Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1912-10-10

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1906 cost 81. lS5 90.
1907 cost S5.33t 40.
: 1905 cost 81, 10000.
1909 cost 81. 2S5 .35.
1910 cost S,903.3j.
: County attorney one court this
year 1915 in 1910.
Total cost S9.57S.75, including
the county attorney salary up to
Sept. LIST.
1911 cost 50, l65 66.
Salary county attorney 1911,
81, 900.
Total Sl0,i65.66 Now this is
the first year that the county at
torney had full sway at the courts
and note the cost Of this court
please.
Now told you in my previous
dream that his salary was the
smallest item of cost OF the office.
The little old salary is not worth
kicking about. just analyze the
cost OF the circuit courts for the
past nine years and it looks to ne
like you would get your eyes open
1912 cost for one court 81 ,979 %
County attorneys salary $500
up TO Sept. LIST.
Total cost for / court 50. $40. 80
Now you see il we had held two
courts this year and the other
court would have cost as much as
this September court the total
cost OF this year would have been
$40, 159. 80. Now it looks to me
very much like the high cost Of
these court since we have had the
VALUABLE services OF the
county attorney would open the
eyes of the blind. The county
attorneys OF the State will cost
the taxpayers Of the State at
least SOLO, 900, that is to take the
cost of the office in all its ramiiics
lions. What say "ye" brethren?
Now get your "cusser" sharp
sned up and turn your batteries
loose on the courts of our country
and let our poor Board OF Super
visors rest awhile. | tell you what
| think We need more than any
hing else just now. We need d
county court and county Judge
With a back bone "a strong and
Is large as a white oak tree six
.eet ii diameter, solid aad clear
OF wind shakes and pecker-wood
noles. Then let him have as
nueh executive ability as all Of
lur circuit judges have had the
past 10 years all put together and
hen DO BUSINESS. Try all
.hese petty cases before this
county court. You could give
speedy trial and quick hearing
md not put the county to the en-
ormous expense of trying these
title old petty cases with 30 or
lOO witnesses drawing pay for
t@o weeks at a time.
As you know "kinky-headed
;oons" are often indicted for
shooting craps and always
nave 80 or 40 witnesses which al
ways cost the county $500 or $500
% dispose o. them, while a county
court with the right kind OF a
judge could settle all these little
petty cases with ten times less
cost to the county. We just can
not stand to pay so much tax and
and get back so little. Why in
this last court a lawyer told me
that the fines 10 be collected are
about S4O0 while the term of court
eos. the county over 5000. This
IS u fine paying business.
Now We want it distinctly I'M
derstood that we are appraised of
the fact that the Legislature of
1906 increased the jury fees from
81 TO 500 per day and mileage,
and or the further fact that the
Legislature OF 1908 increased the
jury fees from $3.50 to 50 per day
and mileage, but this cuts a very
small hgure in the total costs of
our courts. This amounts to
only at out $50 per day additional
cost during court, so if the court
holds II days it would only be
about $500. You can see.readily
that the average costs of the
courts for the two years of 1908
and 1909 when the jury fees were
81 per day and mileage, just like
they are now is only So, 157 81.
Now take the year 1911, the first
year the county attorney had full
swing at the courts and note the
costs. The year 1911 cost the
people SO, 1865 SO including the
county attorneys salary, now
take the difference between the
average cost for the years of 1908
and 1909 and you can see Just
what the county attorney is I'M
necessarily costing US. You will
see by taking the difference, as |
say, what it will cost US, which is
s4,OO7.79. Now if you want to
pay $4,000 every four years adj
ditional taxes for the VERY
VALUABLE services of the
county attorney vote to continue
the office if not, vote to abolish it
Tom Wilson says he saw a rat
the other day in the store with a
80 pound paper sack holding it
himself and filling it Up with
wheat shorts and after he had
filled it up, carried it out the back
door. Everybody knows Toms
standing for truth and verscity in