People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Taxation in Tennesse [ARTICLE]

Taxation in Tennesse

Editor People’s Pilot:— There seems to be a great rush from this county to Tennesse, quite a number of our people have moved there the past year, several have made large investments who have not yet located, while every week we hear of a new crowd of prospectors off for a look at the country. A majority of those who have returned’ seem well pleased with the state, the climate, the people, and above all with the low rate of taxation. Scarcely has is a man returned from there but what has something to say about the low tax. If any people on earth can appreciate the blessings of low taxes it is surely we poor tax ridden souls of Jasper county. But we do not have to run off to distant Tennesse to find lower taxes than we pay for there are many counties right here in our own state that pay scarcely half the tax we do. If Tennessee would still have low taxation, as an inducement to immigration some steps should betaken by her people to discourage Jasper county republicans from coming into the

state.

M.