Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-16
KANTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE BRIDGE .. ". BOYCE SAYS HE HAS NOT oIGNED FOR OR AGAINST.
 GIVES HIS REASONS.
AW ATS PUBLICITY
0sys He Wants a Free Bridge as Bad as Asbody-What is the
 Revenue to Be!


 aAould be thoroughly considered be- nere signing for or against it., more particularly is thorough under- Ssanding necessary than is your per- Sonal interest from the fact that fll- tare interests of all may either sui Ger or profit by your present acts.
 Every tax payer can see on the end af his 1910 tax receipt and on every tsrmer years tax receipts one-fourth N-4th) mill interest on R. R. Bonds 9is IA mill has been on every re- se4pt I ever paid in the county. It As the acts of a majority of the peo- Vle before my day and your day (only 0e oldest residents in your county can tell you anything about it) Still We must pay it annually, and we are aot trying to pay the bonds only the Interest. If you ask anybody that is ed enough to know you get sickly grin and a statement (that We were AoGdooed we have been told that his- tory repeats itself every 30 years, and 4 we leap before we look we may be Aoodooed again and according 10 his tery it's time that we shou d wake up.
 Its easy to fall in hole and say HI look next time.
 l have asked many questions about <he firnness of the foundation for the bridge and found out nothing. The petition was presented to me today. | did not sign it because knew nothing and l am not going to .to to your children and mine what those old set lers did to us until l know. l feel that if anybody knows anything CT has anything that would enlighten uhe other fellow put it in print" l want the bridge as bad as anybody, if l We know what We are trying to do 1 end where We are going to wind up with it. Still until we know this great precaution should sude our steps,
 We pay (1-2) half mill upon which We build an enormous State Capitol. l This stands as a monument and costs he people of Jefferson county only twice as much as the interest on the railroad bonds herein referred to. Think, look and learn.
 The commissioners may be as hon. est as l am. l have had lots of deal figs with some Of them and found 0em absolutely so and believe they would be so but even then. if I was running road to bridge l would fMn il through my own interest or would buy land ahead of the road v could and l would not be a loyal 4ather to my children if did not. Oaey are all men of good reputation fsood standing and good fnanciers. end have nothing but praise for &em. but if they are as ignorant of ne bridge as I am, and have tried - learn, then somebody will neces- Arily assist and it Will be run ss [ooked as that sidewalk in front of uArver's store on East Sixth avenue Qhere is not straighter man in ApWn than the one who laid the walk. >Qut he was not the engineer shd could>pot change the engineer Ag Those who came from Little 9ock to boost the bridge were Lit ee Rock boosters, and Little Rock S4s had some boosting. You can IVY $1,o00 house and lot fog slo town and $10 month, move wh an- NFer you please and do the same <hing over. You can do the same !. <hang in Fort Smith, l am told, and ' you want one, give me your or. Ger and $2.25 car fare and I'll go 1 and hx you up. This condition is ! cot a wholesome one for any city Fill they can tell us how to whip ! sAr children.
 Many city is in such a eondi- ! Non that real estate has no sale yaiue (indiscreet voting and sign Afg will tie knot in ours,.
 l have been informed that the eSvying court would appropriate 70, 900 annually to pay this interest, and one or two payments is all we will be asked to pay. This levying court fs not in session, and when 4ey were they took down the 5000 that had been appropriated for bridge purposes.
 We are asked to pay bonuses and bridge tax without one dollar for feiture O. good faith money on the other side. Windiamming is cheap Give one-half of the money to local capital. organize and build road of our own. In one instance the M. D. X c. and Parker roads both