Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-02

pOltlcs INTO the meeting, ana favoTing
good roads.
w. ID. Jenkins said thatif party poll
tics had been introduced, Mr.. Adams
alone was responsible for it, And
then Mr.. ReinhaTt came to Jenkins
rescue by remarking that the mere fact
of Adams opposition to the amend
ment was ground for grave suspicion.
1t was evidence of dog in the manger.
The county commissioners had adj
mItted that they had already exceeded
the limits of Indebtedness. Adams,
after inquirIng of Mr.. Gillette if the
county could be bonded before 1884,
and receiving IA negative answer, re-
marked that there was not much dan.
ger of wreCking the county before that
date, as Mr.. Reinhart had insnuated.
+. NJ. Downe thought that the
brethren present didn't understand
what they were voting upon, and the
resolution and Jenkins amendment
were again read, but il seems that the
brethren were posted since the amend
ment was adopted 10y vote of - to IS.
Then Judge Galley arose; he wanted
to know when these roads were TO be
built and where they were to he To-
cated2 Were they to benefit the few
or the many, and what kind of roads
we're they to be anyhow, clay, gravel
or pIank2 Ine question of durability
was OF prime importance, The Judge
remarked M he sat down that he believed
In every Kind Of road except the road TO
ruin, but before he voted for roa;1s. he
wanted to know what kind he was
voting for. Then Chairman Gray ex-
planned the law, or tried to, and Judge
Galley interpolated remark TO the
effect that he would not build "A rond TO
save n mans life unless he knew what
kind Of road they were going to build,
and then the Judge referred TO the
Lynden motor line, the steel road
and the road to eternity,and wound up
10y saying that he was opposed 10 any
road that would necessltate bonding
the county. Then Secretary Jonones
wearily arose aud said: The whole dis
cus@ion is one of educrtion; there Is no
proposition for bonds or style of roads
before the meeting Let us first ascer-
tain what our business Is i'm this matter.
The county commissioners are our SER
wants, and every possible safeguard Is
provided the people by the law. Rein
hart interrupted to move an adjourn
ment, but his motion found no sec
onder and Jones continuing said that
the gold proposition cut no figure, and
he eXhorted them TO come up like
"white men and say you want ronds."
Jenkins hoped that the resolution
would he adopted, now that the gold
was settled; he vas i'm favor
of good roads, etc.
;. ID. Reinhart returned 10 the charge.
He repclled what he was pleased to call
A a - tt,l 4
created all the obstruction, and he in
formed Mr.. Adams and those present
that there were no more intelligent
class Of people than the farmers, and
there were even many of them who
could write "A much better editorial than
many of the editors of the Bay. No
body disagreed with Nr. Reinhart on
he latter proposition./
w. b. Leitch made j. sensible speech,
'aying among other things that in view
1f the small number present, any action
would be premature.
There were number Of other pointed
speeches, but the speech Of the whole
perhaps, was made by j
Lopas, of Mountain View.
He scored the farmers inactivity In
The matter Of building roads aud relat-
ed his own experience in the matter.
When he asked help no one was ready
to help him, and he said they reminded
him of the people i'm the scriptures, in
as when roads were TO I've built,
one had his oats to gather, i'm another
his hogs TO kill, etc. and in the mean
time they were content TO wade knee
deep in mud. He had all along op-
posed bonds, but now he was for them.
T. q. Nicklin followed in pertinent
speech, and he suggested that as the
Bay paid 80 per cent. of taxes it might
not he amiss for the citizens To have
to say, but the populists
had gathered In the meeting and when
the sage Of Ten Mile again arose TO
speak, the audience, which numbered
sixty souls all told, arose almost TO
man and made for the door, aud the
road convention adjouned-without
motion.