Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Cat the Tax Levy. Assessments of both real and personal property will be made this year. These matters call for caartral and conscientious treatment. The law should be obeyed. The assessment of both real and personal property should be at its cash value. No property should escape. The rich and poor, person's natural and corporate, should receive equally fair treatment. But no person, be he rich or a beggar, the owner of piivate or corporate property, should be allowed to escape taxation on a single dollar. Are property rights menaced in any manner, by mob, by riot, by insurrection, by strikes, by vandak who demands that government shall give ample protection, and if property Is destroyed that full recompense shall be made? Is it the poor devil with his dog and acart load of household effects? Or is it the man with cattle on a thousand hills or the rich corporation, who hrve at all other times evaded by every means at his command, his or its share of the expenses of this selfsame government, which in his frerzy he debases shall give himself and his ‘‘vested rights" immediate and adequate protection? He who will commit perjury in order to cheat government of its just share of tribute which is due from him, in payment for protection vouchsafed to his ignoble carcass and his property, should be treated as an outlaw, and the most summary and drastic punishment should overtake him. He is an enemy of society compared with which anarchy pales into insignificance. Many of the most flagrant and brazen cases of this kind concievable have come to light in this county, The guilty parties are known of all men, yet has any one been punished? Not one! Is there any move made to bring these guilty parties tc justice? None save he of the pot hound, or yellow cur! His name alone adorns the judgement record. Such mockery! Such a travasty on justice! * Evil aad Righteousness. Thursday evening, Mar. 23, ’99. the blue ribbon or league meeting was presided over by Pres. D. H. Yeoman. This being bis first attendance, his introductory was a good hint on the individual responsibility as citizens in regard to faithfulness in our respective duties as citizens. In the absence of Bro. Sheppard, Rev. Middleton filled his place. In the absence of Mr. Wilson, his place was filled by Mr. R. S. Dwiggins. Song, by Mrs. Dr. English and Hattie Yeoman, followed by a talk from S. P. Thompson. Not being expected to be called on for a speech, he did not 6eem to catch the ‘‘hearings of the situation." He reminded me of the story of the farmers'bog in the corn field. After haning chased him back and forth so often across the ditch concluded he was on both sides at once. Perhaps he is like Bishop Potter, hence his idea that Evil and Righteousness should go together. The Judge is a great fellow for moral suasion. Like Dr. Rainsford, nobody was ever made moral by law. “Thou shalt or shalt not,” would have a tendency to develop all the bad in a boy or girl, woman or man, and would cause a boy to go two or three blocks to steal apples rather than take them out of the barrel at borne. I notice in homes where there is no coercive power, it is only home in name. Some homes don’t need it so much, as some people are horn good, like the Judge, for instance. If there was more coercive power there would be less need of reform schools. Such power is much needed in state and nation. A law that is not enforced isn’t of very much consequence. “Live at pence with all men,” beautiful thought, “as far as lieth in you.” Peace! Peace! Do you bear the echo? Pence, sweetened with rags and abuse, surely Simon did lose “his bearings.” There is too much peace when loved ones are going owrain disgrace by the legalized “An ounce of preventive is worth n pound of cure.” Good advice, Simon, better get on the side of i%kt mad throw in your mightiest ante at the ballot box to prevent the mloom which » a “mighty good place to stay body’s will power is not so good as join’s, and not speak at a temperance meeting in such a way that all the Liquor Leagues in Christendom would give you the right hand of feUowahip. This nation “a government for the people and by the people,” should read The saloon for the people and bv the people.” These things should not off. When the Christian voter has as much gumption as the saloon keeper, the saV • -'W . _ <*•-,•» %, : fc - ■" ' - *ff - , * V

loon will be a thing of the past. We have men, whose children have gone to the bad, by the natidfi’s corse, equally as good and brave as our Simon. Most people think Simon smart, and so he is. But, like most people, he doesn’t do as well as he knows. So he preaches before the young that Evil and Righteousness should go together. That we should persuade people to do right. That coercive power is a bad thing (except in collecting the whiskey revenue), but the people get part of the swag and that makes it all right. I notice that wise and strong minded people act equally unwise sometimes, as those who don't know so much. A Visitor.