Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — The Ship Canal Again. [ARTICLE]

The Ship Canal Again.

Speaking for what we believe to be for the best interests of the people of Rensselaer, and without desire to help or hinder any particular individuals, The Republican is in favor of the purchase by the town of the electric light plant now here, on the terms that it has been offered at. Col. W. T. Dennis, formerly state fish commissioner, has issued a chart containing cuts and names of all the fish native of Indiana. The list is as follows: Rock bass, pickerel frog, stone catfish, Sacramento perch, largemouthed black bass, small-mouthed black bass, sun fish, pike, yellow bass, calico bass, white bass, yellow perch, brook trout, muska 1 longe, white perch croppie, wall-eyed, pike, Htlmazite, brook pickerel, the Warmouth longeared sun fish, blue sunjish and grayfish. L ed bravely. but also wisely, to preS ceed at once to build a new court house, aud to build a good one while they are building. At best, it could be only a matter of a few years before a nevt: one.,must be built, anyhow, and as money, fnaterial and labor are cheaper now than they will be in the “good

times coming,” in a year or two, then why not build now when we can save money by doing it, as well as be getting the benefit of it. The increase in the tax rate will be almost nominal. Only <>o cents a year on each SI,OOO assessed valuation, now, and five years from now not more than 30 or 40 cents on each SI,OOO. To any man with, the right measure of public spitit in him, the satisfaction he would ” bewKL-i tik no w i»gtb a t \e ty was as well fixed for a court house, as its neighboring counties, would alone be worth the slight increase in taxes, let alone the more substantial benefits we shall all derive from a new court house. A private individual or a corporation as greatly in ne£d of a new building and as free from debt and as well able to build it as Jasper county is a new court house, would b? very foolish, as all will admit, not build at once aud “get the good of it.” Aud why not apply the same common-sense reasoning to the new court house?

Be; phi,Times. Col. VVm. R. McLean, of Terre Haute, who secured the passage by the legislature, while- a member of the senate, of a joint resolution calling on congress To authorize a com mission to investigate of a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Walash river, will go to Washington iffa few days to press the matter. Senator Turpie introduced the bill in the last congress and it is understood the senate commerce committee would have reported favorably on the measure had it not been introduced at a late day. ; 'The senalor will again urge the passage of the bill. ' - -