The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-07-05
- BuRKITr oONsIsrEi

Maj. Barksdale, we learn, in his
speech at the A. & NJ. College last
Wednesday, very severely CRITICS.
ed the last legislature for crippling
the State Institutions by withhold
ing su fficient appropriations.
Brother Burkitt, the chronic "tax-
payer" Ofthe Chickasaw Messenger
was a great friend to the "overtax-
ed masses" when il came 70 cutting
of $4,000 Of the appropriations to
the A. & NJ. College, but at the
saHse time we find him willing that
the should be burdened with some
$50, 900 (slQ.0QQ, more than the A.
4 II. College gets in AID 10 run the
stlte University, which educates
fewer students than the A. & NJ.
College. Where do we find Mr..
Burkitt when a chance is given
him TO relieve this same tax-rid-
den people Of $4,000 by reducing
the interest on the Chickasaw
school fund.- He voted against this
reduction, simply because it gives
his county and twenty others the
sixteen thousand dollars, to the
exclusion Of the other counties of
hst2<,e.
4 SHOWS friendship for the
/ pea 3 with q vengeancel When a
maiHEants Office lis q mighty easy
matter to open up his great big
heart, and love the people very in
tensely.
The truth is, those acts Of Mr..
Bun kilt display an Inconsistency
that he cannot explain.-New
Saath.
The editor Of tho MEssEN0ER may
be inconsistent in many things and
possibly on the school question.
Indeed, if the statements made by
the author Of the above article were
true we would have to admit the
charge. without palliation or ex.
cuse. But neither Of the charges
upSn which it is sought to convict
US II Inconsistency have any foun.
dation in fact.
] Egsry Journalist in Mississippi
- hid know MISUNDERSTANDING
was reached in 1850, between the
friends OF the University and the
4. L N. College to the effect that
the debt claimed TO be due the for.
mer from the State, was recognized
and fixed at the sum Of t544, 900 on
which the State was to pay 6 per
cent. interest per annum, and no
appropriation has been made by
the Legislature for the University
since that date.
Il may be 3 matter Of surprise to
our cotemporary. who we believe
is graduate Of the A. & If. to
learn that the friends of his Alma
Mater we're conspicuous in making
this settlement, which he evidently
regards as unjust, and that the
University people in turn voted
the A. & NJ. $3.50 to help them
out, at that same session of the Leg
islature, but the official records of
the proceedings of the Legislature
of 1880, will verify this statement.
The settlement was made whether
just or unjust and the question was
res adiHdicata so far as the Legisla-
ture was concerned, and we could
not have re-opened it, If we had de-
sired TO do so. By what authority
our critic asserts our ciilingness that
the University should have s34, 900
or any other amount per annum
(sinee We have not expressed an
opinion on the subiect,) we are un-
able to conjecture. But perhaps
he jumped at the conclusion with
ont aninvestigation, Just as he must
have done when he asserts that we
voted against the reduction on the
Chickasaw school fund interest.
If our young friend will procure
copy Of House Journal 1888, and
examine it, he will find our vote
recorded three several times in
favor Of the reduction and not a
single time against it, and this
should teach him how totally unre-
liable it is to take the statements Of
a hovling mob Of treasury cOrmo-
rants, who are ever ready to mis-;
represent those, whose convictions
Of public duty antagonize their
personal interests, instead of re-
lying on the record. ~