Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-04-13
man in the county.

man IN the county.
The citizens of Tazewell county can
depend on one thing sure: If the prom
ise to pay" people will build as much
road as we do, and pay for them in ten
years, instead of thirty-four, they can
depend on their taxes being three times
as high. If they pay for $625, 900 worth
of roads in ten years, and we divide the
same amount into thirty-four years, the
tax rate would of course be three times
higher. This Is a simple proposition,
which any school boy can solve, much
less man who is capable of casting an
intelligent ballot.
If the macadam roads cost them as
much per mile as they say ours will
cost, they will only be able to build go
miles in ten years in the county, and
Will be compelled to expend the entire
levy for permanent roads in order to do
this. We notice that our opponents do
not propose to do any permanent work
on roads leading to the mscsdam. l
would like to ask my farmer friends.
who live several miles off the proposed
macRdam roads, how this system of
roads will benefit them, (even if they
are bui.t), unless they also get some
permanent work done on the roads lead
ing to the mRcadem.
He also states that under the "prom-
Use plan" the difference in cost will be
close to one million dollars. He figures
the interest we would pay on the bonds
with little added for good measure)
but don't seem to be fair enough to ad-
NIT, that if they expend like sum of
money, that the people who put up this
money will, of course, be out of the in
terest on same, which would be just
the same thing as paying interest on
the bonds. If an individual would bor-
row thousand dollars to build road
from his residence to the macadam road
be would, of course, pay interest on the
money borrowed; on the other hand, if
he were to put up the money, would he
not be out of the interest? We can't see
how our friend figures that the people
VIII save one million dollars by the
promise to pay plan, unless he thinks
like other people do, that they won't
bnild any roads to draw interest on.
He tries to make the impression on
the people who live on the proposed i'm
proved roads, that the macadam roads
VIII be built first, and that they will be
LETT out. Every citizen, who has posted
himself, knows that all roads were list
ed In the petition alike, and that the
county officials are just as much bound
to build one road as another.
The strongest argument of our oppo-
nents Is that they can stop whenever
they want to under the "promise to paw
plan" So they can, and this is where
the objection comes in. A few leading
men could get what roads they want
and then they could suddenly decide
that they had spent enough money. So
there it is again; thousands of people
will be left without roads, and the gold
en- opportunity for getting bond issue
passed. The neighborhoOds that have
already gotten roads would then, of
course, vote against the bond issue.
One man needs roads just as bad as an
other; so why not put the bond issue
through, and bind the county officials
not to stop until all the roads set out in
the proposed S625, 600 bond issue are
built?
Our friend also stated that haste
and waste" should be the motto of the
bond issue advocates, just because we
proposed to build the roads as soon as
practicable, as we didn't think it right
to give one neighborhood roads now and
let another neighborhood wait for ten
long years for theirs. We will leave it
for the people to decide if haste"
hasn't done more business in the past
history of the country than DELAY. ="
PROMISE and DELAY" is the motto
they prefer, but they will have a hard
time to persuade the people to take q
backward step in progressive age like
this. CITIZEN.