Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-25
Noxubee's Financial Condition.

Editor The Beacon:
Am asking that space be allowed
in your paper to acquaint the tax
payers of our county with condi.
tious, in my opinion, requiring
their immediate and careful, as
well as studious, attention.
claim that | am not peSsimistic;
on the other hand, | claim to be
an optimist. And, inasmuch as
the "difference between the opti-
mist and the pessimist is droll-
the optimist sees the dOughnt and
the pessimist the hole,n which is
a result of the fact that the peSsi-
mist is looking for the hole in the
doughnut and not for the nut.
The writer has been and is now
looking for the doughnut and not
for the hole, but in spite Of this
manner of looking, l, with many
others, have been and are now un.
able to see only the hole, and / am
satisfied that the cause for my be.
ing unable to see nothing other
than the hole is that it has gradu,
ally increased in size and thereby
diminished the size of the nut to
where it is invisible to the naked
eye.
We confederate veterans first
saw negro slavery, the Civil war,
worse many times than the pres
ent one for the South, then Car
pet-bag Rule, Ku Klux reforma
tion and re establishment of white
man rule, the reconstruction and
re. establishment of the South's
prosperity, The re-population Of
the South, (not by foreigners ei
ther) and many additional achieve
ments incident to making the South
the garden spot of America, Mis-
sissippi the garden spot of the
South and NOXubee county the
garden spot of Mississippi. The
confederate veteran claims to have
been no unimp0rtant factor in the
rise to world wide power and in
Auence of the United States of
America, and the part the South
and Mississippi has played, thru
it's contribution of such men as
John Sharp Williams, George,
Lamar, Walthall and others, in
national government. What gen
Grafton of men have survived more
political and economic changes aud |
contributed more to the comfort, |
security, happiness and pro perity !
of locality, county, state or ma
ton than the Confederate veterans?
Some few veterans are yet able |
to appear in the management of
our county and state affairs: | |
think now of Emmett "Big Bud" |
Cayett, a man of large caIibre, be
it from a physical, mental, moral
or religious standpoint; | am glad .
that he is again my representative
in the Mississippi Legislature, one
of the three or four veterans sit
ting in that body. | hope he will
remain there the rest of his life.
But just having paid my taxes
(or rent may have had some eff
feet on the general pessimistic tone
of this communication.
o, this State ADMINISTRATIONS
do not feel to be very much respon-
sible for it, by reason of the fact
that have never cast my ballot
for any of the preseut State off
cials doe Power excepted, aud | /
know of no one of my name who
has.
Present indications are that, not
since Carpet-bag rule, nor even
then, has the financial condition
Of our States business approached
that condition now staring us in
the face.
At time, now, when every tax.
payer in the State is endeavoring
to meet the expense bills incurred
by reason of the Kaiser's halluci
nation and high prices tor commo.
1ities resultant therefrOm by cur.
failing the expenditures for all the
.uXuries and many of tho former
necessities his family demand, re.
Iuire and need, we are astOunded
)y the excess appropriations asked
Tor hy the present incumbent of
the governors office; and judging
the future by the past, the Gov.
ernor Will get the most of his
wishes supplied.
But il has seemed to me that
)ur Board Of Supervisors are large.