Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — WHITE CO. TAXPAYERS DENIED [ARTICLE]

WHITE CO. TAXPAYERS DENIED

Right to Spend Their Own Money to Build Hard-Surfaced Road. Monticello and White county has been turned down by the state board of tax commissioners on the proposition of a bond issue of $190,000 to build a hard-surfaced road in Union township through* the city of Monticello, .which is known as the Renck road. Local communities have but very little to say these days about conducting their own affairs, under our new tax law which places arbitrary power in the hands of a few swivel chair gentlemen down at the state capital. All of which reminds us that Rensselaer’s plan of building a new electric light plant must finally be O K’d by 'this same tax board before anything definite is known, notwithstanding it is our money that we propose to spend and not one penny of the state’s or these swivel chair gentlemen's.