Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-10-29
STONE ROADS AGAIN.

sue and also the signal, the reopening of the
Stone Road question, allow me through your
columns TO heartily endorse stone, gravel, OF
turnpike roads in any locality of the county
under any law that will tax the persons and
property adjacent thereto. where the people
of that locality may desire, and petition for
such improvements at the expense Of those
desiring the benefit therefrom by the con-
venience and use of same, and enhancement
in price of the property in said locality by
such improvement. And any other PROPOSE
tion that demands money from one extreme
part of the county to build roads in an oppo-
site extreme portion twenty or thirty miles
distant without the consent of these extreme
portions, is undemocratic and unrepublican.
For example, under the Norton law men,
toned, urging immediate action let MS sup
pose that these advocates are residents Of
Washinnton township in the little town of
Texas, and through their manipulation and
influence over the Commissioners of the
county, stone road shonld be built from
Cotton to Texas for the special interest and
accommodation of the people of that locali-
ty, costing several thousand dollars per mile
and taxing the whole county to pay the cost for
the benefit of the few who would travel it and
whose property only would be enhanced by
such improvement, will any fair minded man
say that the people of Bartlow, Damascus,
Harrison, or any other remote territory who
would never travel it once in life time, nor
their property in the least enhanced by such
local road, should be taxed to pay for the
same? Would not Justice and ecquity de-
mdnd that the people who are to receive all
the benefits derived therefrom should pay the
costg Is not this example equally applicable
to any and every other locality of the county?
Let Echo answer.
In further discussion of this momentous
question, allow the writer to reflect the minds
of the people generally, that these special ad-
vocates who are clamoring for stone roads in
their special locality as designed by the Nor
ton law as shown on its original face, and
only modified by amendment to appear more
harmless and cover its deformity, would be
among the first to discover the inequality of
the law, and its execution were it to be ap-
piled in the foregoing locality described
herein, or remote points where the few would
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