Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1873 — One Reason for High Taxes. [ARTICLE]

One Reason for High Taxes.

Hon. Jasper P at- ka nl’s attention is rbspectiiilly called to the interesting resolutions adopted by Patrons of Husbandry, at recent meetings in this and Porter counties, which are published in soother Column. _ j, Hon. R. S. 1) wiggins returned fYbin New York City Monday evening and reports that it is impossible ‘for the Continental railroad company to procure money to complete their enterprise so long as the present extraordinary stringency • continues. The projects of the company are anything but flattering for an early resumption of work. It has a largo indebted ness ■which it is-not prepared to pay and the officers do not bold out any encouragement Join its liquids turn* .. . Hr. C. D. Delaney, of Buffalo, N. \who is at present visiting relatives in llnn.-Cacr, dropped into our office a few minutes last, evening.—lie spent the winter pastin New Orleans and reports a deplorable condition of affairs grO\ying out of the political imbroglio in Louisiana. Business Is stagnant, hundreds of vacant houses are “to let” >u the large towns, and people hi o in a state ol intense excitement that is liable to violent outbreaks at any moment. Both the --and, Ke 1 i ogg_parti sai,s-opmd-y- ■ i aJiiit to have tu-Fn'giiiTPv oT~gro¥s~ frauds in the elections last fail, but as yet they can agree upon no terms of <:onn>roiiiise. Mr. Delaney thinks that the only practicable s'olution of the snarl is to have a ;-jma,_t!fectirTO-ri r.l eiod- nrtder-TlrtFsTtF P ervision of d isilitirri'fitiil piersons appointed by thy. Federal Govern-, meat for that purpose.

Wc desire to say to t he editorsof the JiRNSSEL.\i;irt'M, >? that we regrcFTo' learn that they have Republican officers in Jasper county who are thieves ami leek less and ox travail t men, and that I bey: have been Instrumental in making “taxes lifelifcr in 1 Jasper county• where. there* -has lint been a Deinoeratiet’eniuiissioner in sixteen years.” NVe regret exceedingly to hear this of itepubliean eonnty officers, and as the only remedy, we suggest that the l Nto.v, and ail tile Republicans of Jasper county go to work at-the next election anti elect Democrats in their stead. Try that plan as an experiment for two or four years, and if, in that time, the county has not been transferred to Illinois, stolen bodily, and sold to the highest bidder, and'if there are one hundred men left With means lo buy. the necessaries of life, and if the Union lias not died of .starvation and takes, and if the 7 schools are not all closed, and if the! oilier usual results of electing Democratic officers have not followed, we advise that they be continued in Office. And bv all means see that t hey strictly enforce tiie new Assessment Daw.—Anderson Herald. from the Herald's flagitious misrepresentation of our comments upon Ligh taxes, weare led lo think still less than pver oi its editor as a politician. We said nothing by v, liich Mr. John O. Hardesty or anyone else could reasonably infer that “Republican officers in Jasper county are thieves, and reckless and extravagant men”—nothing whatever of that sort did we intimate, as lie is sharp emAgh to know; but we did say, and again repeat,, that “taxes are high in Jasper county where there has not been a Democratic commissioner in sixteen years, and tile only reason - we can find for it is that Republican officers have somewhere lacked sound judgment in the management of public finances.” Those Republican officers,however, were not commissioners of Jasper county, for the same complaint is hoard more or less all over the State —in Madison, in in Marion—everywliere; but they were men who had been elected to look after the interests of the State, hence the universal effects of their mismanagement.

L nlcss tin: Republican party can find candidates for the legislature who are too honest to raise their own pay three-fifths at one swoop, in evasion of the State constitution, and at a time too when their pay is adequate for the services rendered; and unless they can find men for the legislature Vho have business judgment enough when they enact that properly in the State shall be listed at from two to four —times its former value——at a time when the State is reported out of debt and no •public improvements arc in process of construction—to make a corresponding decrease m the levy; unless they can find men of more honesty and better judgment than a majority ot the last aad previous legislatures, the people will find that they must either repudiate such nominations, or pay higher taxes eyen than they now pay. What with Credit Mobilier revelations, and Corfgressional and Legislative pay grabbers, it would seem to be almost time to succeed Republican and Democratic members of Congress and State legislatures with capable and houc«t men.