The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-06-05
WHAT is THE ANSWER?
Will the Kansas & Oklahoma rail-
road be builded?

road be builded?
The answer to this question is
now squarely up to the farmers who
own land adjacent to the proposed
line.
Liberal has done all that the law
allows.
The farmers of Liberal township
while not benefitting half as much
as will the farmers Of Oklahoma,
have done all they can,
The fate of the road now hangs
in the balance. A few of the farm
ers down across the Oklahoma line
can now either make the road fact
or they can kill the proposition.
We believe that some of the good
people down there have a mistaken
notion of the proposition, but be
that as it may, the road will not be
builded if the aid asked is not forth
coming, and that soon.
Mr.. Byers has a number of calls
to build roads where the people want
them bad enough to help build them
and he is putting them off until the
X. & Q. is finished. Whenever he
sees the chance to make it go failing
he will likely take on some of the
other propositions offered.
In the Springfield, Colorado, Her
aid this week appears letter writ
ten by Mr.. Byers to parties inter
ested in building a line through
Hugoton to Liberal from Springfield
In this letter he states that he is now
busy on the X. & o., and cannot do
anything until it is finished. The
people are very anxious for this
road and will come across literally
to get it, so it is likely that if pros
poets do not brighten up soon he will
talk business to them.
Mr.. Byers hesitated about tackling
this proposition on account of the
laws of Oklahoma not permitting the
issuance of bonds to aid road build
ing, and only because Of his person.
al interests, he being a land owner,
would he consent to put it through.
II this proposition falls through it
is going to be long time before any
one is going to start another, so we
would advise our friends along the
line to consider carefully before de-
Gliding the matter Let no flimsy
excuse, no personal matter, no mis-.
taken opinion influence you. Get
down to business proposition and
see where your interests lie. If the
road will add to the taxable valua-
tion of your township, if it will add
to the value of your land, if it will
reduce the cost of marketing your
crops, If it will establish closer mar
kets for both buying and selling, if
it will bring you closer to good
schools and churches, then it is a
benefit to you and you should sup
port it. If not you should turn it
down.
The average farmer is intelligent
enough to figure this out from dol
lar and cents standpoint, and he owes
it to himself and his neighbor and
his family to do so.
AS we said before, if the road is
builded, every man along the line
must do his part-the farmer as we'll
as the people of the towns. The lat
ter have spoken favorably, many of
the farmers have done the same.
Now is the time to figure-it may
be too late before long. Get busy
with that pencil and if you convince
yourself you are wrong get in touch
with the committee and tell them
you have changed your mind.
We believe this is a proposition
that will bear the closest inspection
and we believe that everyone would
be for it if he realized what it will
mean to him.
And we understand there are
few who think the road will go thru
they give or not. and to
these we would say that we have
known communities to lose roads be-
fore for thinking this same thing.
1t is a great deal like the gun that
is not loaded--it is most uncertain
to say the least, and the worst part
is that one does not learn the result
until it is too late.
Mr. Farmer it is up to you.