Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN, j T hursday, August 11, 1892. -A ■' > -• ■■ ■ Mflmo rvMT THURSDAY hv >EO. 33. PCbJASHKR AND PROPHITTOB. —— —— : —— OFFTCSC- —I® Rer*W«*n bnlldioF.4.on corner ol War-Sir"fcta»BCd Westonstreet*. Terras of Subscription. o »0iBM • ■••■ Six <nonth<..... * •>-..... u.- .--m; -- - Tttree months ........ 50 Ths Official Paper of J asper C euntfe >

dxeectoht - ' ~ ~ ' ..J —CORPORATION OFFICERS Mwtil * ■.... ...>.tA.M. L. WAKWK. ftS* * “ .ctfiwcw G. Spitl-fst- ■■ . C.C. Stahr inward.. .. M.-B Alter 1 2d Wa<7. .U~J. C. Porteb - I“h wfc^cilWoodworth. JABPER COUNTY BOAROOF EDUCATION, j C. Gwin Trustee .. Grove tp. •fichae'.Robinson. Trustee...... dSL.“T a M Hcrshnsurn , Trustee ,„„WHlk£Elp.._ » •Tr.ieJU Barkley tp. ffimHh Konkin. Trustee B ' a r ■ PM>n rtn Trustee'"' Kankakee tp. Trustee vnteatce.ctp. ZlboMcCashen. Truatce.. , UnkXtn. 5”^^""“:::^—-ggSS; U D I CIA L Circuit Judge .S'.'..Erwix P Hammond. Proscut jus- Attorney John T. Brow V Torino of in January. Third Mo> dav 4u MaxcfiUFlrst. MQBdayZUr June; Third Monday in October. c ou n tyoffTcers ~ Herlr .... WILLI AM H. CcOVKR - «h*r,ff " Put). IP BLVE. / Auditor B. MlTi.it AY- / T?ee K r-e- " M AitK 71. iIEMPH I I.L- ’ • ■?' • Jam ES F Antr; a BttrvJror x ■ "• James U. ThrAwi.s cSm£r‘"" ...It. 1* .BF.KJAMtN. Klintcn.leM Publ=r Schools J.J W™ ( ls« District. I-£ vtEßin. Ooniinisftioners ?2d IHsttigt . Wajmjk. 6<l District O. P. T ABOB. Coflwwtotonet A’t’oert—Firs! i>nd-iy» in March Juul, Stpltiv-’wand !)<•<■<• .•it.l'er

Principal Points of the Platform.

We believe in the American doctrine of protection. We believe that articles, except luxuries, which can not be produced in the United States should be admitted free of duty, q,, We demand that on all imports competing ■with the products of American labor duties should be levied equal to the tween wages at home and abroa-i. We ask the people to pronounce a’venlict upon the cowardly course of the Democrats in attacking the tariff piecemeal. We believe in reciprocity, which has opened new markets for the products of Jthe .workshop and thefar nt. . - We believe in the use of both go'd-and silver money.' We demand that every dollar ,2>Tetherjof gold, silver.or paper, shalllbe other dollar- “' ‘ We believe in an international conference out the w.erld. -7 demapd that every, citizen, r ich er poor native er foreign b£rn, w hito or. black, shall be permitted to cast one ballot and have it counted as he cast it. * We propose to keep on lighting t ill we hat e honest elections in every State. We favor the revival of ouriforelgn com-, merce in American ships. a •< We demand a navy to protect our interests and maintain the honor of our flag. WWdemsnd that arbitrary combinations o capital to control trade conditions shall be rigidly regulated. We believe in wise and consistent civil service reform. ‘S” 4 . We believe in admitting all the Territories into the Union as soon as they are qualified for entrance.

We reaffirm the Monroe doctrine. We demand the restriction Of criminal) pauper, and contract immigration. We demand that the employees of railroads, minesand factories shall be protected against all needless dangers. ' We sympathize with the oppressed in every land. We demand freedom of speech and of the press. We believe in popular e location. We favor the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by Americans. We bob eve in self government for territor les. We believe that the Columbian Expositions should be msde a success worthy of the s-aity and progress of the nation, and that tire government should aid in this if necessary. We'sympathiz- with,all legitimate efforts' to promote temperance and morality We pledge to the loyal veterans of the war for the Union the recognition that is theirs by right. * • We are proud of President Harrison’s mag nificent administration. And we propose to ..give the country an other administration Just as good for the next four years

A BRITISH VIEW OF OtJR TARIFF. “The promoters of the McKinley tariff meant it to push forward the policy of America for Americans. ' Ohe method of realizing it was to keep all work uf thin their own dominions. The Country was to be made self-supplying; what could be produced at home was not to be bought abroad.' That was the key-note of the McKinley scheme, and it is working the idea, of its designers with the precision and effectiveness of a mapApie.—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

More About Taxation

The following is an exact reprint of a table of taxes published I ass. weekin the People’s Pilot: STATE TAXES. r- ' ” ft ’ l *z’ State tax .1591, $9,100.70 Increase “ •• .. IH9O, 5,564.21 $3,536.49 Benevolent, fund .1891 4,05C85 seljier luonniiient tx]B9l M 0.37 State school tai It<<l $11323.1=2 , ■ “ - .ISM) 7,099 78 4.728.84 E,fcr End. Fund Tax ..1891’-' H 40.33 '3? •• « , ••-. 189 b 191.94 148.30 Increase in state tax .... 12,833.44 COUNTY TAXES. tax. .. .... .1891 $30,632.67 Increase •■ " .....1890 23,te3->7* <> 1,648,80 Tdwnshiptax.. ..L .1891 6,489.52 •• ...IsMO 5,433,26 1.016,52 Tuition tax ...1881 14.Wi.73 " “ j 189 ft-;. 9,999.20 4,281.53, Special school tax.. .1891 15,173.22 • “ i ><—....1890 12,249.42 2,923.80 Road tax .1891 14.069,78 -♦ “ 18&0 '* 7,370.23 6,699.55 Dor taj;.. 1891 ~ 1,05i.00 Dog tax..,,. ;..... .*,IBBO 1,090.00 Decrease . $6.00 MisceHaneous tax .1891 none « >• ...1890 3,352,39 5-et increase in IcTHl.taxes : . : . ~r. ~tS3SirJ» Tot. State & Co. tax. Isl 107,419.29 Increase ==w==!=w= =afCe? = stx i

These figures are furnished by the Democratic State officers and the state pentral committee. The figures are, in the main, correct. One very' important item is incor reef however, probably not ins tentior.ally so. The item showing the net increase of local taxes is given at §13,351 55. In point of fact, however, if from the sum of the fix items showing increase in local taxes, is subtracted the sum of the two items showing a decrease, namely tlmdog tax §6 and the ‘‘miscellaneous tax” $3,352.39, the result will be $13,211.31, as the actual Increase in local taxes.

liiis is $139.74 less than, the Pilot's figures, and is also nearly f!te correct figure. Which is jttst $1,251. Any honest man, looking at the above table, will see,that it directly ahdtinanswerably, gives the *lre to the declaration that the> “court house cclan,” the “leeches” the “ring” the “ringsters,” the men who "ought to be wearing stripes” Ac Ac., are responsible for the increase in local taxes, except for the comparatively small item of «$.1,648i80, of county tax. All the other items in the table under the general head of “County Taxes”' are township and town taxes and are levied and expended by township and town officers, some of whom are Republicans and some of whom are Democrats. Another statement which the above table, directly gives the lie to, is in the matter of the total increase of local taxes.. Even the incorrect balance given in the table of $13,351.55, and which ’is at least SIOO too large, is slil considerably lees than the “$16,000 t(US>18,000” increase which 1 the Democratic and Peopo-Democratic papers have been howling about. And brings us to one of the most audacious, preposterous and palpably false statements ever uttered, even by a Peopo-Demo taxincrease peryaricator. Following the table in the Pilot is this remaxk: -- ——.

“It will be observed that in 1890 Jhere were $3,352.39 of miscellaneous taxes, while this year there is none, so in reality dur local taxes have been increased $16,703.94, while in the above figures the net increase shows only $13,251.44. In other words, taxes which were levied in 1890, and were not levied in 1891, and thus causing an actual reduction in the latter, arg according to the Pilot to be counted as collected. If they-can go back one year and find a tax levied then, which is not levied now, and add it to the increase of this year,; to make a ■showing unfavorable to Republican officials, they can just as truly go back, three years or five years, or any number of years and find similar items and add them also to this year’s increase. IVhy not go back, for instance, to the year 1883, and get the item of county jail tax, $3,388.94. and add that to this year’s increase. That, with] the other fraudulent addition of “miscellaneous taxes” of 1890, would raise the entire increase to the §2O 000 which about the figure of the original lie.

"But there is still something more to be said about this mysterious, item of “Miscellaneous tax,” which these self styled reformers manip ulite in such a remarkable way that it counts just the same, on years when it is not levied as on years when it is levied.

Now the only k ind.of a tax levied any place in the county for; the year 1890, and not levied any place in 1891, is a “special additional’ ’tax"! evied by the town of Remington to pay some school bonds. This tax amounted t 05657.31. Now if these remarkable reformers must I really insist upon counting a tax evied last year a; d not levied this year,as stillbeing levied for the sake of helping them out of a bad hole, even then they .can only count $657.31, and that sum can’t possibly lie stretched enough to raise their $13,351.55, alleged increase in local taxes, to $16,000 000 and even $20,000.

As to the balance of this socalled “miscellaneous tax,” namely $2,695,08, we have taken some ■ rouble to find where the democratic officials who are furnishing the ammunition for the tax fight, found their figures. We found that in 1890. “Additional Road” taxes were levied in eleven townships and that it occupied a separate column on ths general tax abstractjsheet for that year, and tlfet if produced a total tax of $2,695.08, or just the sum which added to Remington’s special additional tax of $657.39 will make the s Pilot's “Miscellaneous Tax” of $3,352.39. Npw this-- same

‘ ( Additi6nal Road”- tax was -levied in ships, and maxes a total' of $4,658.81. But in the tax abstract for that year, it is put in the same column as the'Rop.d taxes, and in the footing is added to it * and in the Pilots table above copied it, forms a part of the total Road tax •of 1891, of $14,069.78.

THEY DON'T WANT THE TRUTH.

The Pilot has been clamoring for some time past for an explanation regarding the local tax matters, and at the same time making al sorts of wickedly slanderous charges against our county officers. Last week Mr. Charles E. Mills, our present county assessor, prepared a clear, frank and absolutely

truthful statement of the county tax matter, and which, being the truth, fully exposed the false and malicious character of the Pilot’s charges. This article that paper published over Mr. Mills’ own signature. In the same issue of the paper appeared several editorials criticizing and vainly .trying to break the force of Mr. Mills’ appear these sentences; addressed directly to Mr. Mills: The tax payers of Jasper county pay 526,084.99 more this year than last, and Mr. Mills says the state took $12,833.44 of this $26,084.99. Now, kind sir, who got the rest? We paid it: you tell the people where it went.

Mr. Mills took the Pilot at its! word and prepared another article, giving just the information asked for in the above quoted paragraph, and Monday morning tendered it, for publication, to the local editor of the Pilot. Be was informed, however that the article could not be accepted. “The Directors” had held a meeting, last Saturday, and decided that it would not do to publish any mwe true statements about the county taxes. Mr. Mills’ former article had evidently completely demoralized the whole outfit, and another like it wonk knock them clear out Tffey are “running the paper for politics effect” and didn’t want any more t ruthful statements about the tax matter. '

The following is the article which the Pilot Refused to publish;

Editor Pilot:- Misrepresenta- ■ tions, falsehoods, libel, slander, horrizontal additions and irresponsible | utterances by unknown authors do not count with honest people. We I challenge the party who enjoys the unusual privelege of criticizing our article before it is published, to identify himself. To come out from his hiding, that the people may know from what section and party he hails, oh his mission of reform-

in his editorials the editor asks us to explain. To let the light of truth into hiS addled brain. To teach him a fhw lessons in simple arithmetic. He admits that we have stated correctly the amount of increase in State and County taxes, and he now asks' us - who got the- nest?

‘We paid it; you tell the people where it Went.’’ Wilh the greatest of pleasure, we will tell you all about it. The levies made by the Township Trustees for the yeay 1891, show an aggregate increase over the whole amount collect- ■ ed for the year This sum, together with the balance of the levy for 1891 will be distributed among Ihe 13 Townships and two corporated towns when it is collected, and will all be used for the purposes for . which the levies were made, by the Trustees during the current and fiscal year. The “Special School” will not be sufficient to supply the actual needs of all the Townships this year. Righuhere in Marion Township some new

school houses are needed, but caimot be built this year because the tee will not live enough of the ‘spec ial school fiind” to spare for that purposo; Last year the school year was cut short, because the tuition evy for 1890 was not large enough to conduct the usual term of school, in all the. Townships. ( This no doubt, is one of the reasons why the Pilot man is so faulty in his arithmetic, he probably only got as far as subtraction. ) > This year, the school year can be lengthened out to from six to seven months of school, this cannoV fail to be highly satisfactory to all believers in progressive education. If the tuition fund would only justify nine months of school-- it would be better still.

The road tax shows the greatest increase of all, and every dollar of this fund will be expended, and more money is sadly needed, as many, very many of the roads in Jasper County are in a deplorable condition. The Township tax will all be needed, and not a dollar of -surplus will remain in any of the township funds, levied for the year 1891. In fact, every fund is deficient in money, to do the work that properly ought to be done. The Trustees are , all of them practical economists, and believe in distributing the burdens of taxation as evenly, and. as lightly as possible, and consequently they all of them made their levies as fight as they dared to make them in order to offset the heavy taxes that will have to be paid into the State Treasury. They roundly resent imputations that they are in any way identified with any scheme or system of robbery by which the hard earned money of the people would be piled up without necessity. .. They are every one of" them men who have earned a competency by honest toil, and are not schooled ? like our Pilot man in the tricks and wiles of this wicked world. They are all of them respectable taxpayers, (and, for aught that we know the Pilot man’s taxes only consist of a poll and a dog.) It is interesting to observe, with what tenacity the Pilot man sticks to the statement that the in-j crease in Jasper County taxes is $16,703.94 piled up for uq purpose but “to Thake TEe Kdmfi's eyes of the people?” Study for a mojnent the plan that he has adopted in arriving at the above conclusion. With characteristic impu.dence, and a skill born of long practice in the art of deception, he. in his eager attempt to defend his wild state . ments, on the principle that a lie we stuck to is as good as the truth, actually adds to the taxes of 1891 $3,352.39 miscellaneous taxes collectef in 1890, but which do not appear on the tax duplicate of 1891. What does he mean by this action Is it an application of the principle of “robbery” that he is talking so loudly about? « Why not deduct thi553,352.39 from the taxes of 1891, and thus wipe out the $1648.80 increase in County taxes, And thereby become a philanthropist and ease the burdens of an ovec-Ux. ed people ? The same juggled figures will answer in either case, will equal propriety, and would be equally correct. But a man who will not speak the truth himself, will not accept the truthful statements or proven facts of others; but will, like the embezzler, try to cover up his ahorio"?. and resort to any . means to ffifike his column add; blindly trusting to chance to hide his boodler efforts. And yet, the Pilot man, guilty as he is of all of the above doubtful practices, poses as a sample of party reform. “Turn the ring out” Give the Pilot man a chance if you want a taste of genuine boodler methods.

TO WHEATFIELD REPUBLICANS.

A meeting to organize a Tyheatfield Township Republican Club will be held at Graves’ Hall, on Friday evening, Aug. 18. Good speakers will be present and address the meeting. Let us have a-rousing good meeting.

Township Chairman.

Still doing Watch Repairing At the Citizens Stattdßank. AU work warranted/ u Hakdmak 'Tan, Jawtui

Charles E. Mills.

JOHN GRAVES.

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