Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1914 — Raise in Tax Levy Cost Jasper County $10,305.50. [ARTICLE]

Raise in Tax Levy Cost Jasper County $10,305.50.

'r' . < Party policies are in the main national policies.. State issues are usually the efforts of the politicians to frame up things that will ’hold the rank and file’of their parties to vote the ticket. If there is more than any other thing that is and should be a constant issue in the state it is business management, ability to conduct the'. affairs of state economically- and to avoid the creation of offices for the purpose of giving jobs to politicians. No party can claim complete freedom from doing this. Unfortunately parties are controlled by schemers who care nothing for the welfare of the people of the state so long as they are able to feather their own nests and reward at public expense those who have made their own affluence possible. We should none of us become so blinded by politics that we can not see when the business of our state is going wrong. Taxation is a matter that affects ns all and we all know that the democratic legislature, not the democratic party, in Indiana, created offices and increased salaries until ah increase 'in the state tax levy was necessary to meet the expenses. Persons who heard Thos. Marshall’s campaign speech will recall that •he made economy and the reduction of taxes an important speech. They will recall that Samuel Ralston did the same thing, and they will realize now that both men failed utterly to fullfill the hope which they expressed that careful democratic management would accomplish reduced taxes. It is too bad. It would have been a great thing for Indiana and for all of its people if Thos. Marshall and Samuel Ralston and their counselors and advisers could have made good, but they did not. They failed arid they came right back to the voters who had believed that they would be able to reduce the taxes and charged them with the failure by increasing the state tax levy 8% cents. Every reader of this newspaper paid a part of the tax. It cost Jasper county $10,305.50, practically a dollar for every man, woman and child in the county. Of course, it is not a per capita levy, but is based upon the property you own and some persons have paid a lot of money because Cover-, nors Marshall and Ralston were unable to make good on the business control of the state.

Voters are much like individuals in the control of their business. When they think they are not getting a square deal one place they go to another. They have not received a square deal foi> the past six years in Indiana and a change is needed. Legislatures no longer elect United States senators and there is no good excuse for supporting a party in the state on national issues. Legislature! make the laws that form the basis of expense of running the state. They don’t pass tariff laws, they don’t pass anti-trust laws and have practically nothing to do in the issues that make us partisans. They are elected as the servants of the people and they have a duty in Indiana now that is higher than party, it is the duty of citizenship, most , importantly expressed now in the public demand for curtailment in the rtmnlng expenses of the state. The Republican believes that Tom Marshall was well meaning, and that Governor Ralston is anxious to represent the people as they desire, but that both were and are dominated by the unscrupulous methods of Tom Taggart, the Indianapolis boss, add by Crawford Fairbanks, the Terre Haute brewer, ahd that the democratic party is dominated by the corrupt machine ♦which these men have established. New offices have ’been created, salaries increased and extravagances indulged in that have made taxes higher than they were, higher than they should be, No relief can be experienced until the Taggart-Fair-banks crowd is overthrown. This can be done if the republican state and legislative ticket is elected. Not because it is a republican ticket, but because it spells the defeat of the extravagant crowd now in control. -