The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-04-26

The ring organs throughout the
State seem to Be keeping up the
war they inaueurated against the
late Legislature since the adjourn
ment. and especially are they Sc
we're in their criticisms OF certain
prominent members Of that body.
Somebody once said il you throw
a stone into a crowd Of dogs, the
one that is struck is sure TO howl
From the amount Of vitnFeration
and abuse heaped upon the Legis-
lature, il would seem that some Of
these newspaper critics, their I'M
cles, cousins or aunts, must have
received some pretty severe blows
at the hands OF the lately assembled
Lawmakers of Mississippi. 1t is
true that these gentlemen have, in
the past. been successful in shaping
the legislation Of this State, and to
their efforts are we largely indebt-
ed for the enormous debt heaped
upon the Taxpayers, during the
past SIX years. 1t has been a Gus
tom OF theirs TO demand and re-
ceive whatever amount of money
they wished from the public treas
ury. but when they found that,
with all their aattery, caiolery and
ridicule, aided by the most power
iul lobby, they could not control
the wool hat boys in the late Leg
islature, their wrath knew no
bounds, and from that time forth
they have continued to pour out
the walls Of their wrath upon the
defenseless heads Of the luckloss
legislators who dared oppose their
little schemes. They may eontin-
ne to shoot their hot shot into the
legislative branch of the govern
ment if they choose. Nobody
cares. The people are fast becom-
ing posted as to what that body
did, or tried to do; and the horny
handed yeomany Of the State, the
men who make the corn and the
cotton, approve it. They elected
their representatives with a full
knowledge that the State debt was
unnessarily increasing year by
year, and they demanded of them
that they reduce expenses by lopp-
ing off useless and extravagaut APP
preparations. True to their pledges,
tho representatives of the wool hat
BOYS passed the bill requiring high
State officials to support their own
families. hire their own servants il
they had to have them, aud pay
for the washing of their dirty linen
ont Of their salaries, instead Oftak-
ing the money out of the peoples
treasury without authority of law,
as they had been doing heretofore,
It was the representatives of the
wool hat boys who passed the fee
and salary bill. which, had it not
been lost, mislaid, strayed OF
stolen, after it was sent from the
House, would have saved the tax
payers Of the State S25, goo a year.
1t was the representatives of the
wool hat boys who reduced the ap.
preparations to the bifalutin col
leges, run in the interest ofthe rich
and well-born, $4,000 per annum
and they served notice on the mum
ifcently paid faculties at those in.
situations, that more solid work
and less red tape was necessary
for their healthy existence in the
future. 1t was the Representatives
ofthe wool hat boys who passed
the bill authorizing grand juries
to refer certain misdemeanors
back to the Justice of the Peace in
whose jurisdiction the offense was
committed, instead Of indicting the
parties and taking up the time Of
our Circuit Courts with little petty
cases, to the great annoyance and
expense of the people. 1t was the
representatives, of the wool hat
boys who passed the bin allowing
eight Circuit and Chsncery Judges
TO stay at home with their wives
and children, who had been annu-
ally drawing $4,000 each, and en-
joying the dignity Of their exalted
positions. Ia short, il was the
reuFesentatives of the uoal has