The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-07-08
Tho Good Roads Bond Issue


In discussing the bond issue for
good roads on the street Saturday
| found that almost every man
that opposed it gave as his reason
too much taxes. !" Every man
wants good roads. but is not will
ing to pay for them, and it is OF
this fact that / am asking space to
write.
Our taxes, so am informed
by NJ. B. S., are IA mills. The
, county of Alcorn is paying a
$500, 900 bond issue and also a
three mill school levy and their
rate is 15H mills. Now, why is
this1 One reason is that there are
more people and more manufac-
turing concerns in Alcorn than in
Tishomingo. The other reason,
and the main reason is that proper
ty in Tishomingo county is assessed
for about is of the market value,
and that is the real truth, as | am
prepared to prove. ! know of one
Nero liant who claims he does a
$40, 900 yearly business and his
stock of goods is assessed at $500
Another merchant of my accuaint-
ance has a brick building 40 by 80
feet, well equipped for merchan-
disc. and gives it in at $500 and
wants $3.50 per year rent on one
half of it. One man has 80 acres
of land near Paden assessed at
$500 and he has refused $1,000 for
it. Another gives in his land at
50 90 per acre and he has refused
$500 per acre for it. Weber &
Coffin Co. own land near here that
is assessed at $500 per acre and
have refused more than $40 per
acre for the timber alone. |
heard man say last night that
he wanted $1,000 for the timber on
so acres of his land and still the
land was assessed $500 per acre.
These are only a few of hundreds,
and everyone knows it. Because
our Board of Supervisors has new
er seen fit 10 raise the assess.
ment to what it should be. Why?
oh! because" one member told
me, our county has money, pays
100 cents for each dollars worth
of warrants issued, and we don I
need our assessment higher. y
Don't need any money! When
the report has gone from He'll to
Hepsidam that Tishomingo schools
are farce and Tishomingo roads
unmentionable in the presence of
ladies!
1t is this very principle of CON-
TENTMENT on the part of our Board
that causes disadvantages schools
to stand at the foot of the class,
and Tishomingo teachers to stack
up at about Y in the catalogue of
teachers of the state. Our Board
is not entirely to blame for this.
Our good people are partly in
fault. There are men all over the
county who would not cheat you
in a trade, who would deny them
selves to pay their debts, who GO
to church every opportunity, and
who tell the tax assessor their
$500 team is worth about $3.50.
Now isn't that true? You know
it is. old Nick" has invented
several ways of stealing, and that
is one. For just as certain as the
Recording Angel of God marks
down the transgressions of men,
some of our good citizens, when
they face the judgment bar of
God, will have to tell the hosts as
sembled there how they spent the
paltry tax money they defrauded
from their state. Will you be
among that number?
So have come to believe the
remark heard on the street Sat
urday; Give us Board of Su-
pervisors that is not afraid and has
the backbone to do its duty, and
we will not need a four mill levy,
for one mill levy will do the
work. "
am heartily in favor of good
roads. and am in favor of the bond
issue, unless some other plan is
found to be better.
Would like to hear from some
one else on this question.
Serf.