The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-07
CURRENT COMMENT
Well Done.

1T Is WIN peculiar gratlHcati0n, pride and
pleasure that We announce aHthefitativefy- to-
day the adoption of the opposition by the voters
of Dan river district OF Plttsylvan1a county TO
raise one hundred thousand dollars by sale
of county bonds and to expend the sum thus
derived in the permanent improvement OF the
public roads of the district, The vote the
proposition Is decisive that 1t indicates a
substantial majority of the voters OF the dis
trict for the progressive step Indeed, with
small precinct lacking, the majority in
favor of the bond plan is more than two-thirds
of the total number voting. The returns from
the missing precinct will still leave the. figures
about two to one In favor of the improvement
plan.
This paper has done what II could to con-
vince the people of the district of the wisdom
OF the plan and proposed expenditure, but II
takes credit to itself for the result. The
credit for the achievement goes to the intel
fgent and progressive citizens OF the district
who have been earnest and active in their
efforts to secure the adoption Of the bond plan
We are pleased to be able to say that many
of the most prosperous and Intelligent men
and largest taxpayers Of the district have been
openly and actively advocating the bond plan
and their influence has been potential in the
result Experience will. we trust convince
those who opposed the plan OF their mistake
and we anticipate all OF the people of the dis
| trict will be glad the bonds were authorized
| and the roads improved.
The money derived form the sale Of bond,
! will enable forty Eight miles OF the principa
! roads of the district to be macadamfxed or CON
| structed substantially Of sand-cIay and properly
graded and drained so as to make tnem p rae
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| this will prove the best investment the people
| of the district have ever made and that they
will be amply repaid for the expenditure u
! fact. we believe that in fewer than hve years
! 1t will require no increased local taxes for tne
| extinction of the bonds at maturity
The example Of this district in improving III
/ highways will be persuasive upon the people OF
| other districts OF the county. TunstaH dis'
| trict which is contiguous to Danyiile. as Oar
| river district is will probably be next to con-
slider road improvement by bond derived funds
| Just az soon as the benefits OF better roads
| begin to be appreciated and the contrast De-
! strikinglv unacceptable we anticipate that Other
! districts in the county will oegin TO move io'
| Improvement also. -,
| we cannot forbear to extend our congratuia'
| tions TO President Darlington. Secretary Moor
man and the Commercial association on the re-
! suit OF this campaign. That organization MAJ
| steadily advocated road improvement anu CO
| oneration between city and county to secure
| results and has encouraged and endorsed every
road improvement proposition that mas peer
made in any part of the county
f,ct-the 1etherZ districts of the county aligr
| themselves beside this one progressive district
| and thus insure the Improvement OF all the
! roads of the county-Danville Register
For the Consideration Of the Working Man.
The duty steel products is from three te
| sixteen tmes' the total labor COST
/ To nut on the market yard OF certaT
/ worsted suiting cost $1.71. The duty Is $l.oz
| An Atwood serge cost to produce 4s cent:
| a ward The labor cost was cents Tne tartn
| duty is ~ CENTS more than the total COST; more
1 than five times the labor cost
Tbesa are lust a few of many like facti
! Wrought out by Mr.. w. Jett Lauck. in charge
| Of the neld work of the United States ifnmi.
grafton commission, in an article entitled
| Real Myth" and appearing IN the Atiahts'
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we commend them to the special and earn
! est consideration of the worknsman VINO II
| asked to believe that labor Ieaps nne nun !
share of the benefits accruing from Protector
with a big p, and that nothing less than tht
| present level Of impost duties would enable tne
| rrnarufacturers to maintain the existing wage
| scales. To presume to point out to him the
a,air and paipable truth which they so strongl,