Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1874 — The New Paper. [ARTICLE]

The New Paper.

Besides other devilment instigated by tlie Ring last Saturday, they made arrangements to send their emissaries out among the people to secure a sufficient number of subscribers to induce Charley Johnson to bring his office over from Remington and conduct a paper at this place in tlie interest of that political band which is responsible for the Credit Mobilier swindles, the Custom House. Moiety swindles, the District of Columbia Contract swindles, the Back Pay Salary Grab swindle of Congressmen winter before last, that has never been recovered ; the extravagant, princely salary of the President now amounting to $l6O for every working day in the year, or sl6 an hour ; to ujiliold the political party*wliich iu Indiana after being elected to power ou a platform of retrenchment increased the salaries of members of the legislature sixty per cent., increased tlie rate of State taxes two hundred per cent, and at the same time nearly doubled its basis of assessment: and to keep in power in Jasper county a Ring whose policy of conducting public business places it among the high-taxed localities in the State of Indiana. There is fio need of taxes being so high as they are in tjie State; there is no need of taxes being so high in Jasper county; there is no good reason for business being so dull, times so hard, and money so scarce all over the West. The whole of it results from mismanagement of public' affairs, the incompetence and extravagance of our public officers, and the crushing, ruining policy of National legislation which is to clirich bankers, transportation companies both land and,marine, and manufacturing monopolies, at the expense of small tradesmen, mechanics, laborers and farmers. The West will never be as prosperous as it should be until there is a radical change in the National revenue policy ; the people of Indiana need not expect retrenchment of their State taxes if they elect Salary Grabbers to their Legislature; and the citizens of Jasper co’uhty need never expect to have their local affairs managed with economy by a Ring whose cohesive attraction is the spoil of the Court House. v| . But we have diverged from our subject. AVhat we mean to say, is,, Charley Johnson is a first-rate, enter* prising, good-hearted fellow, who no doubt will publish* an acceptible pa- : per for tlie party that patronizes him ; and as it will add to tlie population wealth and industries of the place, i wc hope our friends and readers will | give him liberal encouragement.