Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — IN FAVOR OF THE CARPENTER TP. SUBSIDY ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

IN FAVOR OF THE CARPENTER TP. SUBSIDY ELECTION.

And in favor of the election carrying for the Interurban. In answer to Carpenter Tp. Citizen in the Jasper County Democrat of August 11th, wish to say that the whole of the 1 per cent tax will not be collectable until the cars are running on the road, and In a very few years the two roads will pay back to the township more In taxes than the 1 per cent will amount too, not mentioning the other benefits derived from having two roads running through the township.' Carpenter Tp. Citizen asks what benefit two roads have been to Reynolds, Goodland and Kentland? In answer to that question will say that Carpenter Tp. Citizen is in ignorance of the facts or thinks that all the rest of the voters are. Voters, I leave that to you to decide. All any one has to do v to find out what benefit the two roads have been to Goodland is to think back a short time and they will remember how difficult It is to get cars to deliver their grain here at Remington and also at Wolcott, and how easily it is to get plenty of cars at Goodland. Another thing I have noticed is that when the people of Goodland want to ship a car load of horses to Chicago, they don’t have to lead or ride them to Remington, to load them Now, as to the growth of Goodland compared to Remington before the road was built north through Goodland, Remington was by far the largest town, not so to-day. And as to Kentland: Let any of you voters go to Kentland to-day and you will see a town that is outgrowing any town In Jasper county and just since thg road was built, too. Carpenter Tp. Citizen asks us to satisfy ourselves as to who is going to get this money. Now as far as I am concerned, I don’t care if they throw it in the Pacific Ocean, if we get the road by their using the money that way. Voters, ask any one that lives in a section of the country traversed by electric cars and note what they say in regard to the benefits. Again, farmers, express your produce, poultry or anything you like to Chicago from Goodland and then try the same from Remington and see if you ’don’t save quite a little money by expressing from a town with two roads. Now, then, voters, I, too, am willing for you to consider the proposition and vote as you like, hut don’t let any bosh like Carpenter Tp. Citizen's article influence you in voting. And I don’t think it will. All you need to do is to do your own thinking. Kentland is not far away, ask the farmers along that line if they are sorry their road was built? Ask them if they would do without the road for a 1 per cent tax? I want to see our people have as good as anybody else, and if we could get the road without the tax I would be glad of it. But some other people want the road and they want it bad enough to vote a tax if we fail to get it, and thereby do us more harm than the 1 per cent tax will harm us, for as soon as the road is built and the tax paid, our expense stops. Not so with the stone roadsThink this matter over and remember that it is not best for this road to go east of us and leave this good section of* country without a road north and south. Respectfully,

A TAXPAYER.

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