People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — A Slick Scheme. [ARTICLE]

A Slick Scheme.

Mr. Poor Man how do you like the looks of that printed circular you received through the mail telling you how to vote on the gravel road question and showing in bold type just what your taxes would be? It was very kind of the two rich young gentlemen who got this circular out to go to all this trouble and expense all for you. If these young men ever earned a dollar by hard labor no one seems to have discovered it. Yet they are very free to give you who have made all you have in this world by bal’d work, advice as to how you shall vote. It is not “hard times” with them, and never was; they don’t know what “hard times” is to the poor man, and we question much if they care if they accomplish their purpose. ' Now if these two young gentlemen referred to are honest, as they claim the anti-gravel roads men are not, and are not acting as the tools of their uncle, Simon Parr Thompson, in the matter, why did they not sign their names to these statements, so that the tax-payer might judge for himself whether It was selfinterest, or whether they were working as the tone of their statements would indicate, wholly for the public benefit. Let the tax payers solve this question for themselves. * * ■jv