The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-01-19
GOOD ROADS COMMIS
On TO SPEND EIG H T
MILLIONS MORE.

len,
hst
|ttel: people OF Maryland or more
Ees,ii -. ,l,Iato ;rin-,o. and con-
i people. seem to have gone mad
fo1o nd money.
9 r w years ago, when the State sold
I'D d, }ldings in the Washington Branch
int, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad or
|oul'' when it allowed the Baltimore
ID b. MO Railroad to have its holdings
WI millions and a half OF dollars.
Iac' was really worth three and a
pa .llions. 1t was proclaimed and
} b,S d all over the State what a grea'
real blendjd thing had been done, in
adet of the total State deb, and that
-, sple would after that year have no
N t. axes to pay. The Democratic
Specially took great credit for the
Fe 4 1t was the right thing at tina,
|opuf. italways is the thing TOR d State
Viii Individual to pay what they owe.
[itedA Sly mistake in the Stale paying
t. in i ebt, was mat it gave the Bald-
insa hid Ohio Railroad million Of
|g TIL to get the two millions and
s Ind i, WAS a great result accom-
ons !. when the State was ont Of
p to- This happy condition ought 10
ne pP,een maintained. and it would
since cen readily maintained bu, no
leu ,tsas the State out Of debt than a
lv[" aze seemed TO sweep over the
ners o spend money. and since rha,
I'D it has only been a few years.
|cKst ? has delugrd the ma-ke, with
-,,aues. until now the state d-b,
ban llm=d enormous proportions
g Oh Ne--sent State deb, Is entirely too
Willie. considering the income OF the
Ritka, Il the capacity of the people to-
Eas T. 5.
dnig itpubIc deb. of the State is
Fla( ue to between six and seven
honllDf dollars spent and d be spent
son Good Roads Commission and
" - {ldred thousand dollars TO build
co,,9 bm Baltimore to Annapolis, put
the +. Z what it was built tor onIy a lew
5w, and no man Of common
MAJ, ! see any reason for it
CAL ,1ood Roads Commission mas
| by 5llions of dollars of the peoples
n ad, and We, there mas not been sin
of o., = or a line published By which
serv9 ,iple whose money they nave
1 vii q know or find out now their
las spent. nor IS there any inii-
zen that there ever wiz be
-'f '9m the commission
1t fittle short OF an outrage that
% cel' OF m=n. a, This dsy can spend
equs Ans OF The peoplzs,~ money. and
otion' no report Of H. Ii looks Ike
a3 lne of Ms-y'aai are NJ, able 10
Renor,, - Of ,a-us-.e3s aud are no,
that ,ci 70 elect d Governor. abo
MIA c.tNmeke care 9. their own inter.
Jed wi, ,on DIV IN the lace 81 these Ftrt,
a sa i,prs lVa BIS aH m-n. proposed
ntt=gisiaur- shall authorize aa-
Pid issue Of eight millions of
Res for this Good Roads Com
~ va MI : spend ~ the same way rhatn
after = Jth- i've or six millions already
e dea T. seems 70 Us that this IS adding
er's OH ainry Is J; possible that the
called Nress going 10 increase the pres
% her + debt BY adding sight millions
paratitI be- wasiet by this 50 called
pm z dads Commission
~ ~ 2 j kp1yers have got It all to paw.
its cor.tie} OF MARYLAND can only get
later =, n the taxes paid by the people
= trm OF taxation or another. and
a. always very hard d-0t to
Dss a few years. when the tax
Eh then i've to paw of the six millions
n imp easted on the so-called good
! this ,ey will realize how hard it is
confu. IS debt by increased taxation.
|stcardI not De SO onerous if the people
were ged any value for it in the form
|e was practical, public roads at
sands e cost. Such roads would ben
|ause ,reat farming and business inter-
ents ,"ie State. But instead of good.
Pnvelc e,ds, the people have been given
Tn GOOD Roads Commission patch of
: I'd here and patch there. and at
/ from ten to fifteen thousand