Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Our County Indebtedness $153,635. Ed. Democrat: I see by my daily that the taxpayers of Shelby county are making a great ado over their county being in debt $120,000 and addditional bondp of $25,000 likely to soon be issued. Two of the commissioners, who were in office when this indebtedness was made have, on account of public complaint, been forced to resign. It appears to a Jasper county taxpayer that these Shelby county people are wont to make ranch trouble over a little matter. Why, our county, with ten millions less valuation, or less than half the taxables of Shelby, is swimming right along with an indebtedness of $152,625, and our commissioners do not think of resigning! By reference to the State Statistician’s bulletin No. 10, March W, we see that Shelby county failed to report “on debt,” but Jasper’s figures are there and among the very largest in the state, as compared with wealth and population.

TAXPAYER.