Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — For Country Voters. [ARTICLE]

For Country Voters.

To toe country voters of Marion township who propose voting against the railroad tax because they believe that Rensselaer will derive a greater share of benefit, from the building of the road, than will the country residents of the township we would present a few considerations: A through competing line to the Eastern seaboard, securing, for all time, better prices to farmers for all the products of their toil, wiil be worth to them all that it' will cost ten times over. How unwise then to throw away a chance for getting a good thing, simply because somebody else stands a possible chance of getting something a little better. The farming lands of the townif situated near such a tojvn and slick a market aS Rensselaer will .soon become, if it gets the new railroad, will soon be worth double what they now are. This statement is no exaggeration, and is afaiply justified' by the value 'of farming lands in neighboring counties, no better than our own land, but situated in proximity to better market towns. Every dollar which the township proper votes for the railroad will be paid back by the company, in the shape of taxes, in ten years time at the longest; and will be paid back in the same manner, as often as once in ten years for', alii time. The corporation of Rensselaer, however, will get, comparatively, speaking, almost nothing from the raihoad in the way of taxes. , * ■. , Every dollar which town afid township together vote to the : railroad will be .paid back rnpre than ten times in every ten years, fey the. increased price of farm products lghich will result from ihe building of the road. . fTliis road, as nearly everybody already knows, is to be a branch ‘6t the Chicago" <k Atlanti(vand, like that splendid line, is to be built in .the most perfect and substantial will be raised on a roawbed so wide and high, as will require a wide, deep ditch on each of the track, which for drain'agP'purposes alone, will be worth 4fr that the farmers will have to •' fatiy if the tax is voted. k. * /