The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-17
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Editor of The Times. Dispatch;
slr,--Vill you kindly give me space
in your valuable paper 70 MAKE N,Rnn a i h,S,
No. 106. which was published IN your
paper few days ago. and IN extract
or which was also pnblishre, aur ~ our
town paper, the Baskss sanat Gou MI No.
| lo6, provides that any person, company
or corporation. damaging any road or
bridge by hauling logs or sawmiii TIN I'M
Der over H.. and shal, not repa't the
notified TO do so by the proper road
! authority or by any member OF the
board OF supervisors OF the county,
there shall be a fine OF from wv 10 sioe,
or Imprisonment not exceeding thirty
days, or may avoid the prosecution by
paying damage assessed by the Board
OF Supervisors.
feel sure that Judge Mann did not
realize the inconsistency and serious
ness of such a law. For at glance
one can see 1t Is class legislation;
therefore unconstitutional ana unjust:
While regard the greater portion OF
this bill as ridiculous. there Is part
of 1t regard as insulting to all inteiii-
gent public. From my early childhood
TO the present, have been taught
that the public road was free, and
that even he<who had not where to lay
his head found a home in the public
roads of Virginia, 1t mattered not what
his profession was. 1t is acknowledged
by all that the great lumber industry
has been the making and keeping of
this section of Virginia for the past
twenty years, and has been regarded
as an honorable occupation. Yet Judge
Mann now seeks to make 1t crime.
/ challenge Judge Mann to name any
commodity, the sale OF which has lift
ed more mortgages from the old
farmers homes in Nottoway county
than has the sale of timber No one
knows this better than Judge Mann.
fnr In ho nf wi jrh he ia
ident, many times the old, long-stand-
ing mortgage has been paid by the
timber buyer, and many and many a
time the old farmers; grocery aecoun,
timber for the sawmill man.
Thirty days In jail for hauling down
the public road! How are we to tell
who broke the bridge or made. the
tobacco and railroad ties. the man witt,
a wheat threshing engine, the Standard
OIL Company's four-mule tank, or the
sawmill mans wagon?
public roads, 1t should not \ interest
others: as 1t is, all pay taxes and all
use the roads. The sawmill man who
hauls more, and therefore cuts up the
and therefore more public good, and
should be encouraged in his work.
| l feel that this bill Will never be q
law, but when 1t is being introduced
ana puSFeu Dy SuCH man II lniiuenCe
and knowing 1t to be SO detrimental te
| the public good, /. as a citizen anc
voter. feel that our love and esteem
| for Senator Mann has been wasted
| The people of Nottoway county have
been loyal to Senator Mann to fault
| Drive out the lumber business ir
| Southside Virginia and you will mort
! gage your homes close up your stores
stop your institutions Of learning ant
| close your bank doors.
| Judge Mann in the last Legislator.
was very quick to see and ute agains
| the two-cent rate bill. because 1t wa:
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: yet he now offers on,
| which is unconstitutional and detri
| mental In the extreme, and asks tina
it be made law. Consistency tho,
art a jewell" G. l.. BRADSHAW.
Blackstone, Va, February Is. 1908.