Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1891 — It Costs You Nothing. [ARTICLE]

It Costs You Nothing.

It is with pleasure we announce that we have made arrangements with that popular, illustrated magazine, the American Farmer, published at Cleveland, Ohio, and read by farmers in all parts of this country and Canada, by which that excellent publication will be mailed direct, free, to the address of any of our subscribers who will pay up all arrearages on subscriptions and one year in advance, from date, and to any new subscribers who will pay one year iff advance, or to any subscribers in arrears who will pay us not less, than $3.00 on his back subscription. This is a grand opportunity to obtain a firstclass farm journal free. The American Farmer is a large 16-page illustrated journal, of national circulation, which ranks among the leading agricultural papers. Its highest purpose is the elevation sand ennobling of Agriculture through the higher and broader education of men and women engaged in its pursuits. The regular subscription price of the American Farmer is 81.00 per year. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. From any one number, ideas can be obtained that will be worth the subscription price to you or members of your household, yet you get it free. Call and see sample copy. ’ The Joliet A’eirs says the buildings- for the new tin plate factory at that place are going up rapidly, and will be ready to commence manufacturing in the fall, perhaps in August. The owners say they expect to turn out about 1,400 hoxes a week at first and employ 200 hands. For a time the supply of tin ore will -come from Malacca, Singapore and Australia, but they expect to get it ultimately from the Black Hills, which, they say, “are full of tin, and if the people will only give the tin companies breathing time they will be getting it out and supplying the market.'’ About the most prominent ofjthe Democratic managers in Rensselaer, boasted a few days since that the Democrats and People’s party would combine at the next election and scoop everything in sight in Jasper County . There is no doubt but that the leaders in the two jparties mentioned will try to work this 88 they did ast year, when the s P nominated two Alliance were on the Democratic ticket, but passed the Republican Alliance candidates by, on the other. We >donot think the scheme will suc<eeed any better the next time, nor even come as near succeeding, as it did last year. The “Tariff Pictures” of the New York Press worry the Democratic free traders greatly. They present in graphic form the facts of the benefits of Protection in this country, in a manner so plain and with facts so incontestible that “a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein.” The facte of the pictures are nearly all

based upon the market quotations in the daily papers, open to the inspection of all men, and official reports of the Treasury and other government departments. In all these “pictures” so based, the free traders have not found a single statement they could deny the truth of. Lately, however, the Press based one of its pictures on statements regarding the productions of a woollen factory at LaPorte, this state, which was erronious; the factory not being in operation a/all Of course the Democrats all over the country are making the most of this mistake; and considering the record of the party which planned, executed and profited by the Morey letter, there is no doubt but that some scheming Democrats deliberately invented the false statements which misled the Press into making the erronious statements regarding the LaPorte factory. It was a characteristic Democratic trick.

- In the South the enemies of the Republican party seem to find it to their advantage to abuse the party on account of the liberality of the pension laws; and liberal indeed they are —more so than any eve r before passed by this or any othe r nation. In the North the opposite policy is sometimes adopted, and the pension laws are falsely reviled on account of their alleged want of liberality. In Rensselaer for intance, the new anything-to-beat-the-Republican-party organ declares that the Union soldiers were given only a “pauper bill” and also says, in effect, that the soldier has to declare himself a pauper in order to obtain a pension under its provisions. Nothing could be more pnjust or farther from the truth. The disability pension bill gives a pension to every honorably discharged Union soldier who is wholly or partially unable to earn a support, graduating the amount of the pension u pon. the-extent of the disability, a nd this irrespective of the financial condition of the applicant. In no way, shape or manner does the applicant have to “declare he isjLP a upef' or even in dependent ci rcuifi stances; neither is any proof required that the disability was incur red in the service. . , ....

Why don’t the “stuffed prophet” Cleveland, whose dolorous progncstieatiois of calamity because of the, tariff and “the surplus” have ccme to naught as well as his echoes throughout the country, right here in Rensselaer for instance, enter a little into particulars when they howl about the "Billiou dollar CGiigr+w" ami- assert that “our last congress voted a way abillion dollars of the people’s money, to corporations, to companies, and private individuals?” Why don’t they mention even a single mil--1 ion that was voted away i mproperly ? It is true that about 40 per cent, of the expenditures of the government during the last two years have gone into the pockets of “private individuals” in the shape of well deserved pensions to Union soldiers. If our democratic friends object to that, le't them say so openly, and not skulk behind vague and general statements. As to the “corporations and companies" that are alleged to have been voted money; no one better knows the falsity of the assertion than the authors themselves. It is a billion dollar country, gentlebieii,- and every patriot should rejoice that hi? lives in a nation great enough, rich enough and wise enough, to be abU’to expend 500 millions a year for ifich benifieent purposes as supporting the country’s defenders. pry.ng interest upon and extinguishing the' jjiiblic debt, building of naval and other, defenses, carrying on a grand- system of public improvements, Ind the regular expenses of the government. It is a “billion dollar’’ country i and glory be to the author of all good aild to his faitMab in-j strumeut,the Republican party, for the fact

For a few specimen beauties of the new Democratic assessment law we would call attention to one single section thereof, Bec. 114. In regard to the County Board of Review, tin's section requires, “Two weeks previous notice of the time, place and purpose of such meeting shall be given by the County etc. Then, “In all cases where the Board deems it necessary to add omitted property or to increase the valuation thereof, by the assessor, it shall cause the names of the persons to whose lists of' property is to., be added, or the valuation of whose property is to be increased, to be inserted in the notice herein before provided for.” Can some Democratic statesman tell how these names are to be inserted in a notice, which has been published two weeks before? “Such Board may, at its option, cause to be servedupon the person * * * a written notice that it is proposed to revise or correct his list.” Now of course the Board can do nothing but adopt‘this method. In this case “the taxpayer whose list, return, statement, or schedule it adjudges, shall be revised or corrected as aforesaid, shall be liable for all costs occasioned by such ret vision, or correction.” This cost will amount to from one dollar to perhaps six dollars in each case according to the place of residence of the party, and in each case where his assessment is raised the taxpayer who had nothing to do with fixing values, as a rule, must pay this cost. For instance, the o wner of a farm or town lot peril aps knows nothing of the amount at which it is assessed until he rec eives notice and appears before the Board. He perhaps assents to his assessment being raised, but still he must pay the cost occasioned by the assessor’s lack of judgement. Or suppose the assessment of an entire Township must be raised to equalize it with the others. ’Shall “notice be served on every inhabitant of the Township at a. cost of hundreds of dollars and these costs charged to the taxpayers of the Township? Again, thousands of acres of land are owned in .the county by non-resi-dents, to whom no notice can be grvenunderthe requirements of this law. Shall they be permitted to come in and demand a reduction when assessed too high but go free for want of notice when assessed too low, thus having such advantage over residents? Then this section of the law, after providing for the notice above spoken of, io be published by the County Auditor, followed by setting forth what the Board may do in the way of corrections, additions "'eS7~conlams =r tEis7 ‘TiCaTI .cases where a change has made by it (the Board) or omitted property placed by it on the returns, two weeks previous ncAlee-oI the time, place and purpose of the meeting of the Board of Review shall be given by the County Assessor.” This sentence should certainly have a special “Board of Review with full powers of substitution etc.” The above citations are all from one section of the act containing 260 sections.