People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — A Tax-payer's Voice Raised. [ARTICLE]

A Tax-payer's Voice Raised.

To the Editor of the People’s Pilot. In looking over the last week's Repub--1 can we find quite a le’bgthy article in I justification of the action of the county | commissioners, which is all right, but I don't think the writer went back far enough. There is a very popular citizen around the court house who will be affccte ? by a court house tax the same as I am by the dog tax. (I have no dog.) I have seen him during court go up and sit down by our gixxi friend. Judge Wiley. and call his attention to the supposed leakey condition of the roof, and the cracks in the ceiling and the general bad condition of the building I think that is where the ball began to roil. Let her roll, it is all right with inc, but lets stay in the middle of|tb(\|road.DAfter the or<ler forfthej new house the Kepublicangsays ’it met thejalmost entire.approval of all’|the people. Now exactly the reverse is true. If the people had a chance they would vote it down in everyjtownship in the county:even Rensselaer would vote it down, worse than it did the waterworks. Peoplejdon’t talkfmueh for the reason it does no good.rjWc would like to have a good court house if we were aide to build_it. So far as the long time bonds are concerned it amounts to’cash. We must pay the eash or pay interest, which is worse. Interest is the worst thing on earth. Why did the architect tell us the clerk office was in a frame building in the court yard? We knew that before he told us. He says the commissioners hold court in the auditor's office we knew that. He says tin* court room is unhealthy. If that is so ujl the second floor rcoms in town are unhealthy. A person does not have to be very well acquainted in Rensselaer to guest) who dictated that report. Respectfully,

TAX PAYER.