Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — The New Rail Road. [ARTICLE]

The New Rail Road.

Winamac, Ind., May 7,1883. Editor “Republican,” Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir: The people here, and east of here, are exerting themselves in securing the right of way, and preparing to vote the tax in aid of the early completion of the R. R. & St. L. Rail-road, and it is hoped that your people will do the same. Enough has transpired already to satisfy the people on this end of the line, that the projectors of this road intend to build it, if the people along the line will secure the right of way, and vote- the tax in the townships through which the road will run. The two. per cent tax should not be looked upon as a “bugbear,” for it is nothing more than money loaned to the R. R. Co., at compound interest, as the. taxable property of the road will refund it, four fold, every year for all time to come. Your nonresident land owners are being made rich by the construction of rail roads, and why should they not contribute the small sum of two per cent, on the value of their lands to help enrich themselves? There are no reasons why they should not, and many good reasons why they should. This road will benefit this section of the state immensely, as it will fill up the last link in a great trunk line, between N. Y. and the East, to St. Louis. With three or more transcontinentals to the Pacific, and another line, recently opened, to the city of the Montezumas. you can buy tickets and check baggage almost from your own doors to every prominent city between the two oceans, when this link of one hundred miles is completed. Then do not hesitate to grant the small pittance of a two per cent, tax, and the strip of land 100 feet wide for the track, of the road, for when this is done, the road is assured. The people on this end of the line, have satisfied themselves that the road is a> certainty, provided they do what they promised, and they are doing dt promptly and cheerfully. Will your people do the same? If they do, you can all look for an early completion of the road. Have each man use his influence with his neighbor, and keep the ball rolling, until the last man to the Illinois state line has given the Company the right of way, and made up his mind to vote the tax. When this is done the rail-road is a “sure- thing.” Hoping, that you will stir your people up to the great importance of securing the-construction of this road, I am One of the Vox Populi.