The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-10-30
ROSS FORK "DEAD HORSE"
ROAD.

ROAD.
Grangeville Globe is one of thos
papers that seems to enjoy the hobb
or working a cramped imagination
It's latest gaseous squirt is to the e
fect that $4,000 might have bee
saved had the dead horse bill 70
helping put in the Ross Fork road NJ
been passed through and signed
The Globe Is here to say tina
was one of the shadiest deals that |
positively knows of being put through
during the last legislature" TIL
Globe may be there" to say that
but 1t wasn't at the legislative SEES
sion to say it, and the expression /!
on the order of lot of other sense
less rot that Is being peddled. 9TH,
Ross Fork road is one of the bes
pieces of highway ever constructed
In the state, and what little help 4
got from the last session of the as
sembly didn't materially improve the
road, or the commission would not
have met in Pocatello during the
present week endeavoring to figure
out how the simplest process of i'm
provement and construction could be
advanced Tribune.
From the tone of the above rather
rabid comment it would seem that
the Tribune has taken for granted
that on account of its geographical
location, or the fact that it has the
distinction of being the leading daily
In a city which flourishes the title of
the gateway to Idaho" in the face
OF every traveller from the kingdom
OF Joe Smith into the Gem State,
that that IS about all that is neces-
sary FOR it to know of q subject to
make its decision final and to put to
tgnominious rout all opposers.
That seems to be about as far as
the Tribune goes, outside of its bo-
Quets to the Globe and the statement
that what little help it (The Ross
Fork road) got from the last legisla-
ture didn't materially improve the
road" That Is exactly what the
Globe claims, and is one of the rea-
sons for its criticism of the $4,000
appropriation, and why 1t called it
q dead horse" bill. The road was
already built and paid for-$20 900
by the Eleventh legislature and $19,-
600 by the interestd citizens, accord
ing to their agreement-and the $19,-
600 appropriated by the last legisla-
ture went as a refund to those
citizens. and not for improvement at
all. That is what made 1t a dead
horse" proposition, so far as the in
terests of the state in general go.
There were scores of meritorious
road bills up, asking for the state to
appropriate from $4,000 to $4,000
against a given amount that they
would raise to help improve their
conditions, but they were turned
down and this $4,000 which the
Ross Fork citizens had agreed to
put on that road to get the $4,000
from the previous legislature, was
turned back into their private Golfers.
From six to eight different sections
could have been materially assisted
with that sum, and pronounced i'm
provement been made in the state.
Is the Tribune, or anyone else in
that section so narrow and "cramp-
ed" either in their Imagination or
their sense of justice as to contend
that it was toting fair to take that
$4,000 away from number of small
development projects, where the cit
liens We're willing to take the money
on the same terms which the $20,-
900 appropriation had been granted to
the Ross Fork people by the legisla-
ture before $4,000 by the state and
$4,000 by the benefited commun-
lty) and re-emburse those people who
had received the $39, 900 benefit? The
was pledgd to econ
omy, it 1t is true; and it practiced
1t with painful precision in some in
stances, but this could hardly be call
ed one of them.
1t may be a grave offense, but the
Globe cheerfuuy pleads guilty to the
charge of having a "cramped imagi-
nation" Some newspaper men can
hardly be charged with harboring
such a mental condition, and their
writings would refute it if they were
For instance the Tribune says: 1.-THE
Globe may be there to say that, but
t was not at the legislative session
20 say it, That is where the Tribune
would have been better off if 1t had
practiced little 'cramping" instead
Of unbridling it's imagnaton and max
ng guess at something which it
'eally knew nothing about, and thus
making itself look foolish. The Globe