Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — DOESN’T FAVOR SUBSIDIES [ARTICLE]

DOESN’T FAVOR SUBSIDIES

And Epecially the Purtelle Brand Again Being Asked For. D. J. Pettit, one of Wolcott’s most substantial citizens, was in Rensselaer a few hours Thursday and asked how the Purtelle subsidy election would go in his township, replied that it was hard to tell. Only about a year ago the same proposed was defeated, and he thought it would be defeated again. > Mr. Pettit thinks there should be same law passed shutting off this subsidy business. There might 1 have been a time in the early development of the country when there was some excuse for voting aid. but that time has gone by. And especially should this thing of calling an election every change of the moon to vote on the same proposition be stopped. Princeton tp. and the town of Wolcott will vote again Octl 28 on the Purtelle proposition. A year or more, ago several towns in White county voted on the same scheme, and it was defeated all along the line. Whether it will do better now or not remains to be seen.