The Cecil Whig., 1914-01-31
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

aS Yon 7uiH Save the WHO'S busl-
ness l6fte much time ami lab1r BY re-
mitting yenr 5nb5tibtion auithem aoait-
ing to recfiUe a bM
"a Where a snbsn1bhou IS 5fVeral year!
in arrears IT is eUiaent that a bill ha,
been ssVs,al times sent FIR the same ana
the cHte qOiW tffl at Hberp to PIT thu
aeeonnt IN an attornfy'S h0ndi FIR toE
fction at any time.
Commission. | have as high respect
for the gentlemen who constitute that
body as one man can possibly have for
another. But they are just our folks.
They are the men who have been
taken from beside US in the various
walks of life to constitute a commits
sion which is nothing more nor less
than the peoples ministerial agency,
and it is strange doctrine that the
principal (the people) should not most
carefully inquire into the proceedings
of their agent. And that is all this
resolution is asking. If by way of re-
ioinder it be said that the agent, that
is to say, the commission-has rem
dered this account in the printed re-
port that has been laid upon our desk,
let me say that to a certain extent |
agree with that rejoinder. | want it
expressly understood that | am not
intending to intimate that the report
of our State Road Commission is not
accurate and, in many respects, ad-
mirable. Let it be equally under
stood that it is not a sufficient report
on which the people or their accredit-
ed representatives can make up
sound and wise judgment as to what
steps they shall take with reference
to the continuance of this great under
taking. The report so far as it goes
furnishes US, | make no doubt, with
accurate information, but it certainly
does not bring us all the information
which is needed. In other words, there
are certain phases of this road situa-
ton with which the commissions re-
port does not deal at all, but with
which the peoples representatives
must deal if they are going to be in
any wise true to the trust which has
been reposed in them as public SER
wants. Let me illustrate:
"Thia report, for instance, does not
touch the vital considerations that are
involved ii this great subject, The
report tells %. how many miles of
roads have been built. where they have
been Eui!t, of what material, at what
cost. etc, etc It tells US this, have
no doubt, accurately but it does not
deal with the financing of that road
building. / am not criticising the COM
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THE latest plan submitted for rails
ing the greatly increased revenue
needed by the State, of the construc-
ton of improved" roads is to con-
tinue, is that of largely increasing
the assessment Of all property abut-
ting on all such Improved" roads, to-
gether with a graduated increase of
assessment upon all property within
a given radius of said roads.
Let it be said in passing that such
plan has never been adopted nor in
deed (as far as we know even seri-
ously considered by any of the other
States that have been largely engag-
ed in State road building. The bare
fact of it's submission to the consider
alton of the State OF Maryland only
emphasizes our contention that the
taX-burden imposed by our present
road-building policy is such a serious
one as to set everybody to feeling out,
if hope they may find, some source of
revenue that will help the situation.
The sources of revenue, thus far look
ed to, have been lamentable failures in
the way of helping the State to fin
ance this great enterprise, as the re-
cords only too surely go to show. We
may therefore expect all sorts of pro-
jects to be suggested as way out.
The scheme mentioned above is one of
many such projects, but one that is
not likely to meet entire popular ap-
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