The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-14

bad to good.
Commissioners is q word to con-
| lure with. People do not want TO De
herded sheepishly like women ID
taxation without representation; out
women have had to take 1t ana may
be could not have made q better
| choice of things had they the law
| in their hands. So while many man
| can zee a different man 60 his own
liking In place of one OF the chosen
commissioners, yet he is not going
| to break through the harness ror.
sake OF that one man who might NOT
turn out as. we'll as was expected OK
him. The road commissioners, chos-
en- by the people are indeed the pot
lambs of the whole county. Every
body loves them; yet, these very men
last fall at the campaigns, were tney
to breathe a Whit of bond issue
would have been turned down; their
wool was white as snow by not mem
tioning It. These cor Aissioners
/ probably would not wanL to have
| anything to do with It; and the
county saddles quite enough on COM
missioners' backs anyway without
Itumhling bond issue upon them and
/ the building OF such roads entirely
! out OF their line OF practice and pro-,
fession. 1t might also be condoned
| 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 peo-
ple's finance and the fetting OF con-
tracts in entirely new phase OF counA
| ty work--ther than shovelling and
spading. Improved road building be-
ing the work Of men brought up in,
| the service of science and schools.
AS the work Is too considerably over
/ large to be required OF men not, as
\ a body. h.tving been engaged in such
! work before; and people who vote
ior the bond issue will want to see
that. their moneys worth is In the
| sufficiency OF the roads; as well as
in the amount of roads built.
Many persons seemingly mistake
the word bond issue, and call it
bondage-which, in a way, 1t Is as poll
and other taxes are--that is---they
must be paid; It ia 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
/ 755;;iiti TTtii5I pay i5T tiirIn tiian take
for an inheritance the bad roads
which the present has to give them;
Just such roads rs the past has
willed to. the present and which the
present has had to take and keep up
with more money to each mile than
would be required for ten or twenty
miles of scientifically built road.
This is the expense the present is
seeking to escape from, and which
they desire TO deduct from the future
and its system Of roads. "A
Once while listening to debates in
a Press Club meeting, when roads
were the highway cry OF the country,
an editor was, opposed to advocating
bonds because, though II might bene-
fit the present, It would burden pos4
tefity. A brother editor as full OF
mirth as of common sense called
out, "Hang 1t, what has posterity
ever done for us?"
An editor of four page weekly in
a. mill town observed that about
three thousand persons looked to
him for the news and they we're good
pay. "If advocate bohl ISSUE" he
said. az shall have 10 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 TOR theul--their turnpike is UP
and down the mill floor"
DO they own property was ask
40. very few"
Then convince them that they
have nothing 70 pay II they nave
But the editor. had to visit every
subscribers home and fully explain
that II they had no property, they
might :e.sss the good roads until king-
aon come and pay nothing toward
them. Even then the scare-head OF
bond issue frightened many into not
voting for II, and not, Voting against
It, which helped In the road failure
that year. I,
The fact that nanufa. -uriag 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 a VIM for bond issue
which only: means taxes TO. the, pro-
perty man and lets the laborar 20
free beySnd his usual poll and road
tax which he, pays fror 21 70 so
years OF age There are no people
Who enjoy the country roads more
than residents. OF manufacturing
towns. They. dot the roads like bios-
sems in spring time. going to and
from visits In the country, and sing
iRgs In cpurtry churchea They are
the very life or the country roads in
the long summer days: the bngsies
and wagons and carriages eSiov; |
with the prettiess children and we'll |
dressed mothers and fathers: and q |
good, clean, wide road to them where |
dust does not clog their thfosts and |
hemires their clothing. and where
Rtltorlobiles and bic "a, y have room |