Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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 >