Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-14

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In republican form of govern
ment 1.-The voice of the people shall
be heard,'' and on the 18th day of
April they will see the voters of
Tazewell county line up like stone
wall for the bond issue and free
themselves from the oppression of the
law, in which they were not allowed
to have voice.
"The Common Sense Tax Payer"
makes several other assertions which
we might look into. He states that
district bonds, with the county back
of them, will not sell as high as
county bonds. This gentleman surely
must think that he is the only Com
mon Sense Tax Payer" in the county,
otherwise he would not put up such
absurd arguments. He refers you to
bond issue in one district in Pulaski
county, where the bonds bore one half
of one per cent higher rate of inter-
est, than bonds in some other coun-
ties. 1t is nothing unusual for differ
ent bonds to bear different rates of
interest. And this illustration will
plainly show that our opponents are
so eager to find some objection to the
bond issue, that they will even split
hairs to get them.
From what can find out, this dis
trict bond issue was under the special
county road law of Pulaski, and was
not binding on the county as ours
would be. We have one of the best
counties in the state, and our people
have judgment enough to know that
our district bonds, with the county
standing back of them as security,
are "Gilt Edge" and will sell just
as high as bonds on any other county
in the state.
This Common Sense Tax Payer"
also says that the Bond Issue advo-
Gates were opposed to the "Pay as
You Go Plan" which he says would
build 120 miles of macadam road in
ten years. We are not opposed to the
"Pay Plan, but to the Promise to
Pay Plan" as we expect to pay for
our roads, but propose to divide the
payments into number of years, so
that it will not be burden on any
one-and build enough road to accom-
modate every man in the county.
The citizens of Tazewell county can
depend on one thing sure: if the
promise to Pay people will build
as much road as we do, and pay for
them in ten years, instead of thirty
four years, they can depend on their
taxes being three times as high. If
they pay for $625, 600 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 a man who is capa-
BILE 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. l notice that our
opponents do not propose to do any
permanent work on roads leading to
the macadam. / would like to ask nv
farmer friends, who live several
miles of the propose macadam roads.
how this system of roads will benefit
them, even if they are built, unless
they also get some permanent work
done on the roads leading to the
macadam.
He also states that under the
"Promise Plan"the difference in cost
will be close to million dollars.
He figures the interest we would paw
on the bonds, with little added for
good measure, but don't seem to be
fair enough to admit, that if they ex-
pend like sum of money, that the
people who put up this money, will
of course be out of the interest 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, he would, of course pay the in
terest on the money b, rrowed. On
the other hand, if he were to put up
the money, would he not be out of the
interest? can't see how our friend
figures that the people will save one
million dollars by the "Promise to
Pay Plan," unless he thinks like
other people do, that they WON'T
build any roads to draw interest on.
He tries to make the impression on
i the people who live on the proposed
improved roads, that the macadam
roads will be built first, and that
they will be left out. Every citizen.
who has posted himself knows that
all the roads were listed in the petit
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