Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-05-04
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our public spirited ladies, a year or
Two since, the cemetery was much
improved and beautified in appear
ance. Marshal Chisholm about that
time mentioned to us that he was
determined to collect the amounts
due for cemetery lots and would
take legal steps to do SO If necessary.
Counsel was spoken to in this behalf,
as we are informed, but the names
of the parties indebted or the docu-
ments upon which suits could be
based, were not furnished, and thus
the matter dropped, and we suppose
still rests in IA state of inneuous dis
suetude. Perhaps the Marshal,
perhaps the Mayor, or whoever is in
charge of this property and the fund
arising from it will make an
exhibit, but so far as we know or
any citizen that we know of knows,
the amounts collected and the
amounts due are matters Of merest
surmise, a sealed book so far as the
people of the town are concerned
1t was a grave omission in the
charter of the town, that an annual
report of all fines, privileges, taxes
and other moneys coming into the
treasury or into the hands Of the
officers of the corporation, together
with a particularized statement of all
moneys expended, was not required
to be made. We presume that few
corporations are to be found in this
p~redicalaent, and fewer still whose
officials neglect or refuse to make
such reports when called upon pub
licly to do so.
Neither the honesty nor the aolhty
of any administration is questioned
by calling for such a report. In the
National government, IN all of the
State governments, in all properly
organized and conducted inferior
governments the practice is univer-
sal; without it responsibility to the
people is at an end.
Our correspondent inquiries what
the several taxes amount to. We
have no exact knowledge but from
the corporation rolls in the Sherif's
office seven and a half mills would
yield about $3.50. The street tax
probably brings in $3.50.
We are i~nterrogated as to the
expenditure of this money!
Gulivgr in his travels once visited
a famous academy which was filed
with many experimental pbilos-
ophers. The first one he saw be
relates, chad been eight years en-
ployed upon a project for extracting
sunbeams out of cuculubers, which
were to be put in walls Dramatically
sealed, and let out to warn the air
in raw, inclement summers. He
said he did not doubt in eight years
more that he should be able to
supply the governors gardens with
with sunshine at reasonable rates.
For years we have been trying to
extract one particular sunbeam out
of our corporation cucumber: Other
experimentors have tried and failed
until the conviction with some
people amounts to certainty that we
have not a cucumber at all but a
fungus or kind of sct-fast to deal
with Requests, calls, demands for
financial reports from the authorities
of this corporation for the informa-
ton of its citizens have been con-
temptuously ignored. 1t may be
that there was nothing to report and
how TO report it puzzled oul
municipal alumni, or it may be thai
a stale and ancient threat to have
them investigated by the grant
jury, angered these very silen.
guardians of the public weal-how
ever it may be-from the Mayo
, down discreet silence has beer
preserved.
Nevertheless, unlike CULVER
philosopher we do not expect t.
experiment for years longer. Tit
required information has been her
metlcally sealed so far as officia
reports go but the walls, we predic
are about to be opened and the nois'
thereof will rattle the windows from
Buzzard roost to Huckleberry farm
When the cool and in%vigorating day
Of July and August get well inside
The corporation u city fathers viii
, throw off their busters and make t.
the people such a report that perad
} venture they will never wan.
another: Though the reverberation'
Of rams horns overthrow the walls 0.
Jericho, and We remember that oul