The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-24
publican party is not responsible for the

singular how it tears into the Independ-
ents. The Tribune has awakened to the
fact that the Republican party is the
only one that ever did any investigation
in its own ranks, and the only one that
ever punished its own thieves Itreally
seemed to feel good over the Republican
triumph in the Granite State, and read
more as it used 70 before Horace Greeley
would not be singular if the Tribune
should get back into the Republican
fold, and be IL power in the party once
more pIETRO
ED. JEFF. Free turnpike roads are Il
nice thing, | am willing 10 admit, and if
they could be built a. cheap in this
county as i'll Union, or even ia Hardin
county, |, for one, would not hesitate to
make the trial. But on account of the
scarcity of material 10 build such roads,
the cost of stone roads would be very
great, especially in the north and north
west parts of the county.
Mr.. Ezra Brown takes the most COM
mon sense view of the subject that l
have read yet; and lie i making many
friends in this part OF il;e county by his
fair dealing with the matter. ''If all
the property owners in the county are
to be taxed to build pixies, then make
all the roads into pixies, which would
make about four hundred miles in all
of such roads to be built, and would
cost in the aggregate over million of
dollars" Now, this is putting the ques-
ton in such way that people can see
what they are expected to do, if they
vote for such improvement. But others
that lave written on this subject call
this fallacious reasoning, and go on to
say that the people are only to be taxed
two mills ON the dollar, and that they
can pay it and not feel it, and every land
owner in the county will be benefited
by such roads to the amount of five to
twenty dollars per acre. Now, l would
rather call this fallacious reasoning, for
by this easy way of presenting the mat
ter, they would try to draw men into
the largest amount of tax Gn the end)
that they ever paid for public improve
mements of any kind. Yes, will ven-
ture to say that all other public i'm
provements, made in the county, will
not cost as much as to convert our mud
roads into stone roads. But one writer
on this subject says: Stop building
bridges, school houses, and if need be,
every other improvement, and build
stone roads. Now this will not be done;
for there are those that are just as clam
orous for these improvements as any one
can be for stone roads, and they will be
most likely to get them. The last Grand
Jury we had recommended the building
of new Jail. And so it goes. Truly,
we are atax-ridden people.
But another of the advocates of free
pixies says Zone hundred miles of such
roads would be all that this county
would need" Now there are eight lead
ing roads to and from Findlay, viz. =
The Van Buren, Arcadia, eft. Blanchard,
Arlington, Lima, McComb and Benton
roads, and the one leading East from
town. Each of these roads would claim
an equal share of improvement, so that
al al, Of .
all that would be built, $50 predict, for
that would suit the people of Findlay, |
and those living within twelve miles of !
town, and the more distant portions of !
the county would be left out in the mud. |
This is the view that was taken of the |
matter, two years ago, when the people |
were CALLED on to vote on the question |
Of Pixies or no Pixies. And the result of |
that election shows that Findiay town
ship, and few scattering votes in Eagle,
and Marion, were about all that |
voted yes. In this township Portage) |
,nly one vote was given in favor of |
pixies, and that man had q few loads of |
stone to sell.
The only way to build such roads is
by townships, the same as our other
'oads aFe.made, Tor as they are not made,
( you choose to have it Sc then people
will have an opportunity of knowing ;
where their money is expended, and that
hey will get some benefit from it,
MUD.