The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-07

cents which is the tax the city peo-
pie pay per ton-mile for most of
the hauling is toward the city mar
kets or shipping points, and this ex-
ira cost of hauling must be added to
the cost of the country reduce at the
farm, and so the city folks pay that
much more. The total is about $50
million dollars. There are As mil
lion people living in the cities and
towns of the United States, and they
pay this $50 million dollars, which
is over six dollars for every man,
woman and child.
Uncle Sam has not told it all
perhaps he is ashamed to show how
thoughtless some of his city newh-
ews are, especially those who live in
small cities like Pensacola, hum
dreds of miles from the big central
| markets. They have to send to
these big city markets for nearly
everything they eat and not only
pay the market price with the profits
of the broker, wholesaler and retail
er added, but they must pay the
freight on all these hundreds of
miles. No wonder the city cousins
complain of the high cost of living.
| Here is one tax you must pay un-
der the present conditions if you live
| in the city. "But why must we keep
on paying this awful tax of nine del
lars per year for every member of
the family and get nothing. for it 2"
| you ask. Because you keep on vot-
ing for people to make your laws,
/ impose your taxes, and spend your
money, some of whom never could
make anything for themselves, or
knew how to spend any money they
ever got hold of. You can not ex-
1 pect them to do better for you than
they could for themselves. They
will soon ask you to let them spend
million dollars for you on good
roads, but don't you ever do it until
: you consult your Uncle Sam. Let
i, your Uncle Sam tell you how some
of your other cousins got fooled the
, same way, and soon lost every cent
they put in; then how some of your
other cousins got the good roads, and
! made the roads more than pay fol-
themselves. Uncle Sam told me il
: we wanted good roads, they were
easy to get. If we will do just like
7 he says, he promises for every dollar
) we put up for good roads that he
! will give us another dollar to 60 with
it. If we will do it his way, he viii
t also send a good man who knows al
T about roads to help build them with.
e out wasting cent. Not only that
' but his plans include keeping the
e roads in good order after they ar.
E made, and the money is set aside a
1 the beginning for this purpose in :
D way that it can never be spent fol
s anything else.
e Think of the hundreds of thou
r sands of our own dollars that hav,
$ been spent on the roads of this coun
h ty alone, and then look at the road
t and see what you have got for you
: money. They have even spoiled som,
r of the natural good roads we had
S and spent our money to do it. /
would be cheaper to pay some of GU
2 good friends $4,000 per year to sta,
t at home than to give them offic
: where they waste ten times as much
D 1t does little good to elect one o
: two good men in body of bad ones
1t is more apt to spoil the good one
:. than benefit the bad Not only that
e incompetent office holders keep on
property from increasing in value
they keep our wages, salaries an
incomes in most cases half of wha
they are in some other parts of tn
country where they have taken tn
\ advice of Uncle Sam. He has toll
me and will gladly tell you of coun
ty after county in all parts of tn
United States, that formerly waste
s their opportunities and money JUS
as We are doing, that ia/two or tire