Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — Where Republicanism is a Tax. [ARTICLE]

Where Republicanism is a Tax.

The levy of six and one-half cents to pay off the state debt amounts to $8 ,371.79 in Johnson county. To relieve the people of this burden the tax law was devised to so equalize assessments as to make corporations pay their just pmportion of revenue. Accordingly, railroads alone in this county are taxed $6,818.74 more than last year. This, together with the increase on telegraph property, and the revenue derived from property heretofore withheld from taxation, is about eqjial to the increased state tax. and one offsets the other as*was intended by the general assembly. But the Republican officials in the two townships and three corporations under their control have increased the revenue $9,521.46 and can give no reason for their action. Republicanism is a tax with a bix T.—Franklin Democrat. <