Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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