The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-16
Good Roads Department
Bond Issue $75O,OOO Election to be Held
March 30, 1915.
Road Commissioners Provided in Act:


ginning year os the passover from
bad 10 good.
commissioners IS word to coil
lure with. People do not want to b'
iicr,ie,i si,ccpisi,iy like wo:m"" IN
taxation witllou, representation; but
women have had to take it and may
bc could not haze made better
choice OF things had they the law
in their hands. So while many Il man
can see IL different man to his own
liking in place Of ole Of tlir chosen
commissioners. yet he is not going
to break through the harnrs; Tor
sake Of that one man who might not
turn ont as we'll as was expected ol
him The road commissioners. choS-
eu By the people are indeed the pot
lamb; Of the whole county. Every
body loves them: yet. these very men
last fall at the campaigns. were they
to breathe Il whin OF bond issue
would have been turned down: their
wool was white as snow by not men
tioning it. These commissioners
probably would not want to have
anything TO do with il; and the
county saddles quite enough on COM
nissionc:s' backs anyway without
tumbling Il bond Issue upon them and
the building of such roads entirely
on, Uf their line 0f practice and pro-
fcssion 1t might also be condon"d
that the new commissioners are
elected not because they know as
much about roads as do the officials
elected last year. but that they are
elected for management of the pco-
pc's finance and The letting uf COLI
tracts in entirely new phase of coun-
~ work thor than ShovellinE and
spadins. Improved road building he
ing The wnrli OF men brought up in
lIlr service Of sci"ncc ami schools.
AS the work is too considerably over
large 10 be required OF men not. as
IL b0iy. having been engaged in such
work before; and people who vote
for the hond issue will want TO see
that their moneys worth is in the
suilicicncy OF the roads; n; we'll as
in the amount Of roads built
Man: persons seemingly mistake
the word bond issue. and call it
bondage which in Il way. it is as poll
and other taxes arc-tlat ia---thcy
must be paid: il is the obedience Of
children to- their State, but as to tho
future, bonds mean that the future
bonds itself to pay for the good roads
given them by the present They
would rather pay for them than take
for IN Inheritance the bad roads
Which the present has. TO give them:
just such roads as the past has
wiilcd to the present and which the
presen: has had to take and keep up
with more money to each mile than
would he required for ten or twenty
f,t
This is the expense tllu present is
they desire to deduct from the future
and It's system OF roads
Once while listening to debates in
4 Press Club meeting. when ronds
were tho highway cry Of the country
an editor was opposed to advocating
bonds because. though it might benc-
fit the present, 1t would burden pos
terity.. 4 brother editor us full of
Dlirth as o. common sense called
out. "Iiaug it, What has postcrity
ever done for u.s."
An editor of four page weekly IN
mill town observed that about
three thousand persons looked to
him for the news ard they we're good
pay. IF l advocate bond ISSUE" he
said, IL shall have to look for anotll-
er job. Everyone OF my subscribers
will quit. They won't sec what good
roads mean to them, SO they must
pay for them-their turnpike is up
and down the mill II, or"
DO they own pr .,crty?" was ask
ed.
20. very few"
Then convince them that they
have nothing to pay IL they have
nothing to own"
But the editor had to visit every
Subscribers home and fully explain
that II they had no property. they
might use the good roads until king
dom come and pay nothing toward
them. Even then the scarc-hcad of
bond issue frightened many into not
voting for 1t. and not voting against
It, which helped in the road failure
that year.
The fact that manufacturing towns
whose people may not have property
but have free use of the very best
roads ever built. ought to induce them
to vote with vim for bond issue,
which only means taxes to the pro-
perty man and let's the laborer go
free beyond his usual poll aud road
tax which tho pays from 81 to 50
years of age. There are no people
who enjoy the country roads more
than residents of manufacturing
towns. They dot the roads like bios
SONS in spring time. going to md
from visits in the country, and sing
ings In country churches They arc
the very life of the country roads In
the long summer days; the buggies
and wagons and carriages aglow
with the prettiest children and we'll
dressed mothers and fathers; and
good, clean, wide road to them where
dust does not clog their throats md