid off; and in addition,
by piece of adroitness in legisla-
ton forced us to pay the Emmett
Bank debt, for work done by Issa-
quena in her county capacity. The
evidence of SO much sharpness,
sufficient Justification for the up
per District to form itself-with
the assistance of all those counties
subject to overflow from its waters
into a separate Levee District.
The levecs of Louisiana--and
they have had more experience
than we have had-is in separate
Levee Districts.
The system adopted by the U.
s. Engineers, which the Herald re-
ferred to; is, to cut up the district
into separate management - one
head at Memphis and one at Vicks.
burg. This is IA case in point, for
the Yazoo bottom. The govern
ment however does not undertake
the full charge of the leyees. They
propose to act with the civil au-
thorities-in their separate dis.
tricts as they have done during
the past winter on tho Yaz0o-Mis.
sissippi front.
What object or what point OF
business economy win be served
by one grand Levee District, one
rich, powerful Ievee District, for
the whole bottom. The oneness
does no amount to anything, and
the grandeur, the riches and pow
er of the thing are suggestive Of
extravaganza. The fact that al
this oneness, grandeur, rich, pow
erful, and other empty adjectivcs
and similar able argument are but
o blind to lead us into family rela
tions with an expensive neighbor
Big things sometimes come te
| grief because the men who WORK
them feel too big for their boots
Large plantations as a rule do mo-
make as much money in proper
ton to smaller ones-the obvious
reason being-that the expense II
larger IN propOrtlOn 10 tnelr ui
mensions.
With a separate district in ful
operation and all the interested
counties reprented by u Leve'
Board and with good and true mel
in their proper places; we cal
guarantee full and proper protec
ton against overflow in all thes'
counties subject to overflow from
the front of DeSoto, Tunica ant
Coahoma at greatly less cost to us
: than If connected in one general
grand, rich and powerful Distrlc
for the whole bottom.
The Clarion of the 18th has
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