People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Should Be Careful. [ARTICLE]

Should Be Careful.

Editor Pilot—The people of Marion township will be called upon shortly to decide at the polls whether or not the pro posed gravel roads shall be built. They should study the question from every point of view with much care and render a verdict accordingly. There is no doubt but what good roads, are a great convenience and of public benefit. But it is an open question as to whether the people of the township are able to bear this burden added to their already heavy burdens of taxation. People now have all they can carry iu the way of taxes which are entirely too high, but which the “high taxers,” which rule the county, have as yet refused to reduce. Is it safe then to vote additional burdens at a time when values are shrinking and disaster threatens on every hand? We think not. Farmers and business men are now struggling to their utmost to stem the tide that threatens them with ruin and are in no mood to vote upon themselves “the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.” * *