The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-03-10
Bring Tax Receipt
With You To Polls
VOTE NO ON THE BOND PROPOSITION
Means Big Increase In Taxes Without Correspond
ing Increase In Benefits

Take your tax receipts with you
when you 60 to the polls tomorrow
to vote.
This was the campaign cry of the
republicans at che last election but
1t applies with still greater force In
the election tomorrow on the boud
Issue.
The proposition lobond the county
for 2OU, 600 II 1t carries means not
only that you are adding to your
taxes for this year but for each year
for the next ten years.
It is not only the face Of the bonds
E2On, 600 that you will have to pay
hut you will have to pay the interest
as we'll and this is no small item
Even at six per cent this means
$4,000 per year half the amount chat
was spent on the roads Ia the south
end of the county the past year
Acuording to the statement OF the
county commissioners This amount
you will have to pay without getting
any tenefit for it whatever except the
privilege of using the two hundred
thousand dollars at this time.
Every one who has had to borrow
money to establish himself In any
kind of business or to he,p garry on
that business knows that the paying
of interet is the biggest drain on
any business that 1t can have lt Is
like payii for dead horse You
have nothing to snow for 1t
However when you borrow money 1t
IL with the expectation at least that
yon can make that money earn you
enough to lay the interest aud pvo'
ht for yourself but this bonding
prnpositIon Is different This two
hundred thousand dcllars will
neither earn the money TO pay the In
telest or any part of the principal
nor will 1t help you to obtein the
money to pay your increased taxation
You are simply taking upon your
selves an additional burden in the
form of taxation that you have got
to work that much the harder to
meet
Every one believes In good roads
They are a benefit to any community
aud help to develop it ans they
should be built as fast as the county
is able to pay for It bat the borrow
ing of mune7 to pay for them will
Increase their cost by the amount
of Interest which you have to pay,
or twelve Thousand dollars per year
aud by the time the bonds have been
paid at the least twice over for your
roads
What benefit to you as individuals
would It be to Lave good roads after
your property has been sold to pay
the taxes. for building themf This
is no fa picture Most of us have
all that we can do to meet our taxes
now, and 1t was the last straw that
broke the camel's bauk
Taking lhe commissioner state.
ment hs being correct At least half
II the money is to DO expended on
roads for which there is no crying
need at least at this time, aud can we
afford to pay twelve thousand dollars
year in addition to the actual cost OF
the roads to afford the automobile
owners an opportunity to speed theiI
maohinesf
Better go slow, learn to creep be-
fore trying to @alk Build tie roads
as We can afford them and save this
Interest money even If We go to ths
full extent each year sof what thai
years principal would DO
Take your tax receipts with yen tC
the polls Study them carefully anc
make up your mind II you can afford
to vote to have the amount increased
without adding In any way to you
ability to meet them
Every vote cast for the bond issu'
making II necessary to raise NOR
money by taxation Is a vote to taxi
that much more more out of you
own pocket Can you afford to do IL
Take Your Tax Receipt With Yoi
And VCte NO