Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-02-18
COM, WALKER ON
COUNTY BONDS
Mr.. Editor,

MI. Editor,
Please allow me space in your
paper to say in regard to County
bonds, as / view it personally, not
as q county commissioner. | stand
for bonds because of the necessity
of the court house and Jail, and
because this is the only way to get
the money at cheap rate of i'll
terest. ] stand for bonds because
| believe it is for the best interest
at this time to the taxpayers oil
our county. ! am for bonds be-
cause of the fact that our county
is one year behind in its finances,
and because the county commits
sioners have to borrow money i'll
advance of her taxes to run the
county With. They have to pay SO
interest for this money and ut
present money is hard to get. Our
county ought to have money in the
treasure to bear the expenses from
one tax collection to another,
hence there is no way to remedy
this only by taxing the people OF
our county for it, and this alone
would be cnought to make them
complain of high taxes. And it is
needle S to say that On top of this
comes q tax to build a court house
and jail, that you will find more
complaining than you find now
against bonds. But it is natural
for people to differ in their views,
hence l never take any exceptions
to anothers views On anything, if
mis- views are based on reasonable
facts. In a recent issue of your
paper I find Mr.. Joshua Troup
stands for bonds and paid his re-
spects to his views of the same
and in the issue of your paper the
18th, later, / find my friends Mr..
D. L. Martin in replying to same
took occasion to slightly refer to
myself as Mr.. Troup's soninlaw.
[ want to say to Mr.. Martin that
I am indeed proud of being a SON
in,law of such d progressive citizen
as Mr.. Martin says MI. Troup is.
If this had not been the case then
I might have been classed along
with my friend Mr.. Martin. But
such is life. Mr.. Martin in dis
eussing the bond question he
should of stuck to his 'Ecold facts
and figures" and not referred to
the pile of ducats, as he terms it
being scattered, he says they usu-
ally are. 1t is needless to say that
Mr.. Martin is one of the best citi-
zens and tax payers OF the county,
and of course he would not say
what he does about ducats being
scattered unless he knew from ex
perience what he was talking
about. But it is always better to
scatter them than to keep them all
in one pile. Judge from the ex
preston of my friend that he has
lost all confidence in anybody but
himself. That is just what's the
matter with our county now. He
readily states what he would do if
he could have his way about it.
So You sec he has confidence in
himself, and Of course the ducats
would not be scattered. All that
is needed in Mr.. Martins case is
the restoration of confidence. Mr..
Martin jumps On the bonds in one
instant and trys to point out to the
people what they would get out of
the bond issue and tries to con-
denim the issue because he believes
the banks would get some of the
money. His mind wondering SO
fast, he sets out to tell what he
would do, and the first thing he
said was he would let the banks
have all the money at ~ interest
except such fund that would be
necessary for thirty or sixty days.
Mr.. Martin, if he had his way, &C
cording to his statement, would be
quite clever to the banks in letting
them have all the money at AZ in
terest, of course this would give
the banks cheap money.
Not looking out for the Banks
to get cheap money, there are
some people who are looking out
for self and generally those are the
ones that believe that Others ale
doing the same thing. | 'would
not have said anything on this