The Adair County news., 1913-01-22
Never Bond Her.

For some time the Adair COUNTY
News has been agitating thu
question Of issuing bonds and build
ing roads in Adair county. Now
have always heard that it took differ
ent opinions to make horse swaps, so
am going to take issue with the News
In the first place want to say that
live in the Eastern part of Adail
county bordering Taylor county.
have heard the bond business discuss
ed and cusSed on many occasions.
have heard that when they first began
to agitate bonds in Taylor county
that they employed stump speakers to
stump the county. The taxpayers
were slow to take hold, but they
preached to them that they would be
easy to pay, also told them that they
could soon pay them off in black
berries and buttermilk, and to the
sorrow of themselves and their pos
terity they voted bonds, and many a
berry field has been worn out, washed
off and thrown away, and many a
great grand daughter of the youngest
heifer of that day have long since
passed through foreign soup houses
and even the most of those good old
honest taxpayers themselves have
gone to their rewards, leaving behind
a hampered posterity, and a fast &C
cumulating debt which to this good
day has never been paid. 1 know of
many men of Adair county who have
had desire to invest in Taylor coun-
ty real estate, but out of many there
has been but very few who ever in
vested. On the other hand want to
say that in the last few years there
has been a constant inpour of farmers
from North Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia in the Eastern portion
of this county, and land that ten years
ago was selling at from one to two
dollars per acre, is now bringing from
ten to twenty dollars. While this
class of farmers are filling up this part
OF Adair county right along beside
the Taylor county line, they are eau
tious not to cross over the line into
Taylor county. Some one says why?
Simply because they do not want to
buy debt. Now if any taxpayer in
Adair county thinks he would like to
have Adair county bonded, L would
suggest that he take trip over in
Taylor county and see the conditions
OF things as they exist over there. l
am in favor Of good roads, and | will
admit that good roads make good
counties, but l am strictly opposed to
running a county by bonds, to make
good roads for some capitalist to ride
over In their autos and view the
ruins Of a once prosperous county.
And again, think it ridiculous for
the Taxpayers of old Adair to incur a
fast accommodating debt on our county.
that our great grand children will
look back on their forefathers with
disgust and shame for heaping bur
den upon them that they cannot paw,
and burden them to an early grave
with a mark of dependency on their
faces and a sting Of remorse in their
hearts for the wrongs done them by
their fore fathers. | heartily indOrse
every thing that my friend DIR. Jones.
or Montpelier, wrote in regard to
bonding the county, and | believe
that If YOU will poll Adair county.
that nlne-tenthS of the TAXPAYERS
will see ii just like DR.. Jones and |
see 1t. L had the pleasure few years
ago Of being member of the Adair
fiscal court. and the bond issue was
at that time agitated to some extent.
and am Just to-day IA | was then. |
am strictly opposed to bonds first. last
ana all the time. but as | said then, |
am IN favor Of reasonable road tax.
and let every magisterial district re-
ceive every cent that it pays as road
taxes for the betterU ent of its own
roads. / certainly believe if you bond
AGair county that you will shut out
any one desiring to buy them a home.
also will decrease the valuation of real
estate fully one-half, and demoralize
business to such an extent that every
person who can procure a car fare will
leave as fast as steam can pull them.
and the few who remain. will only try
TO raise enough for the maintenance
of their families, and will not have
any surplus to spare, and in such an
event what would become of the CITY
folks, for we all know that the farmer
Is the back bone of the whole shooting
match, and when the farmer is down
and out we will not have any use for
autos, manufactures, printing presses
latent medicine fakiers etc. | would
like to hear from Others in different
parts of the county on this subject.
VIII ring off by saying, when YOU
bond her you will ruin her
n n l.