The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-16
Road Commissioners Provided in Act:

gianing year OF the passover from
bad To good.
commissioners is word To con
jurc with. People do no. want 10 bc
lordcd shccpsliiy like women In
taxation without representation Dtt
women have had To take it and may
bc could NOT have made better
choice of Things had they the law
in their hands So Will" many man
can see Il different man TO his own
liking in place Of one Of the chosen
commits ssioncrs. yet lie is not going
10 break through The harness Tor
sake Of that one man who might not
turn out as we'll as was expected OF
him The road commissioners. chos-
en by the pcui,l" are indeed the pot
lambs Of the whole county. Every
body loves them; yet. tines" 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 nell
tioning il. These commissioners
probably would not want to have
anything To 10 with ii; and the
county saddles quite enough on COM
missinncrs' backs anyway without
tu,nbling Il bond issue upon them ard
the building of such roads entirely
on; of their line of practice and pro-
fcssion. II might also lie condoncd
that the new commissioners are
elected not because they know as
much about roads as do the official"
elected laii year. but that they are
elected for management of the pco-
plcs finance and tho letting Of con-
tracts In entirely new phase of coun-
ty work tllcr than shovclling and
spading. Improved road building he
ing III" work of men brought up in
the service Of science and schools.
As the work is too considerably over
large 10 be required OF men not. us
IL hOdy. having been engaged in such
work before; and people who vote
for the bond issue will want to see
that their moneys worth is in the
suiiicicncy OF the roads: a. we'll as
in the amount Of roads built.
Many persons seemingly mistake
the word hond Issue, and call i.
bundaee-wlich. in Il way. it Is as poll
and other taXes arc--that is--thcy
must hc paid; it is the obedience Of
children to their State. but as to the
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 an inheritance the bad roads
which the present has to give them;
just such roads as tile past has
willcd to the present and which the
present has had TO take and keep up
with more money to each mile than
would lie required for ten or twenty
miles Of scientifically built road.
This is the expense the present is
seeking 10 escape from. and which
they desire to deduct from the future
and its system OF roads.
Once while listening TO debates in
Il Press Club meeting, when roads
were the highway cry uf the country.
an editor was opposed to advocating
bonds because. though 1t might bcnc-
fit the present. it would burden pos
icri,y. A brother editor as full OF
mirth as o" common sense called
out. 'liang it. what has poslcrity
ever done Tor us?"
AN editor OF four page weekly III
mill town observed that about
three thousand persons looked to
him for the news ard they were good
pay. III | advocate bond, ISSUE" he
said. 81 shall have to look for anoth-
er job. Everyone of my subscribers
Will quit. They won't see what good
roads mean to them. so they must
pay for them--their turnpike Is up
and down the mill floor"
DO they own propcrty?" was ask
&c.
20. very few"
"Then convince them that they
have nothing to pay il they have
nothing 10 own"
But The editor had to visit every
subscribers home and fully explain
that If they had no property. they
might use the good roads until king
dom come and pay nothing toward
them. Even then the scare-head of
bond Issue frightened many into not
voting for 1t. and not voting against
1t. 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 hest
roads ever built. ought to induce them
to vote with vim for bond Issue,
which only means taxes TO the pro-
perty man aud let's the laborer go
free beyond his usual poll and re ad
tax which he pays from 81 TO so
years of age. There are no people
who enjoy the country roads more
than residents Of manufacturing
towns. They dot the roads like blos-
SONS In spring time. going 10 and
from visits in the country. and sing
1ngs In country churches. They are
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 a
good, clean. wide road to them where
dust does not clog their throats and