Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1912 — Jasper County Again Being Rapped by $l6 Per Day Experts. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Again Being Rapped by $l6 Per Day Experts.

Two of Tom Marshall's accounting board leeches struck town yesterday and announced to Auditor Hammond that they were here to check up the accounts of the township trustees at the rate of $8 per day each or sl6 per day jointly. No ope sent for them. No one would have to send for any of us if there was $8 per day and traveling expenses in sight They just came for the t money and when the farmers are out planting their corn this spring and harvesting it this fall, they will be earning the money by the sweat of their brows that the state board of accountants dispenses with such easy grace. About the time that these men leave town another set wijl come in to check up the affairs of Rensselaer and Remington and Wheatfield and they will be followed by another set of accountants who will start in again on the county officers. All at $8 per day they travel in teams of two, for the sake of company and each one to watch the other to see that he don't work too many hours. You see that a real good accountant is quite certain that a man who works with his brain should not work more than six or seven hours a day. Do you feel your bank account slipping; Mr. Taxpayer? The board of accountants continues to cost Indiana' taxpayers about $300,000 a year> and the property owner pays the freight* by maintaining about a hundred fat office holders. All this in the name of Tom Marshall economy.