The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-07-15

more money for his family. The
strangest fact of all is that the
farmer would be the one that
would be the hardest to convince
of proposition of this kind.
There are some that will try to
misconstrue our figures and show
you that we are trying to misIead
the people, when they know that
that their calculations are wrong
and erroneous.
In none of our articles, except
in the first one, and that was to
attract the attention of the peo-
pie, did we mention the acreage
proposition. In our article No.
3, we prepared a table showing
the amount of the principal and
the amount that was set aside to
pay off the bonds. There is no in
terest on a bond after it is paid off.
The entire amount that you will
be required to pay on this is forty
cents on each hundred dollars
of your assessment. That is what
a four mill levy means. 1t is pos
sible that this $l50,o00 could be
paid back in twenty years on
three mill levy. A four mill levy
will pay this bond with interest
and all of the expense incidental
thereto in eighteen years and leave
81 500 in the treasury, not tax
ing into consideration the in
creased population. or the in
creased valuation of the real es-
tate in the county. 1t won't be
any more than this and it won't
be any less than this, but it will
mean this, that the expense
of maintenance on these roads
that are constructed VIII not be as
great as it is at the present time.
After a careful study of the
assessment rolls it shows that the
average farmers assessment does
not exceed FIVE hundred dollars.
Forty cents on the hundred dol
lars would make his taxes exactly
two dollars per year, not on one
acre of land, or one COW, but on
everything that he has, that is, all
of them as an average. OF course,
if your assessment is more than
five hundred dollars, your taxes
would be more accordingly, and if
your assessment is less than five
hundred dollars your taxes would
be less accordingly. There is no
chance to misunderstood this, if
you want to be exactly fair with us
and your neighbor. You will find
a great many people who are al
ways willing to block any move
ment for the betterment of the
county, that are deslrous to stop
anything that is for the general
good, for only selfish motive in
view.
In laying out the roads, in order
to get this before the people, we
selected what we thought were
the routes that would best serve
the greatest number of people.
There is no doubt but what we
were in error in some of our
routing, but all of this will be de-
termined by Road Commission
to be appointed by the Board of
Supervisors, together with the
assistance of a competent engineer.
The Road Commission being the
only ones that would have the
right to locate these roads. There
fore, our map is only suggestive
and is not binding, and would in
no way determine the location of
these roads. The thing that we
are after is TO get the people of
the County started in building
better roads, getting them to i'm
prove their farms, growing every
thing on the farm that they need
to keep their families and feed
their stock; getting them to put
in crops brings money to them in
the Spring and Summer months
as well as in the Fall, creating
greater desires for better educa-
ton, creating greater desires for
developing our young people in
music and in literature; developing
our churches and our Sunday
Schools, and creating a general
desire among the people for some
kind of steady and renumerative
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