The Adair County news., 1913-01-22
More About the Bond Issue.

Dear Editor
am glad that uncle Tommie Jones
and Mr.. Wheeler have riz right up
and spoke right out in meetin just in
time to save the county from bank
ruptcy and ultimate depopulation. AS
l write cold chills chase each other
up and down my spine, my hair stands
on end, and cold sweat besprinkles my
brow when L contemplate the dire
calamity that might have befallen
Adair county had these apostles of
popular rights and guardians of the
county's wealth not spoken. One wise
man has said that the majority is al
ways wrong and now that this has
been proven how can we doubt it.
(But l wish to mention that this does
not apply to the folks in the Knitiey
section by about to A few years
ago more than so per cent of the legal
voters in the state of Kentucky voted
in favor of an amendment to the
states constitution to enable the
several counties to vote county bonds
TO raise money to build roads. And
then the states legislators (poor fool
ish mOrtalS) passed law putting this
amendment into effect and also made
another law providing for 10 cent
state road tax. 1t is further provided
that this state fund can only be used
to supplement road funds i'm counties
where the mossbacks are not in the
majority.
About IS counties in the state votod
bonds, maccadamized their roads, and
paid off the bonds away back yonder
before people ever found out that they
had to go bankrupt and become de-
populated on account of the tax And
the people stayed right at home and
never ran away at all And they do
tell US that land no better than what
we have, in those counties sells for
more than double the price of ours
and that said counties are growing
rapidly in population and wealth.
"Where ignorance is bliss it is folly
to be wise" Had the citizens of our
sister counties had one or two of our
Adair county mosSbacks to prophesy
to them they would have all probably
taken bright short time after voting
their bonds and fled to Adair
county where folks are not menaced
by good roads. And in what is the
most prosperous district in the state
'The rank thistle would now nod its
head in the wind and the wild fox dig
its hole unscared."
Even now more of us might be
frightened had we not heard of his
voice, like AEsop's ass, braying be-
fore. Older citizens who can re-
member tell US that when our court
house was built all the mosSbacks
rose up and of one accord began to
prophesy and did wall most vehement
ly saying, that we would all be pau
perized as result of the tax and that
folks in adjoining counties would soon
have to be tOtin' us cold victual sand
old clothes. But dare say that Stats
tics show that there are not to-day
more than score of persons in the
coUnty's poor house as result of the
courthouse tax, nd few people still
have money with which to buy things |
at the store" l do not care whether !
the money be raised by voting bonds |
OF otherwise, but l believe that after !
a year or two when the county gets |
her roads we'll graded she should pro-
coed to macadamiZe them and that |
our people could invest money in no.
thing from which they could receive
so much pleasure and profit in return
for the money expended.
W. E. Dudley,
Glensfork, Ky.