People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — SPECIAL NOTICE. [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL NOTICE.

All persons who are entitled to j premium books and have not reIceived them will kindly advise us of the fact and they will be sent at once. The People's Pilot. The inequalities of taxation and how the rich escape makes i the blood boil with indignation. The bankers and speculators and money kings will be overthrown and the danger is that I the masses will go too far in revenging their wrongs and. like : Sampson, pull down the temple i and crush all alike.

A certificate of David Gore, the auditor of public accounts for the state of Illinois, shows that all that the bankers and brokers of Chicago had assessed for taxation was only £44,<>00 of money, while farmers of that county were assessed £84,000 for agricultural tools and implements. Think of it! The farmers' tools are assessed nearly twice as much as all the money credits and securities of all the banks, bankers and brokers of that great city. And all the diamonds and jewelry in Chicago were assessed at £17,750, when it is known that single families live there who own diamonds and jewelry ten times that sum in value. The money of these banks amount to hundreds of millions, but through the manipulation of municipal politics the rich control the assessors and escape taxation.