The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-01
State Board of Highway
Commissioners $18,25O
Was Spent for Supervision"
and ,$221.2O for Labor--AN
the Members of the "Good-
Thing" Club Are Boosting
the $3.50, 900 Bond Issue
Go to the Polls 7onorrou|
and Thwart the Effort to|
Put Another "Good THING"
Over on the Taxpayers.

Tomorrow the taxpayers of Silver county either will
willingly submit themselves gang road ma
chlhery grafers, political pendrs and swivel chair
experts they will empaicaly express their
Of plan which will force themselves and rising genera
ton TO struggle through the effort to bond
issue Of S25ooo0, which with the yearly interest," years
will have reached The supendo total of approximately $780,
ooO providing some Of the principal is not paid off in The
meanwhile.
AI what is there every probability that neither
The next few 2O years from now will there be any
ppreclabe mileage Of permanent roads il Silver Bow county
to show for the huge the people asked to hand
'e board o county incompeens and state board o high
Waymen.
proof than already exists il the minds of the
thinking taxpayers VI The county needed to strengthen the
general belief that the bond issue is not for good roads but
merely furnish county the state highway
board With hnrdcd thousands sq1ander
seessy noonpeeny and for the benefit Of themselves and
their friends the road machinery and road contracting graft
the half page advertisements published in yesterdays pa
pe's furnishes complete
Referring to the S25o0OO expected to be obtained from the
United States government the advertisement garngy tells the
taxpayers they Will get this sum FOR nothing If the county
is granted that the taxpayers rest assured that it will
be spent for nothing of benefit to the taxpayers just will
be the S250,OOO together with interest which the taxpayers
asked to go down into their pockets for.
The advertisements apparently in misleading effort to
make the taxpayers the dupes of the advocating the bond
issue, seeks to give The impression that The money will be
spent under federal spe1yson for the benefit OF the
people, say the federal supervision practically ends
when The appropriation is made Silver Bow county and the
money handed From then until the last dollar is frit
Tered away and falls into the Golfers Of the privileged few the
supervision is practically entirely in the hands of the state
board Of highvaymen The federal supervson comprises
perfuncOy oil the routes selected and OF the KIND OF
material TO be used
But according to the advertisement, there possibility
that the county will S25OOOO from the govern
There strong probability that the county receives
amy money from the government at ALL it will be sum consid
c1nby than S5oOOO and asked to take the word
o. the county it, that event the federal
money not forthcoming, OF the bonds will be sold
Contrasting the e-eecon promises Of the commissioners
which each pledged himself to honesty and real
business methods, with their post-elecon performances in
exravagance incompetence and worse, predomnaes
what warrant the taxpayers to put trust in the
ise Of county board? We predict that if the bond issue
spite of that the government money not forth
coming the S25OoOo goodly part Of it, at least will be
expended by the commissioners, Worllessy
Under the heading who Handles the Money!? the ad
>ertisemen laws all expenditures federal super
the acts of the state board Of hghWaymen 1t is
navey stated the county commissioners will be largely
in advisory capacity.
Truly, dear taxpayers it is sad commentary on coIdltols
in county when the acts of commissioners are
such to force Them in order put over bond issue to seek
to u the people into false sense OF security by spreading oe
impression that else and not the commissioners Will
have handling the money. 1t is admission from The
commissioners themselves, that they are eXravagan and IN
compel ent and that they The people know they
But the crownng why the taxpayers should unani
nous against the bond issue is the admission of the
that they expect to at the rate OF $4,000 per
mile such roads they build That III ITSELF is an absou
by the commissioners that they intend to sqande1
approximately from 5000 to Sl1ooo per mile on such ROADS
they may build.
LET us look into the matter bit.
To-day the stretch hard surfaced roadway in Silver
Row county is stretch of miles Harrison
This particular roadway built partly of particularly heavy
suracng and partly lighter snrfacg Despite extra heavy
traffic miles Of roadway have stood up we'll for
years and have been the pet argument OF the commission
and the road machinery gra1fer Tor more goou roads, anu
The Joy of motorists
However, instead of $4,000 mile the part Of the ar-
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