The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1911-08-31

and for the love have for grand OLD
Washington county, the old heroes,
sons and grandsons, declare Il TO be
the wrong step to bond our county to
build roads in this sand.
I,must be short, but will give few
facts. Il Is fact that the bond issue
was started and stimulated by just a
few who own in this county most all
land that is for sale. Now we know
they are getting on all o. k. as they.are
but wish to build roads through those
ihnds and sell at ten times what they
IRive; take some Of the money, buy 9TH
err lands, still have enough left to do
lots of banking business on--we pay
them the interest
They say let those that buy the land
help pay for the building of those roads
DO you think 1t is right to vote to dou-
BILE the price of land for your child and
those who come here tomake their bonner
Il would be just as right to vote to take
halt their property.
II we bond the county it won't in
crease farm produce; the'price of cot
ton is set in New York; the price of
krain in the West. 1t won't enrich our
soil one bit. We make laws to protect
our game, why not protect the babe in
the cradle; it is not able to speak, so
why not speak for it., The bond issue
would misrepresent. Hundreds of our
northern friends have come here and
left; they say this country has been.
misrepresented. They say it is not so
bad as a mortgage. We will just take
what Webster says. Bound in servltude
You see the mortgage only binds our
property, and take it. The bond binds
ps in servitude-we must serve it for
forty years. They don't want the prop
erty; II is money they want. They tell
you it is only difference in opinion is
why we don't want bonds. We have
the same opinion is the trouble. The
few that whoop up bonds see lots of
money in it for them; we see the same
thing, and at the expense of the whole
county. Propress may be all right IN
such a way; but let them wait until
true progress comes, not jump 40 years
ahead, With bonds, they say it will
take five years to build those roads; so
II will. Some roads will have to wait
|ali this time. In five years by direct
tax we would pay in over 500, 900; that
will put all the roads in the county in
good fix. We could put our roads in
good fix with $40 per miles. We haven't
got any work or money in two years,
you see they have put near SIS, 900 into
one little piece of road, which, if it had
been put on all the roads, we would
have had good roads. AS it is they
say. we have such bad roads; why, it
seems Il was done on purpose so the
Pcry could be bad roads.
About Is years ago we paid road tax
for two years in this county, and never
a cent was spent on the roads. Some
thing was wrong; so it is now. They
say we must be taught our alphabet
from those who know it. Just see; we
60 north where they have bonded the
towns and countys; it gives strength to
the banking business; it weaEens other
business, Business men are encourage
ed to borrow money; so they borrow
$4,000. give security on $4,000; what
has been the result with many. They
we're getting on nicely as they were;
but II did not increase their custom; so
they vent on for while; their BUSH
ness was more than they could do JUS
tice to, 80 the went against the wall;
either direct or indirect the bank clos
ed out on all the business, Some one
says that was bad management; il was
to some extent, only; because the fellow
was doing all right with $4,000. but
when he doubled it he lost the whole.
Money counteracts money just as pols-
on counteracts poison. We go to the
lower class of the city what is the re-
suit; money get cheap woere it is pen
tifui. So the consumer has to pay more
OF supplies. More men are doing bus
mess, 30 there are more middle men as
we call them, that have to make pro
At on all article. But the producer
doesn't get any more for produce. The