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

— 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