Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-11-19

meme, tekel, uphsrsin.V Certainly
If the Ansthemas and Msrsnathas l
have heard heaped on the heads of
of some of them are any indication,
il will be useless for them to even
offer again for any Office. l have
heard of several political aspirants 80
eager to defeat the bridges that when
they couldn't get voters at the polls
to vote squarely against issuing bonds,
compromised by voting with them to
issue bonds for free bridges, think
ing they would be throwing their
votes away, when 1t was so plain
that "a wsy-fsring man, though a
fool, could not err therein" that the
man who voted to issue bonds for
free bridges wanted the bridges worse
than the fellow who voted for toll
bridges. They tried 20 trap voters
and got caught in trap that was
set like the old nigger's trap to catch
coon or fool both a gwine and
a comm. Good they ought to have
been caught.
There are all sorts of rumors shost
that further obstruction will be put
in the way of building the bridges,
that "the Supervisors are working
against them," that "the cost will be
double the estimate" that "the pee
pie in one township are being arrayed
against the other" and the thunder
knows what all. No true progress
ever went on that did not have to
contend for every inch & the ground.
1t is sometimes best for it to be so.
But my impression is that as the REQ
pie have spoken in such uuequivocal
terms the pessimists and little
o5structionist had better stand aside,
or they too will most assuredly be run
over.
And now, Mr.. Editor, let the good
work go on. Both you and Senator
Gold ought not only to DO what is
necessary to push the bridges to COM
pletion as soon as possible, but TAX
ing the progressive ideas so recently
expressed by the people as your
guide, press the road question also
before the Legislature to such an
extent that we may have such laws
that will insure to our county in a
reasonable time the very best Of roads.
If you do you will not only get the
thanks and gratitude of your constit-
uents, but future generations yet un-
born will rise up and call you blessed.
cannot see for the life of me
why my friend Price or any one else
could say Bridges versus Roads,"
when they are virtually the same thing
and mutually dependent one upon the
other, or why any one should try to
array one part of the county against
the other, when we are all one and
ought to feel deeply interested in
each other in order to true progress.
If you will kindly permit me to |
will throw out few crude ideas in
reference to roads that have pressed
themselves upon me for long time.
First-Get the State to turn over
her interest in the turnpikes (Which
have been virtually worth nothing to
the State) to the county, with the
distinct understanding that the
county keep them in good order.
Second-Remove all dead heads
and sapsuckers of every description
from the pixies. Let the masses stop
paying tribute to the cliques and
classes; pay every one for the service
he renders to the pixies, and make
Everyone who gets any good from
them pay what it is worth; and work
them on business principles with i'm
proved machinery.
Third-Push back the toll gates
from the very edge of the town, which
have been choking for years the life
out of Berryville and gnawing at its
very vitals, sufficiently far at least to
allow the people who come to the
very corporation limits on dirt roads
to come into town without paying
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