Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-27
J. w. RoMAINE, Secretary nan maui
FOR BONDING rae COUNTY


EDITOR HERALD: We need good
roads. Every prosperous county has
good roads. If 100000 of foreign
money is paid out in Whatcom county
on roads that money finds its way
back into the banks and is loaned out
at least five times before it leaves the
county. 1t does S2,OO0,0OO worth of
business in that time. The borrower
OF the money eXpends it i'm all kinds of
improvements and developments that
would increase the valuation of the
property in the county 10 per cent. or
S2,OOO,OOO on $20,OO00O0 In twenty
years our profits by borrowing SiOO. 900
would be 81 5000 Besides il would
make a demand for all our idle labor
ers and for the produce the farmer
raises, at his very door. The stranger
looking for home will readily buv
one and the mossback, the kicker who
has farm and does not want roads
can have chance TO sell and move
back into the interior beyond progress
and be neighbOr to the dusky gentle
men and ladies Of the forest who love
to move around in the mud. We can-
not have good times unless we have
foreign money. We haven't got il at
home and it won't grow on the bushes.
II we do not borrow it we will not
nave any improvements and the
county will stand still like it did for
IWenty-seven years before the railroad
era, when the mossbacks were i'm their
glory and reigned supreme.
Some object TO voting for the bonds
Tor lear some one connected with let
tng the contracts and handling the
money Will naturally ram some of il
IN his pockets. Well, if we wait TO
avoid that we will always wait. for
some one is always Of that opinion i'm
every public enterprise and will trust
no one. Others think they will have
a lttle more taxes to pay. But they
do not consider that the property tbey
pay taxes on has advanced in price ten
times more than the taxes they pav. !
This kind Of people should move out
with the mossbacks in the rural dis |
tricts and mingle with the citizens of !
the forest | hope all those people who |
like to crawl around i'm the mud and |
travel over trails and corduroy roads |
viii vote against the bonds, and that |
all the good, generous, high spirited |
go-ahead, progressive citzens, either |
gentlemen or ladies, will use their in /
huence against the mossbacks and |
and vote for the bonds /
and have good roads,
i pay from $500 to 81 900 per wear
taxes i'm the county and am willing to
pay more to have good roads, because / /
will get 1t all back in the advance price
OF my property. If we get no good /
plank or turnpike or macadamized |
roads have lost that money because
my property does not advance. But
the worst Of it all is that these mud
roads cause the people that are COM
PEELED TO drive over them to swear and
cuss themselves into purgatOry. Per-
haps they will aOt have to give an ac-
count on the last day for those cursings
but they will have sore heads and sore
bodies for number Of days.
When Abraham Lincoln was presi-
dent delegation from California called
on him and told him the people that
had charge of the onion Pacific and
Central Pacific railroad, then building.
were robbing the government. The
president thought moment and then
said, "let them steal all they can. If
they only go ahead and build the road
and unite the Atlantic and Pacific by
rail and save the uniOn.v / think II
would be good idea for us to let all
the manipulators here steal all they
can If they only 90 ahead and build
the roads and save the county from
/. n. ORcHARD.
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