Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-03-31
BOND ISSUE IS
THE ONLY WAY
Counties, States and Nations
Adopt it AS Only Method
of Making Improvements

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Bond Issue law.
Fellow citizens, will you be sur
prised when we tell you that the
founders, trainers and authors or this
law as it now stands on the statute
books are the self same men who
come along now, after public senti-
ment has been awakened and enlight-
ened and offer various amendments
to this law that they once held up as
ideal and perfect, and now they advo-
cate these amendments $50 ms to pro-
vide an admirable system for contin-
uous, up to-date and economical road
improvement?
We do not question these gentle
mems foresightedness or their states
manship, nor do we think it fair or
analogous to compare their states
! manship to that of our forefathers
who looked infinitely far into an un-
tried and undeveloped future and
framed our immortal Declaration of
Independence and our everlasting
Constitution. The condition of Taze-
well County public roads is and has
been ever the same even "as an open
book known and read of all men,. A"
The trainers of this Special Law,
their ultimate object evidently was
1--WE must do something to forcstall
and foreshadow THE COMING
BOND ISSUE QUESTION: but let
us do as little now as we can, con-
sistent with OUR best interests as
. we are given to see them.''
4 But now when they are brought
face to face with facts and n fast ap-
proaching election, do you notice
how they cater to public sentiment to
the limit of admitting that the law
as it now stands is inadequate, that
more money must be raised that
each district should get its taxes back
on percentage basis; that towns
should be taxed, etc. They even 20
so far as to advocate and endorse the
same roads that the bond issue advo-
Gates have laid out. We do not be-
lieve they can guarantee the uncer-
tainties that must attend, possibly
unborn Legislators, but granting
these amendments could be enacted
would it not make the original law
look mighty strange in the face to
the self same estranged fathers?
/ They advocate the "Pay MS You
Go Plan but what we want to know
is: Who is to pay, how we are to
pay, and where and how are we go.
ing?
You will remember that the Spec
ial Law carries a supplement clause,
paragraph No. 8, which provides that
in the event of private subscription
amounting to one third of the amount
allotted to said road district l.e raised
that said road committee must spend
this entire amount where this sub
scription is raised. This means that
it takes it out of the supervisors
hands and out of the hands of the
district road committees hands and
we think this may be their method
of "paying as you CO.. The infer
ence is that if you are unwilling to
pay or unable to pay that your road
will not "go." This supplement
principal, where it has been tried in
our county, seems to be very unpop-
! ular. We want to know, our most in
genious opponents, how you promise
to amend this Supplement Clause?
You have not said in your 1--WE be-
lieve" pamphlet.
We also hear great deal said
about "the good faith and promises
of the people being pledged to one
another" This is how this is work
ing as we see it. These very men are
circulating petition whereby voters
thoughtlessly sign same, pledge
themselves to support the "Pay
Plan" If you haven't encountered
this petition fellow voter, think
twice what it means before you en-
dorse it If you have signed it, think
THREE TIMES and do as we under
stand number of good citizens have
done and see to it that your name is
taken off this document. 1t seems to
US, to say the least of it, that this is
presuming upon your honesty and in
tegrity. This is question of far
reaching and of vital Importance to
every citizen in our county and as we
look it squarely in the face we are
willing and open to conviction 70
better plan even up to and upon the
day of this election.
AS we now see it, we are standing
steadfastly upon the Bond Issue law
as it now stands and we believe it is
going to carry an overwhelming ma
jority in each and every district.
Sixteen counties in our state have
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