| Show A state mago for sale salo well wo we hayo have the fruits fruita of the carpetbag system of taxation before us in the shape of the auditors advertisement of sale of lands forfeited to the state of arkansas in consequence of the nonpayment ot of taxes due thereon to take place on the second monday in feb eeb auary 1872 11 published in the weekly publican republica He of january 9 some idea of the le ie of the taxation imposed upon the people of arkansas by mr carpet bag gerlis government in the first year of his hid rule may be derived from an examination of this advertisement recollecting that the lands embraced in it are only the residuum after collectors the have sifted all that could be sold in the counties where forfeited for the price of the taxes unpaid and after the owners have had hud two years to redeem from the auditor such as they were able to redeem deem the advertisement is printed in non tarell dareil type and occupies more than tha n sixteen pages of a sheet as large as the weekly IVe jve ekly guzette at legal carpet bag rates the more publication of it one insertion costs the state of arkansas twelve thousand three hundred and twelve dollar bl it is ia published also in pamphlet form this pamphlet contains in sized type in medium octavo form closely printed pages wo we have taken one page no aa an average of the whole the thu auditor offers fsr far sale on that one page seventy two tracts 15 27 acres taxed for 2901 62 or nearly nineteen lin uin eteen cents per acre taking page as an average of the whole pages and we learn anat comprised com prized in tracts the whole number of acres offered by the auditor ot of lands fortel forfeited ted tea in 1868 is ia 31 94 on which the amount of taxes unpaid is ia 20 a sum far greater tuan than the entire revenue of any aay year before 1868 we commend this statement of fig urea to those states who keep koep the carpet in their own penitentiaries aries weekly gazette Ga ark |
