Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1905 — STILL THEY WANT A SUBSIDY. [ARTICLE]

STILL THEY WANT A SUBSIDY.

A new town is to be started in Washington tp , Newton county, on the line of the new north and railroad through that county. Work on the grade for the new road is already progressing rapidly, yet Beaver and Lake townships are to hold an election to vote a subsidy. The Democrat is squarely opposed to subsidies from the public to build railroads or anything else. If a business is not worth the paying for by the promotors it is not worth having, and the principle of helping out corporations in this way is entirely wrong. However, this is Newton county’s affair, or the townships asked to vote the aid, rather, and if they want to go down in their pockets and build a railroad from which they will receivemo favors except what they pay for, it is no concern of ours.