Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1908 — NOW “COME UP OR SHUT UP.” [ARTICLE]

NOW “COME UP OR SHUT UP.”

Regarding the assessment of fees due the Republican editors for publishing legal notices, and which were not reported for taxation, the Republican says: "This money was largely for publishing ditch notices and had never been allowed and much of it may never be collected. The Board unanimously voted that it was the sense of the board (Board of Review) that the items of fees due as cited by Mr. Babcock were not of taxable value and they refused to enter thgm upon the assessment sheet.” The law fixes the rate for legal publications, and if the Republican editors charged no more than the legal rate—which we presume they did not—-there is no '“allowing” or disallowing to be done by anybody, except as a mere matter of form in some cases, and they must be paid in full. The Democrat has some fees due it for legals that it values at 100 cents on the dollar, and if the Republican considers its fees of so little value —many of which are in the same ditch causes as our own—we have a proposition to make to them: We will pay them cash down 50 per cent of the face of these fees that the board of review held were of “no taxable value.” Yes, we will do better still: If the Republican editors .will duly assign these fees to us we will pay them 75 per cent of their face valine, cash in hand! This offer is made in good faith and we stand ready to back it up with the actual cash, gold, if the Republican editors would rather have that kind of money. We will also agree to turn in for taxation all these fees which remain uncollected March 1 next, even though the Board of Review should later cut them off the list as beihg of “no taxable value,” In our nearly 20 years experience in publishing a newspaper we have never heard of a printer losing a dollar in fees of this kind. Anyhow, we are willing to take the chances, and if the Republican trio think the above offer a bluff they have only to “cgjl” it to see how quickly they get the money in their hands, - - Subscribe for The Democrat