The Brinkley argus., 1912-04-26

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 erty Owners Really Pays
 the Highest Road Tax?
 you Mr. Farm Owner Duncan township Dark Cor ner? Is it MT. Merchant of Clarendon Brinkey Holly Grove Roe Monroe Backton? Is you Mr. Banker of Clar endon Holly BnkIey? Oris you Mr. Farmer of all parts of the county that the highest road tax in Monroe county?
 Let's get at the right to this question
 Mir. Farm Owners first
 Ipay regular that all But with it a the paid each year brings pretty good interest the money have invested in my farms.
 Next Mr Merchant, let's have your testimony:
 T the regular road tax but figure in the road tax and
 with other taxes and add cost of doing business and sell goods so that the profit aorb this expense In other words the buyer pays the road well the freight
 Well, Mir. Banker. let's have your testimony:
 We figure the of doing business of the road other absorbed under that head and interest and discount rates take of this and give nice for dividends and surplus funds just the
 We'll, Mir. Farmeryou, the ler of the soil who with your families living farms of Monroe County how about the Monroe County road tax? All of the others who have testified show just how they about sposng of their part of the burden of a road tax How is 1t with you?
 Well of the road tax and in addition thereto myself and all other the place subject to five days road work and generally put it in each year"
 As the land merchants factory and bankers appear absorb shift the amount they road tax else namy the their patron borrowers thus bear their burdens do likewise absorb and shift by figuring in the road the products you raise to sell such as cotton corn. hay, etc.
 Every farmer in Monroe county NO IT SIMPOS SIBLE'
 Then the burden of the road paid by nearly all you. does it farmers?
 And again TT DOES"
 But road pay the county all of the road you pay farmer friends?
 Let's
 When you the years business the farm and go for supplies and market and have to double the mule and horse n gettnonehaf of load of products town nothing the extra time lost and breaking harness and vehicles and injury animals in endeavong get these few miles of mud hoes obloy mscaed roads for your loss here? It the merchant the banker foreign land but it's YOU frend And right here figure it down like every successful business farmer should do would find that right her than three times the road each tn class of people in 'noa count
 But this IS a-th is CREATE an grind ing any yet mentioned Your chilli and your families being den r eges o schools churches and sociay because th have roads they practically ted and unable anywhere In of sickness they away from medical help.
 So take collectively the county farmers paying each practically TIMES GREAT AS THAT of Monroe and yet it witt b solutey one iota of improvement
 Good roads roads built of rock and gravel money build but when ra:t.d h vaie of erty atfectel by them practically that really the of co1strucsioa rsl Tae thing be considered IS, how o gc l Talk S the larr about issuing long bond getting that nearly words Of the taxable property the owned by non-resdents and forgetting that the the who would the first aaI greatest beae from nent roads.
 to their and things really When they do Monroe will have permanent roads and found that then the ratio o ne paid will be 10 to in favor instead oi ID to against the the
 Let the Monroe County Coo Rods Association busy this summer and start the campaign permanent good roads l What do say farmers t T nmro. county Answer this article Wneyoir sentiments. sxz .-... =:.:::.:.=:.u