Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1909 — ANENT THE CARPENTER TP., SUBSIDY ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

ANENT THE CARPENTER TP., SUBSIDY ELECTION.

Remington, Ind., Aug. 10, 1909. Something to consider before voting a subsidy of $19,000 In Carpenter tp.:

First. Indiana is the only state in the Union that will allow a tax voted for a promotor, to turn into the treasury of some corporation. Second. The people of the United States are to-day trying to devise a way to control trusts, and monopolies; and voting this tax means that the people of Carpenter township are willing to go down into their pockets and pay $19,000 for something that they know nothing about. One per cent in this township means $19,000, or from two to fifty dollars from every property owner in Remington, and from S4O to S9O on every quarter section of land in the township. This money if voted will likely be collected in two installments, and in the face of our present taxes, and more to be added next year, as the Beeks, Gieb and Fox road tax will be added to the $60,000 of stone roads now building. How do you feel about having an additional 1 per cent added to this amount? And who will get the money? Do you know of any financial standing back of the person promoting this enterprise?

Third. How much has Reynolds, Goodland, and Kentland profited by having two roads? Have they outgrown Remington to the extent that we should pay $19,000 for an electric road, when these neighbor towns all have trunk lines, that carry all the products of the farm, and in which traffic an electric road can not compete?

Fourth. Before you vote, satisfy yourself as to who will get this money. Look up the financial standing of all those promoting this, and see if in your opinion they could build a railroad; satisfy yourself that you are going to get a square deal, and when satisfied vote your sentiments. We have south of us, the best Country in Indiana, and some time before long a railroad will go through that will be worth something to us and will be built as the Indiana Harbor road at Kentland was built, without asking a subsidy. Consider what you are voting, and what it is worth to you, and where the money will go. Respectfully, CARPENTER TP. CITIZEN. Ripe olives 20c a can—Home Grocery.