People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

As evidence of the good faith of Democratic leaders in carrying out their pledges made in their national platform, we note the committee on banking and currency, voted to not report a bill to take the ten per cent. tax off of state bank currency. Now, Democrats, watch them all along the line and may be you will be convinced some time that there is no dependence to be placed in them.

Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, is our kind of a man. When President Harrison made his tour of the western states the bluff old governor was asked when and where he would call on the president. He replied: “If the president wants to see me I can be found at the capital.” When some enthusiastic Democrats called on him last fall to get a few pieces of artillery to jubilate over Cleveland's election, he gruffly told them the artillery couldn’t be used to celebrate the election of a Wall Street plutocrat. Hurrah for Pennoyor! Republicans talk of reorganizing—for plunder, we suppose, for there is no other earthly reason, otherwise, why they should. Their policies have been tried under the most favorable conditions for over a quarter of a century, and pending the election in which their policies were repudiated the second time in two years, there were nine millions of mortgages on record, the indebtedness on farm property aggregated four billions, a million of idle men were seeking employment, and the military under arms in four states to hold in subjection dissatisfied and striking workmen.

A notice of intention to apply for a saloon license was lately published in the Remington Press, not for the purpose which the law contemplates, of giving notice to the parties interested of what was being done, but for the exactly opposite purpose of concealing it. By a mere accident the people of the town of the proposed saloon learned of the license notice in the Press.— Republican. All very true, Bro. Marshall, with the exception of the last sentence. Why didn't you tell your readers that it was the PILOT which posted the people of DeMotte of the proposed application, who then appeared as remonstrants before the commissioners and caused the license to be refused. It was no “accident” which caused the discomfiture of the saloon keeper, but the PILOT. Please give us credit for this good work. Only fourteen counties in the state pay a higher rate of county tax than Jasper. What has led to the high tax in these fourteen counties we have not learned. There may have been some reasonable excuse for part of it. Some of them may have made extra improvements that could not be well avoided; some of them may have been badly managed; all we know about it is their tax is high. The question with us is why is our county among the highest taxed counties of the state? We have no bonds upon which to pay interest, are not in debt any way, are making no extra necessary improvements, have paid no tax for gravel road repairs, have no large streams to bridge; in fact we can not see why our tax is so much higher than taxes of the majority of counties. We pay a higher rate of county tax than any other county in this congressional district, a higher rate than any county that joins us except Stark. By way of comparison; Newton county is worth $775,871 more than Jasper and her county tax last year was $10,158 less than ours. Pulaski |is worth $1,775,210 less than Jasper and pays $14,639 less county tax. Benton, with $3,720,906 more taxable property than Jasper, pays only $3,129 more county tax, while Lake,