The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-07-27
HE NEWsHERALD HILLsBoRo. THURSDAY IuLY, 81 1905
The Good Road Prop posltion.

The press of the country In all direc.
tions Is urging attention to the ques.
tion Of national aid to good roads.
The proposition as embodied in the
Brownlow.Latimer bills has now been
under discussion long enough to be
we'll understood, and the demand for
its adoption a. a national policy is
growing in every quarter. The first
of these bills was introduced In the
House by Hon. W. p. Brownlow, of
Tennessee, and the other In the Sen.
ate by Hon. A. o. Latimer, of South
Carolina. The bills are practically
the same, both seeking to bring in the
the United States as a cooperative
factor In the systematic construction
and improvement of the highways,
the government to supply sum equal
to the sum any State will supply up to
the maximum provided for. In a
speech In Congress on his bill Repre-.
sentative Brownlow declared that a
general plan Of cooperation would
have to be resorted to In order to
fairly distribute the burden Of taxa
tion necessary to adequately improve
the highways; and added this force.
full point:
$50 long as we pursue the original
method Of taxation the entire burden
Of cost for highway improvement falls
upon the owners of agricultural lands
and the persons living in the rural
districts. When the great mass of
the people lived in the rural districts
this was just and equitable distribu.
tion of taxes for such purposes, but
with the changed conditions of the
present day, when one.half Of the
people live In cities, and much more
than one.half of the wealth IL con.
centrated in these cities and in the
corporations that are 20 powerful at
the present time, IL 10 absolutely nee.
essary that some means should be de.
vised whereby the revenues requisite
for the greet improvement that 10
called for should be derived from all
of the people and resources of the
country a. nearly a. possible, and not
rest, az heretofore, upon the farming
classes, who are the immediate losers
by every failure of crops and sufferers
BY every decline in price of agricul-
t,,ra1 nr0f,1ctav
About one.third of our people bear
the total cost of the construction and
improvement of the country districts,
who constitute the mud.sill upon which
is built the political and Industrial
development which 10 our boast. To
them, In = larger degree than any
other class, We owe the magnitude of
the position to which We have attained
along all lines. q Upon them the heavy
hand of taxation falls relentlessly
They never dodge the taxgather, but
bear the largest proportion of the
burdens of government and receive
the smallest of its benefits. It is an
unjust and unequal distribution of
the burdens and bene6ts of govern.
ment, and It Ia to c0rrecc in a measure
these inequalities and hardships that
the bills under discussion are being
urged BY the people everywhere.
Senate Document No. 204, !, Fifty. Eighth
Congress, I'd session, is a compendium
that ought to be In the hands of every
citizen, and 1t can be had by writing
to your U. 8. Senator and asking for
IT, We are authorized IN aav tha Z
Representative Brownlow will be glad
to send a copy of his bill to any one
writing for 1t.