Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-02-28
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reply were it not numerous good
citizens like him taking their
view from the wrong angle and,
therefore, likely to be influenced
by such false logic.
The roads of any section OF
country are the best index to its
prosperity, and to the general
culture and happiness Of its peo-
pie, and to its value as factor
in the social and commercial
world. The passing stranger
correctly gauges a community In
these values by its roads. All
worth while sections of the civil
lied world have recognized this
fact from the days of the Romans
down to now. Wherefore. We
can never expect our part of tn,
country to reach the maximum OF
its commercial and social POSSIBLE
tiles until we have hard graded
reads. There is no argument OF
the other side of the question.
No community ever built grad
ed hard roads without bond is.
sues. 1t is the only way it ca,
be done. 1t takes big money t.
build such roads, and bond issue,
are the only means OF saving
considerable money on shor,
notice. The money can be ap
piled at once and the object real.
lied while we are living. Will,
we live we pay our part of it ano
enjoy the roads. When we ar,
gone our children pay part of tn,
cost in consideration of their en-
joyment of the ronds we shall be
queath to them. 1t is only fai
that the next generation SHOULD
share its part of the burden
since its people will share in tn
benefits.
AS long as good but misguidet
men like Slab" apply their logi
of 'possum hide" finance to tn
road question, just so long shaI
we founder in the mud and GU
country never amount to a hill o
beans. / admit we could hav
far better mud roads than W
have if the officers and peopl
would do their duty under tn
present law; but the best din
roads can never make our countr
amount to much more than
does now. They will not stay
repair. The expense of efficier
up-keep would in a few veal
pay a large share of the bone
required to build modern roads
Last year two neighbors hel
had fine cabbages worth at lea'
fifty dollars, that they could n,
use. There were no markets an
the cabbages stood where the
grew and rotted. If there hs
been modern roads the vegetable
would have scarcely matured al
til produce men in auto-trucl
would have been after them vii
competitive bids, right at Il
garden gates. l told them TIL
fifty or sixty dollars representt
the tax they were paying on OF
mud holes called roads. If it hi
been proposed to tax them fiji
dollars to build modern turnpike
they would have yelled murder
and broke for their old shot gun
Something like that happe
every year in every garden
Morgan county. Take lost pr
duce, broken wagons. crippl,
horses, and infinite loss of tin
and energy, reduce it all to d.
lars and cents, in actual valu
and it will pay the interest al
a large percentage of the sinkil
fund each year on the bigge
bond issue permitted by the la
then take into consideration t
advantages to schools, churche
general social intercourse al
public travel, besides untold 9th
advantages of good modern road
and you have Slabs" harangl
under the X-ray of good comm,
sense.
agree with Slab" that the
has been mismanagement
road affairs in the little attemp
we have made. But with boz
issue worth while we can devi
. the plan and find the men WI
will make our roads for US &c
nomically and successfully.
we have no such men we are
account and ought to go to Il