The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-02-23
BEN AGAIN.
He is After the Man From
GOre--Criminality
Discussed.

valuable paper that u gentleman
from Gore Ohio, has been making
some remarks about good roads
and then calls upon Hillican Ber
to answer. would say 1t begin.
to look like Hillican Ben Is consid
cred all sorts of fellow, and con
versant with mems minds. l will
say in answer, that don't deal Ia
remnants nor second hand ideas
1t does appear in this case, that
If the public have formulated ans
right conceptions Of better roads
they suppress them. The writer
says, that, the farmers have nc
market in Logan. I did not say
they had, nor, strictly speaking,
never heard of farmers as q class
being merchants in Hooking Coun.
ty nor any other place. They are
producers. It is their province To
raise and get into market products
to realize anything out OF their la.
Dor, hence they must have a road,
and the better it Is, the more can
be put into market, In the tine oc-
cupied at a great saving of horse
flesh, and cost of repairs. I forgot
to mention the "Grange" store of
years ago in Logan. Yes, was 1t a
farmers market? If so, what kind
does my friend want? Something
like the Farmers Alliancen ware.
house? Please explain your posi-.
tion for we have no patience to be
used for bluff. am only a friend
ly advocate for the union of effort
to place Hooking County on the
high way to prosperity by getting
out of the old ruts.
The gentleman speaks about $780,.
900 or 100000 being levied to build
80 miles of pike. That would be-
too cheap for permanency. My
proposition as I intended it, was
100000, but by some typographical
error, it made 1t hard to UNDER
stand.
In the second place he proposes
that Hooking County build penal
institution, or work house to work
convicts fines and costs out on the
roads, as a feasible plan to get good
roads. BY this proposition, we are
led to think, that he regards Hook
ing County spontaneous place for
criminality and by some encourag-
ment render more fruitful and a
blessing to the people. suppose
then an evil under control is a good
in disguise. We will surely have
to have a lawyer now to formulate
law and call an extra session of
the Legislature. Ifit is an avail.
able means of getting good roads
at saving of public expense, why
not make the edict general and
turn the cOnvicts Of the Ohio Peni.
tentiary out upon the roads. 1t
might save the State from bank
ruptcy and revolutionize the old
time roads at "A dash. Has not
crime always been blot and a
dead expense to the county and
state and an incumbrance to the
tax payer? Why does my friend
want to put convict labor in com.
petition with honest day labor. 1t
viii be burthen for the tax payer
% bear, and for us to put off effort
md energy till we can get convicts
70 build 80 miles of pike Gabriel
Will blow his trumpet; at any rate
ct the inducement be ever so great
We should build no hopes on vice;
or many things bear bitter fruit of
experience in the past. l believe
ny friend entertains a wrong opin-
on of the legal and executive
'ranch OF the law, which in no way
concerns my position on good roads
therefore, / ask a lawyer to give a
'ood digest Of the probability of
he gentleman's theory.
Already two articles have ap.
'eared against Hlllican Ben that
ave been offered in antagonism
ither against Logan or supposed
buses or undue license of author.
" which in no way represents
pinions worthy of condemnation
that would tend to aid or stimu. |
'te enterprise. My proposition
'as not offered for the good and
rosperity of Logan only, to the {
auperizing Of Hooking County,
ut the common good of all. While
ogan might occupy the center of |
avantage, we would have good 8
Dads to intersect the roads of other {
'unties, 10 that, il we could do Il
etter in other markets, we could 4
IT to them; and we could force u 1
'mpetition for our products, and
'ofit thereby. 1t is also my the. "
y, that. as the people would F"
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