Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-10-19
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OF the Good Roads Club to the
People.
Free Turnpikes on Every Road
and The Attendant Blessings
to be Derived.


The Good Roads Club of your
county, in common with the pro-
gressive people throughout the
United States, are desirous of i'm
proving the public highways of
Christian county, and above all
things to make them in their i'm
proved condition, absolutely free of
toll. 1t is useless to call your at
tention to the fact that in every
community those people who are
desirous of keeping pace, not only
with enlightenment, but W tn civil
zatiou, are devising plans by which
this object can be accomplished as
economically as possible, with as
little taxation as possible, and
having in view the rights of all the
people, and the betterment of their
condition, no matter in what Sec
tion of the community, geographic
cally speaking, they may reside.
We hold and maintain that the
present system by which toll is al
lowed to be required of the people
on some of our road-ways, and on
the other the use of scrapers and
other temporary Improvements are
employed, is not only unjust to the
people, but an absolute squander-
ing upon their part of money which
would build, equip and maintain
magnificent system of public
thoroughfares absolutely free of
cost to the traveller. For these
reasons we have secured from the
Fiscal court of your county, the
right to submit to you at the coming
election a proposition to vote bonds
for these,purposes.
Under the constitution, only a |
certain amount can be issued by |
the Fiscal Court and in Christian Co.
the amount of bonds and availa-
bic is from ninety to one-hundred
thousand dollars. We have made
careful estimation and we find that |
with this amount in bonds, the saw
ing by the fiscal covnt on the levy
Of this year and next, that said
court would have at it's disposal a
sufficient sum to parchase and
make free every mile of pike now in
the county and at the same time
build an equal amount of new pike
on throughfares not thus favored.
And we propose and we so stated
at the time we presented this mat
ter to the fiscal court that said
body should, whenever they pur-
chase any number of miles of pike
rom the owners thereof, that they
should at the same time, let the con-
-ract for an equal number of miles
ot new pike on roads which are not
now macadamized. In brief our
purpose is to have the money in
rested, equally distributed on every
-oad North, South, East and West,
being built on the roads
lot now piked, and acquired on
arrest terms where tollgates now
,Xist,
And now upon the question of
aXation to accomplish all that we
contemplate would only involve at
he very uttermost, under the Con.
stitution, an increase of seven and
half az cents on the one
hundred dollars worth of property.
The man who only pays poll tax
would not have to pay one cent;
he man who pays on five hundred
iollars would only pay thirty-tve
,.35) cents per anum, and the man
who lists for taxation a thousand
dollars worth of property would
'nly pay seventy-fye cents (.75) |
Der anum. And for this, we could
secure a magnificent system of
urn-pikes North, East, West and
south, and could travel them with
that they were abb
'olutely free OF toll and that the
title vested in the people who
:ould transmit it to posterity as
| blessed heritage! Won't You
Help Us?