Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-09-20

wHoxvER will this morning carefully
read the report of the grand jury will be
filled with indignation that, after all the
exposures that have been made by the
public press. men can be found weak
enough to believe that they can with i'm
punity do with the money of Shelby
county what they could not do with the
funds of commercial firm without en-
countering the ,ourts and probably the
penitentiaIy. I story is one that is
disgraceful to the County Court. 1t
proves, too, the necessity for change in
system Of county government that is
evidently irresponsible, imbecile and rot
ten. The affairs of the county are man
aged in loose, shsmbling, rickety sort OF
way, without other purpose than taking
things as they come and meeting all de-
mands, if not in cash, in promises to pay
that afford profit to shavers
and increases q debt for which the county
has very little TO show. By contrast vith
the superb management OF the Taxing
Districts government affairs that of the
county is reckless, and if it were not in
famous would be absurd. Low-auarter
shoes for prisoners is form of taxing that,
il continuously and generally INDUCED iu,
would soon reduce the county to the same
verge Of bankruptcy as Memphis reached
when governed by ignorance and Hit
eracy. Fifty and go per cent. more than
the ordinary selling price of goods is too
much for the county to pay for political
influence that Is not worth the words that
express it. But it is this straining after
political influence, this fictitious valuation
of men who are wholly devoid of any
kind of influence, that has brought politics
into disgrace and made every politician
an object of suspicion, as if his purpose
was the theft of public treasures and the
robbery of the people. And that there
are some men who believe that this is the
ultimate of the politicians trade we have
had abundant proof. They think it nc
wrong to regard the public money as the
legitimate prize Of triumphant politics
parties, and that the public offices carry
aith them the right to loot the strong-box
of the people. But the day for this sort oi
politics has passed. Here in Memphis il
passed away with the establishment of the
Taxing District government, and it mus
not be permitted in Shelby county. The
law must be invoked for its suppression
and, il necessary, the taxpayers mus
come together and form en- association tC
press to prosecution the cases so plainly
indicated by the grand jury. 1t is an ont
rage too glRring TO be permitted to pass to
read that thirty prisoners we're borne on
the rolls Of the Work-House for week
after it was known they had escaped, at .
cost of 60 cents each per day Il
the county, and to have this sup
plemented by the information tina
the chairman of the County CoGr
ais not guided by system or order in hi
Nano management But the Who'll,
stosS is one that must be read to be com
pretended in all its enormity and petty
vilainy; il is storA Eat teens with enoT
mites that should bring the perpeTator
to speedy justice Political inf henc
should not be permitted to shield & an
and the politicians who attempt it sh~ Al
be marked by the people as quite as IN
worthy of their confidence as the men VIII
charge the county for provisions neve
consumed by its prisoners. The state
ments OF the grand jury are now wit
Acknowledgement Turner. and il he want
TO share the confdencs-0f the people an
AJAX them again fez their suffrages. he wi
gee to it that mo gsilty man escapes"