Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1904 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ANOTHER REASON WHY TAXES ARE HIGH. Jasper County tax payers will no doubt relish the following. It shows that the corporations have the common people by the throat: Increase in assessments on lands and improvements on lands by the Republican State Board of Tax Commissioners in 1903 in Jasper County.... $ 839,069 Decrease in assessments of railroads of Indiana in nine years by the same board... 4 16,297,989 Decrease iu assessments of express, telegraph and transportation companies in Indiana in 1904 931,265

Gvernor Wright of the Philippines has written a letter to President Roosevelt recounting some of the troubles that he encounters in the islands He says the continued discussion of the Filipino’s capacity for self-govern ment in this country is making his task as governor harder Then why don’t he resign and come home? Of course the task is hard, and will always continue to be hard. But the chief trouble Js that it will be harder