People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Another Voice Raised [ARTICLE]

Another Voice Raised

To The Editc.r of People’s Pilot.' As you have given the people the privilege of discussing the new couit house pro and con I thought I would give the sentiments of Sbmeof the tax payers in this. Newton township. We are paying all the taxes we care about, unless it was for something that we need worse than a new court house. As Mr. Tabor says the old one has been fitted up. as the commissioners thought sufficient for years to come, and in the eyes of three-fourths of the tax-pavers it is. I have not been able to find a single man in

this end of the township that was in favor of it. I cannot understand what got those two commissioners in tne notion of building a hundred thousand dollar court house, which by the time it is finished will very likely figure up half that much more including the expense of those two commissioners sn their excursion through the state gather-, ing information and sight seeing. I suppose that court house wduld look very nice to the farmer that has to pull from seven to ten miles through the mud with three dozen eggs to sell at twelve and a half cents, and a few pounds of butter at the same price, for a good deal of the time he cannot get his fifteen cent oats and twenty-two cent corn through the mud to market. If we must be taxed lets have more gravel roads, these would do us farmers some good. If we all had as good house to live in as that old court house, and had it all paid for, we would not think of tearing it down and going in debt to build a new one. I do not think that either of two commissioners would do it either. If the court house is built it will stand as a monument to the graves of those two men for I think it will be their death politically. It would be worse than folly for them to present themselves before the tax-pay-ers of Jasper county for any thing in the future. Gentlemen stop and consider which would be the greatest benefit to the people of Jasper county a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar court house or more gravel

roads.

MUD SPLASHER.