The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-16
4 LEGACY OF pOsTERrry

hEGACY or POSTERITY.
money spent for the permanent i'm
ri",enaent or the public highways is
an investment that will pay larger
"l'inends than any money that thn
pubic could possibly spend. tax
'or me permanent improvement Of
IN" public roads differs from o,I,er
lax III that the other tax is levied for
.urrrht expenses and has TO be levied
''oin year 10 year and Is gone. Tho
lax paid Tor permanent road work
Isl an investment that will nav divi.
ueIlds every year and larger dividends
thah money put in bark stock or cot
TON mill Stock. or in any other enter
prise.
Every county in South caro,in,
wastes enough money every ten wears
TO build permanent roads in the conn
'y ana at the end OF the ten wear
period the roads are no better t},ap
they were ten years before. In this
day the county that does not build
roaa3 is going 10 fall behind in the
constructive advancement of the age.
Io.levy sufficient tax in one year TO
build roads would be burdensomc.
The only sensible plan Is to issue
bonds and build the roads and thus
spread the payment of the bonds over
number OF years and the burden
ialis lightly on all. There are those
who will put up the plea that they do
not want to saddle debt OIL their
children.
There is no better or greater legacy
you could leave your children than a
debt lot money honestly and properly
spent ana invested in the permanent
.,T j.
leave them the roads they will rise ,lp
and bless your name ami tho wisdom
yon displayed
There is not man in any county
IN this State who today would not
Willingly pay tax for roads if n
former generation had left him tho
roads
believe If yon demonstrate. that is
as far as human agency can demon
strate. that IL the money is nut uu
the roads will be built, every man in
every county In South Carolina would
vote to issue bonds for permanent
road work
II has always been Il strange thing
10 me that, as rule, the people. who
pay the least and receive the greatest
benefit are always the ones who op-
pose tax of this kind. recall once
u public meeting to consider the qucs-
tion OF voting tax for school i'm
provement In a certain district. The
presiding officer who had no children
to- educate and who was the largest
TAX payer asked the privilege of cast
ing the first ballot for the tax. The
man who most vigorously opposed the
tax had six children to educate and
his tax would have been forty cents.
ESQ 1t Is with roads, unfortunately.
So 1t Is with roads, unfortunately.
who pay the greatest amount OF the
tax and receive the least direct bene-
fiji always favor such improvements,
while the fellow who pays practical
ly no tax and uses the roads every
day Is loldest In hts opposition. It
is passing strange. The thing to do
Is to show him It Is to his interest
and get his vote right. 1t is to his
interest to BUILD roads.
/ remember once where township
proposed to vote bonds for roads and
some of the citizens opposed 1t on the
selfish ground that they did not pro-
pose to build good roads for the peo-
PIE Of another township to drive over.
IT Is the selfish element to be rid of.
From selfish standpoint, therefore,
"a sue tuat ~ 10 SUUu u invest IuOuey
In permanent road work.
Any man in Anderson County, for
instance. would be willing 10 pay four
dollars a year for a good road from
his home to town. The average farm
er will not haveNto pay over that
amount II the bonds are issued. Then
why oppose it. From selfish stand
point 1t will pay you. From patrio-
tic standpoint 1t will pay you tenfold.
hope you may get your bond is-
sue through In Anderson County and
that, your county may remain In the
forefront of progress. To defeat the
proposed measure would put you back
ten years.
e. H. AULL.
Newberrv. March IA.
THE TAX THE AVERAGE. ANDER-
son COUNTY FARMER PAYS
TO BAD ROADS
II any farmer will take d few MIN