The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-12-02

to ship in car load lots; IS IT. 1''
a higher, harder tax than all, To .
tax Yourselves to the limit, to ed'l-
cate your children, and then see
them leave the old homestead 1or
the pitfalls, small salaries, ana
false attractions of the towns; can
you keep them with you without
neighbors, and without improving
the surroundings? These children
will one day make our country LIE
more attractive and profitable than
town life. It is so already III the
West. Why cannot you help IL
along here? Governor Sanders
has truly said if we do not pay Tor {,
good roads, we do most certainly
| pay for bad ones.
5. To the man who IS past the
age of road service and to the man
who shirks, we say that 1t IS poor
business Judgment to complain at
paying from $1.00 to $500 a year
for better roads. You have some
relatives subject to du::.y, doesn !
it cost them anything to work2
Most old men live for their child
rem, and his children's children.
Does it amount to nothing to them
that before they pass on into the
next world they have lett a better
country and better chance Tor
their children? To the shirl1er we
can say nothing, all through LIE
The will fail to see his own best IN
terest; otherwise he would be no
shirker.
6. The plan proposed to insure
each Ward that it will be treated
fairly, is that each Ward shall
; have a Ward Road Commission,
composed Of the Police Jurors
from that Ward, and two tax pay
!, ers elected from that Ward, which
; shall look particularly after the
road interest Of the respective
: Wards. These Commissioners will
' classify the most travelled roads
in their Wards into the first class
the next into the second class, and
the next into the third class. The
amount Of money to be spent or
leach road according to it's class
. No money is paid out on the road:
y y without the approval Of the Ware
:. Commission. If the people in tn
n Ward cannot find among them
: selves three citizens who can b
:, trusted to look after the rights am
=, - interests Of the Ward, and to class
:, : lily their roads with justice, the:
= we have nothing more to say abou
a this.
,e Some Objections Considered:
ae l. We have been informed tina
&c few are afraid that even if the
le pay 8 tax they will have to wor
er the road anyhow. This is NJ
AZ true.
- 2. A few want o vehicle an
- per capita tax, in order to cate
~ the transient railroad and saw nj
y hands. We beg to answer that t;
-, ailroads and saw mills will pa
~ more than four times as much
= the balance Of the Parish toget
:: :, er, SO in justice, it may be said tn
=, heir employees are more than f11l
-, accounted for.
8. Some think that each Wa
should have the taxes on proper
40 M in that Ward. This is. wrong
~ ~ principle. The taxes from nc
~ - resident property in one Wa
~; ~ does not by any Godgiven rig e
zoe, 1 belong to that Ward, They 3
~. .ue paid by foreigners, and it IS pr
- er that it should be divided O
49, 80 the Parish. It is wrong in pr;
~ tice. What boots it if one W.
80 10 has fine roads and The adjoini
= one poor onesY The roads sho1
~ be built with reference to a gene
, NV system for the Parish.
the 4. A few are afraid that tn
ent. neighbors who live on main 10
ner will be better of tkan themseli
+ IS who live on bye roads, altho,
,esi i. such bye roads will be Tar lmpr
ont led over what they are now.
1trv cannot answer this. 10 the !
ther who refuses to have a good r
tax out Of spite to neighbors ]
Mid might live on a better, we
rdly think Of nothing fit to print. ]
tunately there are few such.
tax S. To the man who q
10y :, ! so :, \ :, a how ., +bn,,n is