Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1912-10-10
Communicated.

Communicated.
After having read several o.
the Noted Dreamers' dreams, h,
reminds me of a jack leg preach
er who breaches for about tive
hours at clip, he says so man,
things that are really worth
nothing but simply help to max,
up a long sermon.
. Now the great dreamer ha.
said lots of big words and quoted
lots of ancient history and poetry
that we small frys do not under
stand, but we take it for granted
that his intentions to us are good,
so his dreams like the preachers
sermon, after YOU bull them down
and down until you get the es-
sence OF same, you can at least
find some good things said.
Sometimes n smart man can
learn some good things from a
fool, and by the way some Of the
smartest men in regard to the
welfare OF the country are not by
the apparently smart men go re-
garded, and for this reason we
among us smart men in many re-
spccts, who term our true and
tried leaders, demigogues and
such like.
Now, when the Noted Dreamer
says, lets have no County At
torney, | myself said Amen, :"
and "a the colored deacon said
when the Parson made a "point"
in his sermon, tell it brother, tell
it.
And believe the tax payers
are being aroused to a sense of
their duties as never before, be-
cause there is more to be done
and to think about and we tax
payers and voters have got to
steer the ship OF government else
she will be stranded.
Now as | see it, we have gone
along and jumped out of the fry.
ing pan into the fire every move
we have made in trying to better
conditions and it seems trying to
appear prosperous. Take for
instance, the public roads from
the overseer system to the con-
tract system. There was a great
amount of money collected and
diSbursed, but no roads. Then
to correct this bluuder in Beat
One We voted the bond issue, and
now | am told we owe $4,000. 90
for our survey and report of en-.
gineer.
In Beat One we have a little
more than one hundred miles of
road, making the cost OF survey,
etc, about $500 per mile, and
this amount if expended properly
on an average mile in Beat One
will make better road than any
OF US are acquainted with, VI
not one dollars worth of work
done on the roads. now If under
the Bond Issue it takes S36. 90
per mile to make plans. in the
name of all common sense what
will the real work amount to.
This is sufficient evidence | think
TO convince any thinking man
that the price will far exceed
what the prosperity OF our coun-
Try will justify.
In my mind the most practicble
thing in regard to the bond issue
that Beat One can do is to call a
halt. collect our senses enough
to think one more time for our
selves, and take the most sensi-
bic way out of the situation.
| would suggest that we make
an honest confession, pay for
this survey. settle with bond
brokers, and quit the bond issue
without further expense, for if it
costs $500 per day to hire a one
dollar per day boy to help
make a survey, what will men to
do the real work cost? Now
please make the calculation.
| am no doctor but there is a
remedy. Ii We can vote and is
sue 1t in, why can't we vote it
out, and in November there will
be an election. | voted for the
contract system, voted for the
bond issue. but | cont say that
want any one accusing me of it,
and am now readyswlth so many
others that voted for same to vote
against it,
Now | am open to conviction,
ii we need County Attorney
then keep the office, if not say sc
IN November. II we need the
bond issue keep it if not lets
wake up far taxes are already
mighty high.
A PLAIN FARMER.