The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-05-03

connected with its management anu
disbursement" The county commits
sioners fix the compensation OF the
road commission and the commissions
OF the county treasurer. Why, as q
member of the board, did he not tell
the people what he would vote for as
compensation to the road commits
sioners and the county treasurer?
Squire Allen ought to know his own
mind. if he knows anything. Does
he know it? n these two matters the
people wish to hear from him; ana
yet he is as dumb as an oyster.
Squire Allen says: "Then your
bond money will be exhausted, your
road law repealed no mnoey, no law
to raise money to build roads until
authorized by the legislature to levy.
special tax for road building" What
does he mean? What does he mean
by "your road law repealed?" When
was It repealed? The bond act, II
ratified, takes the management OF the
roads from the county commission
ers-4does this repeal to the road law?
Is this the milk In the cocoanut? Is
this the secret of Squire Aliens oppo-
sitions? Is he unwilling ITO turn
loose?"
Again Squire Allen says: MA
cadamizing is slow work" and that
now one of the two crushers Is idle?
How can he make good his promise
to build 10 or IL miles year? Why
Is macadamizing slow work? Is 1t be-
cause there are not rock enough?
This is not the reason. If Squire Al.
len was speaking from the record,
why did he not tell the people that ne
would not allow the farmers to haul
rock to the graded roads until the
crushers were there? Why did he
not tell them that when the grading
, on the Chapel Hill road was nearly
, completed there was not a pound o.
y rock hauled to the road to be crushed
Does he expect farmers to quit theil
farms and farm work to haul rock
e Why don't he let them haul when the!
:. can do so at convenient seasons
d Does any sensible man pretend tina
J. the macadamizing cannot be pushes
o faster? and that grading cannot b
)! faster?
n Again, Squire Allen complains tina
IL the bonds are issued. the count
!. win pay interest on them at 41s pc
d cent per year for 80 years. Does nc
n Squire Allen know that he, as men
r. Der of the board of commissioner
e has the power under the bond act, I
e divide the bonds into series and n
1t the time the bonds are to run? II b
8 does not, let him read the act Ii
W him go to the record. Why doe
D. Squire Allen object to spending tn
a money of the stranger at AZ per Ger
r. when he Is spending the money
e every tax payer in the county that
y worth to him per cent? And b
:? proposes to take more Of this 6 pe
ID cent money, and to get 1t by an !;
y crease of valuation of property OF
1t per cent. I prefer bonds this kind
ie financiering.
lie Again. Squire Allen states Eve hav
~ in the county $50 miles Of publ
n roads"
IN challenge the correctness OF tn
n. statement. Where does he get tn
TO information? Certainly not from pc
d sonal knowledge. How long will
r. take the county to macadamize the
Is roads at the present rate? Takir
IA Squire Aliens own statement. let I
re see. ~ years to build IS miles Gar
p. this much has not been built max
We 7Ik miles a year. Deduct IS fro
lis $50, the remainder now unmacad
Is mixed Is 1875 miles. divide by IA. Il
We quotent Is 6s 1-3 years All Of
l. will be dead and forgotten: and
ne these years the sheriff will be collet
u. ing taxes to build good roads fro
he our children, and children's childr'
OF TO the third and fourth generatio
by And yet Squire Allen objects TO
an 20 or 30 year bond. Ny. my, my.
OF Don't Squire Allen hate bad ITO tn
" loose"
lip J. s. MANNING.