Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — Page 4

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“Oh, wen, just BO we can get them to believe it until after the The members of the Pilot gang are hard to please. They first declared the attributing the above remark to one of their number was a lie, and wanted to know which one said it When we accommodated them with the information'they asked for, the denial of having used the words is still persisted in, and the name of the person to whom the words were said, is asked for. We do not care to publish the gentlemen’s name jjfo, this connection without his consent, no more than any other honorable paper would, bat we wil give his name to any officer of the PtW Publishing Oa, who wil call upon ns for it, and who will * agree not to publish it without his DOußOuii

The increase of local taxes by Republican local officials in Indiana last year was $1,623,013.30. The only reason for potting this immence burden mi the people IWS to make them believe the state tax law did it. Can the people be deceived by this shallow A food idea of how much truth there is in the above paragraph, may be had by studying the complete statement of taxes in this county, in another part of this ' paper. The Democratic State Committee obtains its figures of | Bepublican increase of taxes, by t counting all the increase in Re- | publican counties, whether made by s Bepublican trustees or Democrat ic trustees. Bat the same role don’t work in Democratic counties, for in them they do not count the increase made by Bepublican trustees as part of the Democratic increase, Riddell would only be fair, but they count such increases ss part of the general Republican increase. In E&ther words ALL the increase in Bepublican counties is counted against the Republicans, and also a Democratic counties. There is also little doubt but that in making up these statements of increase, tiie Democratic committee dishonestly saglecte fb deduct the d&ve&hes made by Republican officials. They thus give the gioss increase when they ought to give ware made tor the purpose of . making the tax lew odious is also conclusively disproves by oui

1 flpvp t iv/M iV ' ■ 11V An ’ A ■-|II |j A ire Ce idusive. — THEY PRO VET- .EUTTEB j-, T-.ah —_i._*—.ill,",. Of All of the Pilot Gang’s Charges About Taxation* . I /, ' AND FI LLY: ’ESTABLISH THE TRtITH OF EVERY CONTENTION IN THE HATTER, EVER HAHEBV THIS PAPER,

' ■ Perjeent.or Increase of Township Taxes AJHMitais. Democrats, Hanging Grove.... 28 Gilism 3Walker....;: 103 Rensselaer,..... fi Marion,.;,. 16 Jordan...... 29 Newton 49 Keeperl6 Kankakee 136 Wbeatfield '4B Remington... 1,.. 7 Carpenter... 51 Mi1r0y...... 71 Union...., 39 Decrease, Barkley 5 Average per oent. of increase of five Democratic townships, 58 Average per oent of increase of ten Republican townships and towns, 33 Difference in favor of the Republicans, * 25 Percent, of increase by Republican county commissioners. 5 Average per cent of Republican increase, including the county; 30 and 1-2 Difference in favor of Republicans. ;27 and 1-2 The following article,taken in connection with the introductory portion given last week, contains a full, complete and absolutely truthful statement of the question of taxes in this county, under discussion by this paper and the Democratic Sentinel and the PeopoDemocratic Pilot.

These figures conclusively establish the truth of everything The Republican has contended for in- this discussion. Namely: That the state taxes have been enormously and unnecessarily increased. That the county tax has been increased but very little That the besides unnecessarily increasing state taxes, also throws a vastly greater proportion than before of taxes of all kinds upon lands and landed property, than it does upon personal property. That the increase in local taxes were honestly and necessarily made, and that the' assertions of the Pilot gang that they were made from partisan or corrupt motives at the instance of a Republican conspiracy, are wholly false, and absurdly salsa Lastly, we prove that nearly all of the increase in local taxes is made by township trustees and town boards, and not by the county commissioners. A word or two of explanation: These tables show all the taxes for the whole county for the two years that have been under discussion. Bach item giveu is exactly as it is upon the tax duplicates, and abstract sheets; with the exception that, for convenience of comparison, “Road” and “Additional Road” taxes am added together and given simply as “Road tax.” Also the one item of “Special Additional” school tax in Remington for 1890, is added to the “special school” tax. The different funds of the state taxes, three in 1890 and five in 1891, are also all added together, for convenience in comparison and to the work of the printer in patting the' tables into type. For the purpose also of helping out the printers we have omitted the cents in the columns showing increases and de-| creaww, iu all of tables exoepL

gate for each year, the difference between the -two years. r ( The state poll taxes have never figured in the discussion. They aggregate for the county about SSO less for 1891 than for 1890. By a slip of the editorial pen, or a mistake of the printer, a mistake crept into our comments upon \he Hanging Grove table, published last week, aud the error made ns say exactly the opposite <jf what we meant to say. What we did say was that “No railroad taxes are included iu these figures.” What we should have said was “The railroad taxes are included in these figures.” The railroad taxes are included in’ all these tables where there are any railroads in the township or town.

TABLES OF TAXES 1890 AND \ HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 Increase Decrease State taxes $640.52 1178.26 532.74 County tx 1473.23 1415.88 57 46 Tp. tax 390.28 314.64 75.62 Tuition tx 489.56 629.28 139.78 —- Spc’l school 682.96 943.92 260.9 C Road 477.88 98848 150.45 Total net increase of township taxes $475.55. . Per centof increase of state taxes, 81. \ Per cent of increase of township taxes, 23. This Hanging Grove table was published last week, but is repeated here, for the sake of having all the tables together. We made some comments then and now will only add that Mr. Gwin, the Republican trustee, is one of the very best in the county, and people of all parties there, have the utmost confidence m him. He has decreased one of his four township tax items, and for the increase of the others no further excuse is needed. The tuition inciease is for longer schools, the special school increase for a new school house, now, about completed; and the road increase for better roads. The percent of his net increase is less than half the average increase of the Democratic trustees.

GILLAM TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 In’se State tax $ 568.18 1264.12 696 Co. tax 1242.65 1499.82 256 Tp. tax 829.18 499.77 170 Tuition 411.47 499.77 88 Sp. School 493.77 666.36 172 Road 411 48 499.77 88 Per cent, of increase of state tax, 133 Increase township taxes, $5lO. Per cent, of increase of township taxes, 33. The new law gets in its work in Gillam by increasing state taxes 122 per cent, and it increases both county and state taxes much more in proportion, than the average increase in the county generally. The increase in the four items of township taxes is considerable, 83 per cent., but as that increase is 25 per cent less than the average increase by the Democratic trustees, Mr. Robinson, the trustee, although a Republican ought to be acquitted of the charge of increasing his taxes for the purpose of making the new tax law odious, or for assisting the “court house ring” to plunder the people. Mr. Robinson’s well known integrity of character is also a strong evidence in his favor, and his neighbors of his township, of all parties, will all agree that he is no “conspirator” nor tool of conspirators. Even the Pilot gang will acquit Mr. Robinson of the oharges which it has brought against the trustees generally, of being either villains or dupes of villams, if for no other reason than hia being a brother of a prominent member of the Pilot's official hoard, and his more distant relationship to the People’s party candidate for sheriff.

WALKER TOWNSHir. 1890 1891 * Il'CI State $ 599.17 1256.76 GSB County 1306.49 1479.29 193 Township 328.78 828 Tuition 432.62 657.46 225 Spec. Sc’l 259.57 828.73 69 Road 432.62 971.83 539 Per oent increase state tax, 109. Total net increase, lownahip taxes 1061. , Par oent. increase of township taxes, 193. The per cent, of increase of township taxes is the highest in the county with one exception. But as the trustee of Walker tp., who levied these ill ba.afuitlcd

for good reasons la th> matter of »*Mkd taxes, for instaneg. v.liith shows! r le 1 irgeat increase of *ny item, it may be stated, in explanation, that many new rouds are be-ng opened, jot only in Walker, bm. in all the lorthern towi‘ships, and new roads eost money. BARHLST TOWNSHIP. 1896 1891 Inc Dece $1999 02 m&M 783 ~ ' Do. .2413 39 2184.88 Tp. 799.14 485 53 313 Tuition 709.13 971.06 17l ; ' Sp’J Sc’l 1278 66 1213.83 Road 958.97 971.06 12 7 -- Per cent, of increase State tax, 71. . Total net Decrease Township taxes, $194. Per cent Decrease Township taxes, 5. J. F. Uiff, trustee of Barkley tp. i< the strongest Republican in northwest Indiana, but for all that, instead of increasing liis township taxes, to hurt the poor dear Democratic tax law, he has at tunlh made a net reduction of 5 per cent This lets Mr. Biff out, most conclusively.

RENSSELAER. 1890 1891 Inc Dec. State $1949.58 3071.25 1121 County 4502 40 8653.04 - —849. Tuition 1851.54 2029.46 167 Sp’l Sc’l 2885.38 2435.35 49 Per cent, of increase state tax.43s." Increase of Township taxes, s2ll. Per cent, of increase of township taxes, 5 (nearly) • Per cent, reduction of county tax 18.

Here is richness. The attention of the predominant Democratic wing of the Pilot gang is requested to this table. The workings of their beautiful Henry George tax law, which they can not say enough in admiration of, are well exemplified here. In 6pite of Rensselaer’s remarkable increase in wealth and population, during the last few years, her state tax is only increased 43j per cent., while in some country townships it is increased more than 150 per cent., and in the county generally nearly 100 per cent. What else could be expected of a law which increased the assessment of farm lands over 100 per cent., and of personal property, such as banking capital, money at interest, notes, mortgages &c., only two percent? The proportion of that bind of properly is, of course, much larger in towns than in country towaships, and the proportion of taxes in the latter will be necessarily greatly increased. This increase in country townships of course includes county taxes as well as state, as witness the fact that in Rensselaer- the county tax is actually reduced 18 per cent., while for the county generally it is increased 5 per cent, and in some townships the increase is over 50 per cent. The lam takes the tax of from the capitalist and puts U upon the fanner.

MARION TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 - Inc Dec State $1591.31 3068.91 1477 Co. 3457.30 3718-17 39 Tp; 746.48 413.18 333 Tuition 1244.14 2065.65 821 Sp’lSc’l 1492.97 1239 39 253 Road 1741.79 2065.65 323 - Per cent, increase state tax. 93. Net increase township taxes, $B9l. Per oent. increase township taxes 16. Wm. Greenfield is the trustee of this township. He is a Republican, the whole 6 feet and 2 inches of his length but he levies his taxes according to the needs of the township, and not to help or hurt any political party, (and we think the same thingcan be said of about all our present township trustees, Democratic as well as Republican.) In “Uncle Billy's” case, although he gave the tuition fund such a big boost, in drder to give the people the longer terms of school which they are demanding, the net increase of township taxes is only 16 per oent. which is less than one third of the average increase made by the 5 Democratic trustees.

JORDAN TOWNSHIP 1890. 1891. licrusi Dec. State $ 614.01 $1140.13 $526 County 1329.89 1320.46 9 Township 264.22 298.43 29 Tniton 440.36 586.86 146 Spcl. Sc’l. 852.29 586.86 284 Road 528.44 586.77 58 Per cent increase State tax 85. Net increase Township tax, $469. Per cent increase of Township taxes, 29. Jordan township enjoys the luxto tiiU J. tOilit/ $ M tfOt. i -* *

heard .fin the ebunty, who admits bavin: obeyed the celebrated ticret circnl; i- of tie Democratic State Central Cranutiee, advising democratic trusters and commissioners to cnt down local taxes to offset the increase 7 stnte taxes, no matter 'ihat local jiteiesa had to suffer thei.hy, or evtn if debts were incurred. The towns; ip nieds stew school hr uses very -isdly, but he is building n ne. It ne< s 1. >n;;er terms of school, as witness h w Democracy and Pepo-d< nocracy t oui is! es there, but it will have only about 6 months school this school year, while the average of the country schools in the county will be seven months or more. The roads of the township also need more money on them than the 'trustee is raising for them.

But in spite of all this dose cutting to conform to high democratic instruction, the township taxes of all kiadaahowan average-wjemtssofSS per eent. This lacks only one per cent. of being as great an increase as the a-ern»e made by the Republican consj iraters, who build new e< hool hous.* wiier needed, give the p ople the inoressei terms of school and the better roads they are demanding. The per cent , of iperease is almost exactly six limes larger than the increase in the county taxes made by the Arch Conspirators, the County Commissioners, themselves.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 Inc State 1872.23 1682.81 910 County 1833.82 2067.19 233 Tp. 364.34 459J7 95 Tuition 607.22 918.75 311 Sp’lSc’i 607.23 1148.44 541 Hoad 728.57 918.75 190 Per cent, increase State tax, 118. Total net increase township, taxes, $1137. Per cent, increase of township taxes, 49. Newton township has a Republican trustee. He is giving his township longer schools, hence the increase of tuition tax. Also better roads, hence the increased road tax; and having to complete paying for a “Dick-nail-ing” good school house, built last year, he very properly has largely increased the special school tax. We guess if Bro. Carr, of Jordan tp., with his record, is exonerated from complicity with the wicked Republican tax conspiracy, then Bro. Hopkins, of Newton tp., will be also, in the minds of all honest men.

KEENEB TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 Inc Dec State" $508.27 1099.16 591 Co. 1105.40 1294.92 189 Tp. 366.02 431.64 65 Tuition 366.02 575.52 209 Sp’l Sc’l 752.05 431.64 800 Road 512.43 863.28 350 Per cent increase state tax 116. Net increase Township taxes, $324. Per cent, increase of Tp. taxes 16. The tax law gets in its work well in Keener Tp., as witness the state taxes considerably more than doubled. The trustee is J. F. Bruner, a Republican. Inasmuch as the 4 items of township taxes show a/net‘increase of only $324, or only 16 percent, it is evident that he was not assisting the “damnable conspiracy” to increase taxes, to any great extent. The increase in the tuition fund needs no excuse (see Teachers’ Institute resolution No. 7), nor does the increase of road tax, to any person informed of the needs of the township for road improvement and the many new roads there. The special school tax (the new school house having been paid for) is cut in two, pretty nearly in the middle. This reduction would not have been made, had Mr. Bruner wanted to have made taxes high, to help out the “conspirators.” Mr. Brnner is proven “not guilty.’ ’

KANKAKEE TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 100 State $490.80 1254 88 763 Co. 1080.33 1507.30 426 Tp. 214.64 "502.48 287 Tuition 857.7$ 669.91 812 Sp’lSc’l 296.18 1004 86 718 Road 472.86 1004.87 532 Per cent, of Increase of state tax, 153. Increase of township taxes, $1849. Per cent, increase of to vnship taxes, 18$. The state tax law cyclone wreaks its wrath on Kankakee tp., with § vengeance.. Hue per cent, of in. crease of state tax u more than three times what it is in Rensselaer, more than twice what it is in Barkiey tp., and in Remington, and nearly twice U i|4u, m |Q vOCuIQ hQm Marion >

— T’ l T-'-'T - L '" the greatest in 'the county. Thi* fact is explained, not by calling Trustee Paulson a Republic m tax conspiraor. but by the fact that he, unlike the Peopo-Democratic trustee of Jordan tp., is building the big new school house needed is bis township, giving to the peo|le tin longer terms Of school they are asking for,. and putting Ihe needed money into the many new roads in his township. These facts not only explain bat they justify the increase n the township taxes; what facts ce. : justify the 155 per cent, increase of state taxes?

WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP. 1890 18,91 Inc State $481.95 1322.53 740 Co. 1033.03 1565.42 532 Tp. 205.24 347.87 142 Tuition 342.06 521.82 179 Sp’lSc’i 547.30 695.74 148 Road 547.30 869.67 322 Per cent, of increase State taxes 153. Total increase of Township taxes $691. Per cent. “ “ “ 48 The trustee of Wheatfield is S. D Clark, an estimable and able man, bat too strong a democrat, to have knowingly increased his taxes for the benefit of a Republican conspiracy and too smart a man to have been led into doing it unknowingly. No man who knows Mr. Clark, but will at once, exonerate him from the charge of having increased his taxes for the purpose of helping a Republican tax conspiracy. But if he, who has increased the the per cent, of his four kinds of township taxes an average of 48 per cent., be thus exonerated, how will the Pilot Gang justify the charge of high-tax conspiracy against the eight Republican trustees whose average increase is only 40 per cent., or eight less than V Mr. Cldrk’s increase ? Still less can they justify their charge against those chiefs of sinners,the county commissioners, for the per cent, of their increase of county tax is only about one tenth as large as that made m the various township taxes by the democratic trustee of Wheatfield, whom they will all vote guiltless.

REMINGTON. 1890 1891 Inc Dec State S7OO 25 1195.69 495 Co. 1417.33 1334.19 83 Tuifn 510.76 780.71 269 Sp.sc 1751.34 1640.4 S 111 Per cent, increase of state tax 71. Net increase Township tax $l5B. Per cent of increase of Township taxes 7 (nearly.) This table like that of Rensselaer, but in a less degree, shows clearly how much heavier the new tax law bears down upon land and real-estate than upon money and mortgages. For here the state tax increase is only 71 per cent., while for the county generally it is nearly 100, and lor some townships over 150 per cent. The table also shows that the Town Board of Remington was not “in it” very bad, in the Pilot gang’s alleged conspiracy to increase local taxes, for in the only two items above, with which they had anything to do, tuition and special school, only ore shows an increase and that for the modest amount of $204 and even that is nearly half offset by the de crease in the other item of slll. It is clear that the trustees of Remington are “not guilty” of the crime of conspiring to increase taxes, or they would have done a more thorough job of it. R emington, like Rensselaer, has increased greatly in wealth and population lately, but the Henry George land-tax tendency of the new tax law, lets the town off with a state tax-increase of only about half of what it is in the country districts of the county, while for the county tax It actually decreases iL

CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. 1890 1891 Inc State $1699.45 3740.22 2040 Co. 4003.99 20 559 Tp. 795.49 101407 218 Tuition, 1325.82 2028.12 702 Sp’lSo’ 1 ! 1060.66 2028.12 967 Road 1856.15 2535.17 679 Per cent, of increase of State tax, 139. Total increase of township taxes, $2566. Per cent, increase of township taxes, 51. The farmers of Carpenter tp., pay about twice the per cent, of increase of state taxes « do their friends and neighbors in the town of Remington. As for the township taxes, although they show a large increase, we are confident that not a single

is the trustee. No more intelligent, in the county than he. HR reads and his school houses are kept it the very bes-shape of any in the coir ty, and it 00 .ts cash to keep them so. Pew building v good new school l * use this yeat hence the large incrcas- of special chool taxes. The cu. ion tax win reased because the p« pie w*g| th tr school terms mere? ad; and the oad taxes because they '' ant better r> ids. The average per - *at. of incre* *e of township taxes is 7 ess than the average increase by* U i 5, Democratic trustees. MILBOT TOWNSHIP. : 1890 1891 Inc State $212.12 412 200 Co. 1 434.54 472.86 38 Tp. 143.88 262.47 118 Tuition 143.88 210.76 ; 66 Road 201.44 325.47 124 Per cat increase state tax, 94 Total increase of township r xes, $545. ! <-v^Per ( i nf increase township 1 xes, 71. Hie state tax in Mtlroy is only about doubled, and the township is lucky it is no worse. Most of the others are also largely although the county increase is only 8£ per cent. The four last items were levied by Trustee Kesler, now no longer a resident of the county. He was a Democrat in politics but, as we firmly believe, an honest and upright man, who made his levies for what he considered the best interests of his township. The tuition tax had to be increased to give the people longer terms of school and to pay the teachers the “McKinley” wages they now receive. The special school tax also had to be increased to pay the increased incidental expei sea of the schools. Many new roads are being opened in Milroy and the increased road tax is, easily accounted for. And in none of the taxes is the evidence of Mr. Kesler’s complicity in the “conspiracy” at all apparent.

UNION TOWNSHir. 1890 1891 Inc Dec State $924.65 2126.26 1201 Co. 2049.48 2556.34 506 Tp. 814.37 1136.15 322 Tuit’u 678 63 1136.15 457 Sp’lsc 678.63 284.03 394 Road 1085.83 1988 26 902 Per cent, of increase state tax, ISO. Total net increase of township taxes, $1286. Per cent, of increase of Tp. taxis 89. | Union township also “gets it right in the neck” in the matter of state takes. The increase is much more than double. The increase of county tax is much highei than the aver tge for. the county, which is only 5 per cent For these two pleasant facts the people of the township can thank the new Democratic Henry George tax law. The four items of township taxes also show a healthy net increase in spite of the fact that the new school house having been paid, for la*t year, the iteip.of special school tax is largely decreased. Wm. Cooper, a rockrooted Democrat, is the trustee. Although the net increase of his township taxes is “way up in G’' he too is too strong a Democrat to have knowingly made them high in the interests of a Republican conspiracy, and too intelligent to have been humbuggtd into doing it unknowingly. We give him credit for increasing his taxes because the increase was necessary, and take it for granted that even the Pilot gang will agree with us in this one instance, at least. Ia conclusion, we wou'd aik all fairminded men of all parties, who honestly desire to know the truth in this local tax matter, to read and study the above, to investigate the truth of our facts and figures and then they will understand how wholly false have been the assertions of the half-Democratio organ of the People’s party in regard to this question, and Jjow great the deception they are seeking to impose upon the people. Next week we shall just as thoroughly dispose of the matter of that alleged greatly increased balance in the county treasury. We shall also besdn to show how the new tax law affects the tax as of individuals, as this Wel-a w.. have shown how it affects the townships. L Forth© Campaign. For the purpose of helping along the good cause of Republican-