People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is reported that Mrs. Jerry Simpson attended the inauguration ball, wearing diamonds and a velvet dress, but Mrs. Diggs says it is all true except she didn’t wear diamonds, or the velvet dress, or go to the ball.

It is said that Cleveland fears danger to the Republic from the rich. We think a greater danger is found in the fact that those who are entrusted with power havn’t sense enough to comprehend present conditions. All honor to senator Allen of Nebraska, who, finding that his senatorial duties consisted solely in satisfying Cleveland's division of the spoils, packed grip and returned to his Nebraska home to prepare for next winter's struggle with plutocracy’s servants.

The people had warning years ago that the corporations were intrenching themselves behind judicial barriers, and the late decisions of the federal judges prove conclusively that the prediction is true. The bench has become so contaminated with plutocratic influence in even the courts. A citizen of old Oak Grove township, Benton county, pays sls taxes a day the year round in that county, says the Fowler Leader. Let him cross the line and locate in some -of Jasper’s high taxed townships and we will raise $3 on the day. Oh, it makes a great difference where people live when tax paying time comes around.

The law of political ethics, that makes it the right and proper thing for one man to stand for the presidency three times, and hold the office twice, and at the same time disqualifies all other men for like rights and privileges, is so obscure, that it can only be comprehended by the man that is able to see that all our political ills can be cured by tariff reduction. Take him out. Last week in Bartholomew county twenty-three tax dodgers were caught, fined and made to pay into the county and city treasuries $14,000 back tax. This dodging dates back as far as 1880. No such smuggling can be indulged in in this county, our taxers are so vigilant, so anxious for a full treasury that no guilty man escapes. Everybody here suffers for the crime of being a citizen of Jasper county. If a “yaller” dog or a bobtail cow isyour only earthly possessions, in this county, they > are taxed and taxed hard.

There is only one correct course for a man in public office to pursue, and that is to do his duty in a business way. Whenever lie hesitates because of politics, he will make a failure. When it comes to a matter of transacting public business those whose duty it is to transact it should not be influenced by the fact that a man is a democrat or republican, Christian or infidel, white or black, foreign or native born. Our laws aim to give unto all men equal rights, equal privileges, and equal opportunities, and these cannot be secured by partisan practices. Public officers are the servants of all the people they represent and they cannot do their duty as they are sworn to do if they discriminate against any because of politics religion or nationality. So strongly is non-partisan administration of municipal affairs intrenched behind right and justice that no one can give any good reasons against it, and the sooner business is substituted for politics in county affairs the better for all the people of all parties.—Richmond Independent.