Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — THE CARNIVAL NUISANCE. [ARTICLE]

THE CARNIVAL NUISANCE.

tit is again announced that ensselaer is to be afflicted with a carnival this year and that the unhappy event will take place week after next. If nothing will satiate the morbid tastes of our “best citizens” but a hootchiecootchie and kindred attractions, it is at least to be hoped that the present city council is composed of men of sufficient backbone to remember the duty they owe to the public, and refuse to allow the principal streets to be used for carnival purposes; and that they will also refuse to annul all ordinances taxing shows and street vendors or give free lights and water for same, as has been dope in the past, If we must have a carnival, let it be held on some vacant lots or the less trravled streets, and Ist its promotors pay the expenses of same, instead of taxing it up to the public If the Castle Ha 11 association is an object of charity and must have the money to pay interest on its $16,000 of mortgage indebtedness, The Democrat favors a subscription being circulated direct for that organization, and let the city chip in the S3OO to SSOO which it usually costs it for the expense of a carnival, and then have no carnival, but keep our money at home. The McCoys took enough money out of this community without calling in a carnival troupe to come in and bleed us again.