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

be t he mo S t Oenef
of bonds will be applied to ALL of
the roads mentioned and provided for
in said petitions and orders, and not
to the building of few miles here
and there, by some rich mans door, as
will result from the 'pay as you go
plan" FOR HE SAID HE WOULD.
So people of Tazewel county, you not
only have the promise, interest and
good will of the 1000 men who sign
ed the petitions for n bond issue cleo
tion Compare numbers with pamph-
let of ''pay as you go plan" advo-
cates) to insure you the building and
improving of the roads mapped out
in the bod issue petitions and orders
hereunder, of the court, but you
have the assurance of the court, that
in the event the bond issue carries
the money will have to be expended
on ALL the roads mentioned in the
petitions, which simply means that if
there be not sufficient money to build
ALL of said roads, as mapped out
and intended to be built, that then
said money must be pro-rated over
ALL of said roads, and cannot be
used in the building of a part of the
roads to the exclusion of the balance
Mr.. common sense tax payer is
not that right and proper, is not that
COMMON SENSE and LAW?
Now, my county friends, compare
the bond issue situation, as above
outlined, and which | submit is abso-
lutely true. with the "pay as you go
plan" and as outlined in its authors
pamphlet, and construed in the let
te-s of common sense tax payer
Read carefully and see what you are
PROMISED, see what you are to
LET, under that plan, that plan, the
great offspring of the enemies of
good roads. that secretly conceived
nd carefully planned Especial Law
Jumped or the people of Tazewell
county through the efforts of three or
four citizens of the county, who are
now defending it, and who in dark
ened room, with double walls. where
no eye could see, no ear could hear,
and without as much as consulting or
considering the rights and wishes of
the people of the county effected
thereby, acting only on their own
selfish ends, and against the interests
Of hn Of hn Of
well county, they framed, prepared
and had passed that most iniquitous
act, Tazewell counties Especial Road
Law" That law that is based upon
neither right nor precedent, that law
that requires the people of Clear Fork
District to pay 46 per cent of the
road tax of the county, and allows
her to receive only 33 1-3 per cent
back to be expended upon her roads.
The district in which these gentlemen
live does not suffer hereunder for it
gets about the same per cent of the
tax it pays, Maiden Spring District
is alone the winner and the Clear
Fork District is alone the ooser.
This, people of Tazewell county, is
the conception of right launched by
the advocates of the ''pay as you go
plan" which will be operated under
said special law, and it will be oper-
ated as it has been operated, since it
became law, to provide good roads
for the rich and leave the mud holes
for the use of the common people.
They now say it was mistake not
to divide The fund in the proportion
to what is paid by each district, and
that it CAN be amended by the next
General Assembly, WILL IT Be?
Why did they make this mistake
They did not expect their hand to be
called, they expected the p0ople of
Tazewell county and of Clear Fork
District to trust bindly and raise no
voice in opposition, but they failed to
take into consideration, fact that
the history of the human family
should have made known to them, and
that is that the people have very
determined way of Strengthening
things out when they have stood
enough, and that the time had come
for the people to rebel, and they
have rebelled and their rebellion is
going to result in the overthrow of
that pernicious Especial Law and