The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-08
WHITE MANS
BURDEN
You Can Bet Your Boots, His
Largest of Loads
Are the SO-CaIIed Highways, Our
Fearful Bad Roads.
Honest Work viii Redeem them,
Says PIOw Boy.

AsHcRAFT, KY, Feb. 81. 1S90.-To
BRECKENRIDGE News :-G see several cor
respondents in the BREcKENRDGE News
discussing the road question. l heartily
agree with some of them, especially in
regard to how the roa Is should be
worked. l am sure we could have better
roads il the overseers would use better
judgement in working them. 1 think
the Mooleyville correspondent suggested
a good idea when he advised supervisors
to work in the worst places first, and
work them we'll, If it takes the whole
number Of days he can COMPEL the
hands to work. Ole OF the reasons why
the roads are in no better condition is
because the supervisors take 80 little in
terest in trying to keep the roads in Or
der. If the handsjon the road will put
in six full days work each year, and
work as they do at home, there will not
be 30 much complaint about the roads
But the hands and supervisors both
think il they can get clear of fine that
is al! they seem to care for. OF course
there are some who are willing to work,
and do work, but vast majority don't
care whether they work or not. Now
the question is, how to remedy the evil ?
There is law compelling the overseers
to work the roads six days in the year If
the road is not in order. II the people
y i'll zee that the law is enforced, you
will see an improvement in the roads
But will we keep the roads in good
order by each hand working the road six
days in each year. think not. q, Under
the old law the supervisor could call out
the hands two days in EACH syear until
the road was in order. l think there
should he limit to how long man
should be compelled toIwork on the pub
lie highway. If the time was extended
to ten days in each year and the hands
work as they should, you would see bet
ter roads. There are other reasons why
the roads are no better worked than
they are: The County Judges are not
particular in appointing overseers. If
they will be careful in selecting men who
take pride in having good roads, it will
be great benefit and in few years the
people will begin to realize the necessity
of having better roads. don't know
how it is in Breckenridge county, but in
Meade we have roads that have not had
an overseer for year, yet we have asked
that supervisors be appointed, and still
we have none. Now If our roads get out
of order, who will be responsible We
are told by some we should have road
tax, land it is claimed that it is unjust for
the day laborer to have to work the road
in order that his more prosperous broth
er might be able to haul his produce
to market. 1t does look little unjust,
but it seems impossible to make a law
that is just to everybody. In reply to
this the man of means meets this argl-
ment by saying it is unfair for him to
pay school tax and his poor neighbor
to derive the benefit from it So it is i'm.
possible to frame law that bears alike
on all, but there is Que thing we can and
ought to do and that is to repeal the
present law in regard to finding Super
visors. If the road gets out of order, let
some good citizen indict him in the grand
jury and make him pay for it, and next
time he will take more pains in working
the road. Under the present law he has
to @ before the County Judge, and the
supervisor knows who he is, and it
makes 4nemys, when If it is taken to the
grand Jury, he never would know who
did it. have not heard OF a single
overseer being fined since the old law
was repealed. So let the next legisla-
ture extend the time to ten days in each
year; repeal the present law in regard
to how we shall proceed to find the over
seer, make it inditable through the grand
jury for a supervisor to let his road get in
bad order and then let the people see
that the law is enforced and there will
be better roads.
PLow Boy.
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