Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

a - .M*a- ■ v_ WNIXS ITS PATRONS .VhoFuJl Worth of “**— 5 Their Money by t* n!T* ! W <,*'*>< Taking Them —« Sadtelyand Quickly >, l» between jjd Chicago • Lafayette indianapolis Ginoinnati* innfcvillei PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS ELEGANT PARLOR CARS ALLTRAINS RUN THROUGH SOLID Tickets Sold and Baggage Checked to Destination. OFGet Maps and. Time Tables if you want to be more fully Informed—all Ticket Agents at Coupon. Station* have them—or address JA-S. BARKER Genera) Passenger Anon t The expenses of President Harrison’s pleasure junket, now on, will foot up $40,000. Who pays the bill? Harrison is on an electioneering tour* and in his absence the leaders left behind are busily engaged in setting up the pegs for Blaine’s nomination.

Ed. Sentinbl: Bro. Marshal seeks to make political capital for the republican party out of the new tax law by doing some systematic lying concerning the same. Bro. Marshall is either a fool or mistakes the farmers to be fools. He professes great sympathy for us because hereafter all forms of property must be listed at its full, true cash value, or, n other words, what it would realize at a voluntvry private sale. A reader of Bro. Marshall's misrepresentations wc uld infer that the provisions of the new law the farmer would be compelled to pay more than his just and equitable proportion of taxes, but such is not the case. With all forms of property listed at its actual cash value, there can be no unjust burden or class privileges. It was to protect the farmer from paying more than his equitable share of the taxes that the new law was enacted. It was a Farmers* Alliance measure and as such passed the legislature. The alliance of nearly every organized county in Indiana, either by petition, resolution or memorial, demanded the enaetment of a law equalizing values, and an increase of the levy for State purposes so that the State debt might be liquidated as rapidly as possible; and Jasper county recommended an increase to 25c. The features of the new law was discussed in many of the subordinate alliances as early as last June, and the fact that the resolution passed the county organization without a dissenting vote is evidence that Bro. Marshall’s sympathies are entirely wasted, and that the farmer is not so much a fool as Bro. Marshall would wish him to be. Under the old system of values personal property, especially live stock, was listed at the actual cash value. At least one-half of the live stock ■old in Jasper county between last June and November sold at or below the assessed value. Not so with land values. The last appraisement of land fixed the assessed value at from one-fifth to one-half of the full, true cash value, thereby discriminating against personal property, or making SIOO invested in live stock or other personal pay as much tax as S2OO or SSOO invested in land. There are instances in Marion township in which the tenant on a farm listing SSOO in personal property pays as much tax as the owner of the

farm worth at least $2,000; and what is true of Marion township is true of every township in Jasper county. It was to remedy these inequalities that the new tax law was passed. More than one-third of land in Jasper county is owned by nonresidents. the new law these nonresident and wealthy land owners must pay their just proportion of the taxes, and as this will largely increase the assessed valuation in the county and place the farmer with his few hundred dollars invested in live stock on an equality with the non-resident speculator or wealthy resident land owner whose broad acres in many cases were e ecured through the misfortunes of those more honest than himself. The increase in these values will cause a corresponding reduction in the levy for county and township purposes, and the amount paid by the average farmer in county and township taxes will be redueed to a much greater extent than his State tax will be increased. Bro. Marshall makes a wry face because the new law makes no provision for catching the holders of mortgages and notes. We will state for his benefit .that the county records are open to inspection, and that the new county assessor will be paid far loosing after unlisted moi tgage notes as well as all other forms of property, and that there is an Organization in Jasper county that will aid him in his search for unlisted property, and whosoever fails to list his mortgage notes or any other values must pay the penalty to an offended law. No doubt Bro. Marshall thinks his tirade against the new tax law will operate as a firebrand in the ranks of the Farmers’ alliance. It is on a par with his attacks on the school book and Australian ballot laws. If Bro. Marshall’s dissatisfaction with the condition of things in Indiana increases beyond the power of endurance J ws suggest that he seek a more runny mime—Liberia, for instance— where he wise