Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-07
PAY Plan men
SHOW BAD LOGIC
Would 1t BE Equitable and
Right to Exempt Posterity?
The Hubble Hill Road.

The "Pay AS You CO. pamphlet
promises $50 miles of road, or so
miles in each district, completed in
ten years. These pay advocates pro-
pose certain amendments to their
special law, to provide for taxes to
be divided upon per centage basis;
an increased levy; towns to be taxed /;
their amended bill to carry upon it's
face "the roads to be built, and the
manner and method of making the
improvements. Fellow citizens, can
you reconcile either of these two
promises with the other? The taxable
values of our three districts are far
different. Can you find their uniform
rate which could complete these SO
miles in each district in ten years,
and still have taxes divided upon a
percentage basis? Don't you think
they have gone fishing for public SEN
timent; that the stream and the suck
ers are strange to them, but still they
insist upon sticking to their original
bait of taxes divided equally?"
They oppose the bond issue plan on
account of the enormous burden it
entails both upon the present and fu-
ture taxpayers, and they frighten
US by talk of "panic and hard times''
They advocate raising 100000 each
year, and building 120 miles of road
in ten years. Most of these men are
men of means, who are able to carry
out Utopian ideals; but don't you
think that $50, 1000 year might be
burdensome to the common run of
present taxpayers? If it were possi-
BILE to carry their plans out, do you
think it would be equitable and just
to exempt posterity, future enhanced
values, and future investments from
taxation, and decree to them, in fee
simple, free right of way to peace
and prosperity? But can you not see
that before their plan could be car
ried far, we would be having continu-
GUS epidemics and outbreaks of panics
and hard times? Don't your sound
economics teach you that panics are
usually brought on by imaginary and
magnified conditions which cause
commercial distrust; and that nothing
short of general failure in crops should
ever be sufficient cause for panic in
this great country of ours? Don't
you want to fight shy of one of these
artificial causes, and vote for the
bond issue?
They oppose the bond issue because
of the contractor, his inferior for
eign labor, his temptations and ,unfa-
vorable weather conditions, his defec-
tive work and our expensive litiga-
tions." Now, farmer friend, be frank,
and just tell us how many more men
you need to get out enough crops to
last from one season to another. jeff
ersonville Road Committee, pray tell
us what you have to do with the
weather conditions? Has the wind
ceased to blow, the rain, hail and
snow divided and passed around your
force account camp; and if it has, do
you pledge and promise future contin-
uations of these acts of providence?
Now, as to their Especial Reasons
Why Jeffersonville District Should
Defeat the Bond Issue:'' They point
out the ten miles of old road which
they can restore for 81, 500 mile;
that the most of the ~ Sd miles of
macadam is only 9 feet wide, which
would reduce the cost considerably.
pray, whose cost?); they have their
own machinery, organized force, and
Road Committee; they show you
Hubble Hill Road, IL feet wide,
with a foot shoulders, inch stone
rolled to Ga model road as they see
it. completed at cost of So, 500 per
mile. Did they tell you that their
foreman's best bid to restore those
10 miles of old road was. $28OO per
mile, and the county to furnish the
machinery free? Do they own this
entire bunch in fee simple, and is
their title to same non transferable :?
Mr.. Common-Sense Taxpayer, as to
"Who will be left out" we will Just
take few of your figures to show
you the soundness of your judgment
and argument, and we' challenge the
comparison, to show who is "acting
in bad faith" and who is "playing
games and tricks to mislead the vo-
ters." Take $25o0, the cost of Hub
BILE Hill Road, (none of our roads
are wider), and divide this cost into
\ the $625, 900 bond issue, and we
have $50 miles of modern macadam
roadsin the county, as you argue.
There are only $50 La miles pro-
posed-.dirt roads and all-in the
county. Don't you think it more i'm
possible and worse misleading to say
that you can macadamize all except
this one fourth milefor this amount,
than to say Bond Issue money will
run out before the 42 3-4 miles OF
macadam is covered, and thereby
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