The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-03-10
LOAN WARRANTS ARE NOT
ISSUED BY SUPERVISORS
In View of Petitions Presented
Against Issuance, Board Decides
Best Not to Borrow

of the County. notice was given OF
the Boards intention, unless protested
against by 10 per cent of the tax
payers of the County, to issue $35,-
OO0. in Loan Warrants at the March
meeting. The Sentinel is advised that
petitions bearing the names of over
two hundred tax payers were filed
with the Board on or by the first Mon
day, the day of the meeting. Later
two or three other small petitions
were filed. The Sentinel also under
stands that the supervisors made a
rather hurried examination of the pc
titions to ascertain the number of
qualified electors on them, and that
they found that quite a large num-
Der could have been properly stricken
off. nevertheless, it was the judgment
of the Board. in the face of the oppo-
Sition to the issuance of the warrants,
that it was best not to issue them at
this time, even were the etltlonS
filed shown to be inadequate to defeat
issuance. 1t is authoritatively stated
that it was the intention of the Board
to borrow from another fund already
in the County treasury, however, its
intention in this regard was not shown
in the order giving notice of the pur-
pose to issue the warrants.
The Sentinel is of the opinion that
a good purpose will be served by the
protesting petitions. 1t will give a
breathing spell and, give the public
q better opportunity TO learn the real
status of the County's condition, and
will perhaps prompt the Supervisors
to make q detailed statement of what
the County owes and its prospective
expense account for the year. This
paper feels that if the supervisors will
make it plain to the people of the
County that the funds to be derived
from Loan Warrants are absolutely
necessary to the proper conduct of
the County's business, that there VIII
be no trouble in getting practically
unanimous consent to borrow the
money.
The filing of the petitions against
issuing the Warrants was a partial
manifestation of the sentiment of the
public against high taxes and eXces-
sive public expenditures. That senti-
rnent is abroad not only in Grenada
County but throughout the State. erd
indeed the Union. The people are
tax-ridden. however, The Sentinel
feels sure that the better judgment
% Grln3.,is.. County would not have
the Supervisors pursue a penny wise
and pound foolish policy.
II one will take the time to look
ct the published list of lands dehn-
ouent for taxes in Grenada County,
he will get a fair idea of how heavily
taxes are bearing on the people. The
list is the largest in the history of
Grenada Count. indeed it is some
what alarming to the one who will
think. 1t appears in this issue Of The
Sentinel.
The Board of Supervisors Of Gre
NADIA County is constituted of the
County's best and most trustworthy
men. Whatever excessive eXpendl-
lures which may have been made,
were made largely at the behest of
what the Board thOught-and the
silence of those who thought other
wise reinforced this idea in the minds
Of the Board-was the expressed wish
Of the County.
4 recently enacted Statute, which
was prepared and introduced by
Sneaker Sennett Conner Of the House
of Representatives, and can be found
under the head of Chapter 1876 of the
Laws of 1920. no doubt had some
thing to do with the mind of the Board
towards the Loan Warrant issue.
This Chapter is amendatory OF Sec
ton 8. Chapter 209, Laws 1918. and
reads in nart as follows:
"Section 3. That no warrant shall
be issued or Indebtedness incurred by
any county or municipality unless
there is sufficient money in the partl-
cular fund from which the allowance
is or must be made. to aV such war
rant or Indebtedness.
The Sentinel feels that it can vOuch
for the statement that the Board de-
sires to follow the law ana that II 1t
has erred in anyway, it has Leen Tor
= want of knowledge Of the law, and
this paper does not believe that there
is a good citizen in the county VINO
rould want any sort Of wrath VISITED
on the Board who, when having been
duly apprised of any new Statute. d.
rected its actions accordingly. This
paper is sure that the Board as body |
wants to cooperate with its constr |
tuency and that it is glad to have the |
citizens of the County make known |
their views or wishes at any time. The |
Board. The Sentinel feels sure. does |
not consider the mates which the |
given them by the peo- |
ple to temporarily look after, as its |
own, or that what is being planned or
undertaken by the Board is. so sacred |
or personal that the public has no
right to interpose its judgment or
wishes.
Regardless of the urgency of many |
things. the public has got to learn |
that at least for while there are
some things that have got to be done |
without The idea of 'its bound to |
be done" has had great deal to do |
with fastening shackles on the people |
of the country today. 1t is time to |
pay as you go or quit going.