Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-06-24
INADEQUATE

following reasons:
Sum Is. not sufficient for the i'm.
provements designated.
Too many commissioners.
Selection made of commissioner
without getting their consent to serve.
Too many opportunities for waste OF
money in salaries and expenses. Some
say it will reach $40. 900 of the 800,
900, others, one an official of the court
from Battle Creek has been quoted as
saying that one-fourth of the 500, 600,
or $25, 900, could be wasted. By waste
we mean money not actually spent on
the roads in road building
By the provisions of bill Whitwell
may be off the route one half mile, If
road TURKS off at railroad crossing
south of Whitwell, and crosses to rear
of ridge neal river to get to new iron
bridge. In that event, what advsn-
tage would the route be to Whitwell,
except to enhance the value of the
farm it would cross hundreds Of dol
larsH
To pass this bill means higher taxes.
A So 40 rate is given as necessary
concomitant if the bond bill passes
This means more interest for money
sharks.
To pass this bond bill so as to have
the long route thru the county for the
Dixie Highway is just as much an act
of injustice against those who prefer a
short route as it would be against
those who prefer the long route should
the short route be chosen. The injus-
tice would be even. But the taxes
wouldn'tl For while the extra taxes
would be light to complete the short
route. the taxes would never be suffi
cient to complete and maintain the
long route in the style demanded by
its originators.
Do the people want the Dixie High
wayr To be sure they do. They are
hungry for it, just as much as some of
the promoters are who may see in it
chances for remuneration for them
selves. But the people do not wish to
pay the two prices for the luxury, es-
pecially since the bill is so inadequate
that it never mentions in any portion
of it that they, the people, shall have
the right to accept or reject it. Peo-
pie of this day have common sense
much more than some of our great
men give them cerdit for. and since
in this section it is struggle for the
building of homes, it has sharpened
their wits immensely and both Mr.
Bondholder and Mr. Bondseller are
not going to be supported near as
much in the future as they have been
in the past. Us,ts te pl,tra doceat is an
old Latin proverb, and means "Exper-
fence will teach you many things, and
in this event it has taught the people
of Marion County. to avoid bonds.
The experience of the recent bond is
sue is enough to pull the wool off of
anyone's eyes.
There ale lots of other points why
the bond bill is inadequate. but we
have not the brains nor ability to de-
velop them. Possibly the South Pitts
burg Hustler with its special Dixie
editor, could give us some of
them, if it would. While so doing it
might tell us why it is the bond bill
is so intricate and so voluminous and
muddy, and "dad-lammed obfustica-
ted" that it's reputed author couldn't
quote it correctly at meeting of the
county COURT
The bond bill is inadeq uate. Ex-
anime it from every point of the CON-
pass, north, south, east and west, and
from every point between, that an old
salt could declaim when boxing the
and it's inadequaoies will be
found. Get under it, and more made
luacies will appear, slightly muddy |
like a machine driven over our $780,
BOO bond pixies after a rain. Get a spy
glass and examine it from above aud |
more inadequacies appear like fly |
,pecks upon sheet Of paper. Why.
It is SO cussedly, ornately, deliberately,
simultaneously, ingeniouslv, thorough.
y, generously, magnificently, volum-
nously, brilliantly. verbosely and stu
1endously decorated with inadequacies
hat its originator or originators can
Tot tell in written or SPOKEN words
Exactly what there is in it. 1t is
nonumentally inadequate, and they
,now it.