The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-03-13
IMPROVEMENTS
And TAXATION.


intend to improve his place any be-
cause it would increase his taxes.
Now this man is able to make good
improvements on his farm, yet is will
ing 10 deprive his family of many Of
the comforts OF life in order TO save
little money each year. What do you
suppose he is going 10 DO with that
money when the time comes fer him
to lay down his burden in this world
and pass into the great beyond2 He
cannot take it with him and after he is
gone it will do him no good. Money
is valuable only in so far as it is used
Alright, and our belief is that a man is
entitled to some OF the comforts Of this
life while he IS living, even il it reduces
the size OF his tomb stone alter he is
dead. When a man is once dead
he is dead, and it doesn't make any
difference to him whether his grave is
marked by plain little slab Of stone
or monument a mile high that weighs
a million tons. He can't get out from
under it in either case.
While it is true that taxes have been
collected in this county for a great
many years and the county has very
little to show for them in the way Of
public improvements, we believe ii
to be equally true that if the money
collected for taxes we're used to build
good roads and bridges, public build
ings and things Of that sort that there
would be less kicking about the tax
rate than there has been in the past.
The greatest trouble in the past has
been that the money collected for these
purposes has been irittered away, a
little here and little there, and when
it was all gone there was practically
nothing to show for it. If any indi-
viduaPs or firms business was man
aged in the same way it would be
bankrupt in a mighty short time. But
if we take this money and build good
roads, even if it will only build very
small piece at a time, it would take
but very short time to show to the
people that it was business PROPOSE
ton and money in their pockets TO do
it. That has been the history Of other
counties and VS. see no difference be-
tween this and other counties in this or
any other state. A start must be made
somewhere, sometime, and the sooner
it is made the sooner we will have
something to show for the money
paid out.
There is no other place in the country
that we know OF where the taxes are
any lower than they are here, but there
are no improvements being made.
The Almighty has provided this county
with an abundance Of the very best oI
road making material and scattered il
all over the county, so that there is
scarcely place that rock or grave
would have to be hauled over quarter
Of a mile to put on the roads, aud one
good gravelled road trough this county
either from north to south Ur from cas-
to west would mean thousands OF dol
lars in the pockets Of the people living
adjacent to it. II would mean tha
they could get their farm produce to
market, it would mean that with tht
same team with which they are noV
hauling % or 23 bushels Of corn at
load they could haul 40 to so bushel
and not work the team or themselve
as hard as they do now, and if the,
can haul twice as much stuff at one hal
the cost it is making money for then
pretty fast. Think this over and lie
US hear from you on the subject.