The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-05-03
PEOPLE URGED
TO VOTE AGAINST
The Proposed 100000
Bond Issue.
THINK It WOULD Be RU|N0Us
To the County's interests and
An Additional Burden To
the Taxpayers.
VERPY STRONG APPEAL IS MADE
To the Voters OF Ohio County:

On the goth day of May, 1916,
the voters of Ohio county will be
called on to vote on the question as
to whether or not the county should
contract a bonded Indebtedness in
the sum of three hundred thousand
dollars, ($300,0OO), for the pur-
pose of Having good roads" Now
We desire to say that we believe in
having good roads, but not any more
costly roads than We are able to pay
for, and we do not believe that we
should contract a debt that we
would be unable to pay, because the
inability and failure to pay would
end in destruction to the county.
Now we think that to vote this
great Indebtedness is not the right
thing to do, and we want to give a
few of the many reasons for our so
thinking.
there is large amount of hill land
in the county on which taxes have
been and are being paid, that is
worthless, because the cultivator
and owner of such land gets no
more for what he can grow on such
land than what he could get for his
team and labor working by the day.
The same is true of quantity Of
low swamp land that is too wet, and
to burden these farmers with an ad-
ditional taxation to pay this great
bonded indebtedness would be ruin
Gus to them. While it is a fact that
all farmers of the county having bet
ter and more productive land to cul-
tivate, are now burdened with more
taxes than they can afford to pay
and ought to pay; the same is true
of all the other taxpayers of the
county. We think that the people
who got up this proposition to vote
this big bonded indebtedness are the
capitalists of the county and the
Ohio county road politicians and Off
cials, and We are informed that some
of these road politicians, and road
officials have said that the voting
of this bond Indebtedness on the
county would not cause the tax-pay-
ers of the county to have more tax
to pay than they are now paying.
but We fail to see how this can be
true, when the county Is now, and
has been for many years, getting
more in debt and the county is now
largely in debt and We can't see
how the county can pay even its
present large Indebtedness without
adding more property and poll-tax
on the taxpayers of the county;much
less, very much less, how the tax
payers of the county can be made
to think for a moment that they
can pay the principal and in
tercst on three hundred thousand
dollars (S3OO,0OO), without
great deal more tax on the already
largely oyerburdened taxed people of
Ohio county. Great Scott! the bonds
with interest might be more than a
million dollars and We can not think
where We, the people of Ohio coun-
ty, are to get the money from to pay
such an enormous amount of money
with such poor land. on the average.
to grow crops.
We think that IL these great
amount of bonds are issued. that the
road official politicians Will get
great deal of 1t in commissions, &c.
Think how much money has already
been paid to road official polinic-
fans with but little results. We would
say to the man who expects road
Office. that you may not get the
LOB" and II you have an Office now.
you may not hold it. and We would
say to the man who may expect
job of work on the road, you. too, as
the road politician. will have opposi-
tion and you may not get the job;
but you will have the more tax to
pay all the same II II carries. Such
a great tax voted on the people of
Ohio county. will not only keep peo-
pie from coming in the county to
permanently locate. but will cause
people to leave the county and Ohio
county will be in a similar, II not
Identical or in worse fix. than was