Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — An Echo of the Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad Project. [ARTICLE]

An Echo of the Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad Project.

Over in White county, where a subsidy tax was foolishly voted that paper traction line, the so-called Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad, in Round Grove and Princeton townships, petitions were filed with the county commissioners at their meeting this week, asking them to order the treasurer not to collect the tax, which had already been placed on the duplicate, and such order was made, whether strictly legal or not.

This probably marks the finis of the proposed L. & N. W. project, and it is doubtlul if another subsidy could be voted in either of those townships again for any such proposition. The people of this section of the state have been slow to awaken to the error of their ways in this matter, and ever yproposition that came along savoring of a subsidy was generally carried through with a whoop. Especially was this true with Rensselaer, but The Democrat believes that a large majority of our people have at last got their eyes opened, and a subsidy to any private corporation can never be carried here again. It is well 4hat this has come about. No community in the country has been so pestered by irresponsible subsidy-hunters in years gone by as Rensselaer, and we certainly should profit by our experience.