Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The total tax levy for this year in Rensselaer for all purposes, city, county and state, will only be about $2.45 on the hundred dollars, against $3.05 last year and $3.49 the year previous. This reduction will he a welcome relief to many an over-burdened taxpayer. The Middlesboro, (Ky.,) Record of Sept. 8, contains an account of a big democratic meeting at that ?lace in which Capt. Charles H. •rice, a brother of our present county surveyor, and a former clerk of this county, delivered the introductory address. The Record gives Charlie’s speech in full. We copy the first paragraph which shows plainly where our former citizen, stands in the present political fight in Kentucky: “I was opposed to the nomination of William Goebel, not because he is not a great and gifted leader, and will make a superb chief magistrate but for the reason that rny closest personal and political associates favored the candidacy of General Hardin. I am one of those who subscribe to the doctrine of standing by your friends. But when the Democratic party in its wisdom confided to his keeping the glorious banner which has been sanctified by time, and made forever sacred by the touch of Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan, he became your candidate and mine, and I want to say to you that the man who claims to be a democrat, and frowns upon his candidacy, or refuses to give loyal support to the ticket which he heads in this great contest for the mastery of the State and the supremacy of democratic principles, is a foe to the Chicago platform, a traitor to the party and an enemy to the progress of old Kentucky.”

This talk about the county being overrun with wolves during the next year by reason of the County Council appropriating no money to pay wolf scalp bounties is the veriest nonsense, as is also the talk of the gravel roads going to destruction by reason of the Council cutting down the estimate for gravel road repairs. A large bounty for wolf scalps renders the breeding of them a profitable industry, and w’hile perhaps this has not been done in Jasper county as yet, the increased expenditures for this item would indicate that there were more wolves in the county now than ten years ago. In 1890 but $162.50 was paid out of the county fund for wolf scalps; in 1898 it had reached $197.75, while in 1899 (as shown by auditor’s report) it was $279.50. For the latter year Newton county paid out but $43: Pulaski, for both fox and wolf, $115; and White, both fox and wolf $42. The fact that Jasper paid such an exravagant bounty possibly helped our neighboring counties of Newton and White but it was a little hard on the taxpayers of Jasper. Perhaps next year they will get their share of these scalps, providing their county councils made appropriations for paying bounties thereon. In the gravel road matter, Jasper county has but 24 miles of road that will require any repairs to speak of, and sl,ooois appropriated for this purpose—over $66 per mile This sum is more than is paid by any county in the stnte that we have heard from, and if honestly expended should keep our roads in much better repair than they have been kept in the past. It is a mystery to most intelligent people what was done with the immense sums alleged to hnve been paid out heretofore for gravel road repairs in this county, and the roads themselves give no solution to the puzzle. What the gravel roads of Jasper county need is more material and less superintending.

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