Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1869 — From Carpenter Township. [ARTICLE]

From Carpenter Township.

it»*.**»?f C'AUi’KKTEit Township, July 3d, IHUO. 'i*v» Jfr-ssr** Eiwroas: T prfsnmf “Justice* has made you believe that everybody in the “suburbs” are opposed to 'tho railroad tax, but is uot t men out here who can see more than an inch before their noses, and they look at the matter this wav: A road from Attica and the Cl#y> ' Vitality oottt fitlneu is only a questime. At present the probabilities are strongly in favor of tioodlarrrt securing* that road, bemuse mw that is its natnral route; U*> if the Indianapolis, Delphi A ' road is bwilt, the wntitral unite of the Attica road would! be rhroUcTi Remington and intersect the f>. AC. road at Rensselaer, because that would save the build Iftg 7*f highly niites. *ri, Some argue that a road to RensseUei would ruin Remington; this

is a niisUku. If Remington paid as much for grain -as Hews seiner did (and.with ite excellent'Toledo and Eastern connections it oortainly could,) w« would have the trade half way to your place and wonld still retain our share of the great prairie south of ua; V>* le£ a road he built north and south through flood land, giving that town cross roads and freights, Anjl corner lots iu Remlngtoa can be r bought for forty dollars an acre and used for calf past urns., f Thq Goodland people are not aslieep ami if they get cross roads, one to Chicago aqd .onp tp they will have so innetflowteil rate# that 'they will gobble up Remington in one year; but if we can have the 1., D. £ C. railroad to Rensselaer, we secure the Attica road to Remington {when it is built, tt>r it will naturally seek the shortest route, . and by /until ng tA lldnsselnef thbV save the construction of not less than one-half the line from Attica to Crown Point—pml tints we instead ofGoodlund seOui« roads, and this tor* without liijijfing ourselves in the least and at the same time help build up the county. { But tliere is another thing <Floolt at, it is this: Our land here is appraised higher than yours, consequently we have to p»ymorc taxes than yop » bui,t your I." Aid will nc nppralstm higher uSL KWftDP.“i*|lEflSi that way we will get back in a few years all the taxes that road costs lis. But there is still another reason: Our road has no competition, con-* wequently it frequently charges ex-i' horbltartt rafes. When y»ur m*a<f is built there will be competition and in this way we would derive benefit. In fact I can't look at this matter front Aju’ jjojiit .of, view bob wliai it will be »n advantage to ns even here, to more than the amount it will cost ns. Some of the business men in Remington axe opposed to it, but' why- I Ao not know, it mtast be qither because'they distrust their own business capacities and are afraid to compete with your merchants when placed upon an equality, or else tliey are mistaken in the natural results from the proposed road. People Will trade ana sell their produce where they can do best*. |Nqw tfifur mcr*haOM think they can’t compete with youth, *itiw their interest.to oppose it, but the same reason makes it the intcrest of everybody else lure to favWr^ TWOS* ‘are my views,* gWtleimsti, and if von think they are worfh anything you mav publish this.