Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — The Remington Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

The Remington Resolutions.

In oar issue this week will be found the proceedings of a public meeting held at Remington last Saturday. Among other prooeod* iiig*, the meeting passed Imp un-1 necessary and inconsistent resolutions, which prove that men under excitement are sometimes indiscreet. „U<ey first resolve that although they believe tho law providing (6r public taxation for the benefit of railroad enterprises “to be wrong in principle, yet as law-abieT ing people they will submit to its requirements when there is a practical demand for their application,” and immediately in t.ho next resolution they denounce the late Board of County Commissioners for complying with the requirements of the law by assessing-the tax, wAftt there tea* u practical demand for their up}>iu<tiion, made by a majority of die peoplo of the county voting at a legal election for that purpose.

js The people of Remington, Car* per.ur tow nship, or any other porof the county, may, if they 6ec proper, let the tax assessed against their property for railroad purposes become delinquent; but this can bo oceomphshed just as effectually by each individual, without any fuss, and a good deal cheaper—unless ostentation is desired—than by calling public meetiugs and passing resolutions unjustly denouncing innocent parties. The late Board of Commissioners, as commissioners, are not responsible for the railroad tax, but the responsibility rests with the legislature of 1808-9 that enacted the law providing for the tax, and with the people of Jasper county who indorsed the law by voting under its provisions and thus levied the tax upon themselves.

Several appeals have already been taken under this act, embracing all its practical bearings, and one decision of the Supreme Court will settle the question for the whole State, so that it is not to da anything further in Vue matter, particularly as the cases now on the docket will be reached and decided before any case now appealed could be heard, so that as a measure of economy it is better to wait patiently the decision of the judges on the eases before them than to rush into further litigation of tho, subject. There aro always noisy fellows to be found ready to stir up strife about anything aud everything, good, bad or indifferent, provided (there is a possiblo chance for a little cheap notoriety and somebody -else w ill foot the bill, but prudent pewjde will wait the experiments of thoss who are fond of eliminating science through these agent s.

So far as the tax is eooccrnen the result will be: If the Supreme Court decides the law under which it was levied to be unconstitutional, it will hoc he collected from those who do net now pay it; but if the court bolds that the law is constitutional, then the railroad tax will ü be collected in all respects the same as other taxes are collected for state and ccncty purposes.” The lollowing resolution' was adopted in the State senate last Friday by a Vote of 37 to 3: r “JRetolvcd, That the Committee ‘On Flights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of the State arc requested to report, at an early day, upon the power and propriety of tlie legislature submitting by law, the question of female suffrage to a vote of the women of the State nnd the passage of an amendment _to the State constitution giving Mich rights of suffrage when approved by a majority of the women voting at such election.” Either the democracy arc fooling the ‘‘women suffrage” leaders of •this State, or they have concluded to make one step forward in human progress. We guess they are “just fooling round.” Jlr. Jared Benjamin has shown ns a letter recently written by Hr. Greene, President of the New York Western Bail way, in which he says the prospects of that enterprise are very flattering and that work will be commenced in the spring at several point* along the line. . ’ The war between France and Prussia fs rapidly drawing to a close. The surrender of Paris with its entire force of defenders is already reported. It this be true the war ia virtually at an end, for outside of Parts the French have no armies capable of offering any effective resistance td the Pros* Viaim.