Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-03-07

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and had no automobile, Why :?
Because the man who doesn't live
on the Boone Way needs a road
more and is entitled to more con
sideration than the man who lives
on better road. Now, it is rather
hard to get over the former of
ficials promising that in the event
the bondissue carried there would
be four roads built out of Mt.
Vernon and after it carried moth
ing was done toward a road 10
Somerset. and we agree that the
Ieople ia the Level Green and
Quail sections was treated unfairly.
Ii the road had only reached
mile from Mt Vernon in their di-
re ton and they got as much o d
as was built in any other direc
ton they would have been sat s.
fed to the extent that We would
have heard no word of complaint
1t is not question in the minds
of these people whether the road
funds were squandered or spent
judiciously but they know they
didn't get a square deal. The
people of Brodhead are anxious to
see better roads toward Quail and
Level Green and will do all in
their power in that direction, but
we cant do anything until there
is assurance that We will have
funds and we cannot get funds
unless the coming election car
ries. We are quite sure that a
great majority of the voters
around US don't understand the
main issues and we want to offer
this explanation of the situation
as we see it We are now paying
20 cents on each one hundred
dollars worth of taxable property
toward our bonded Indebtedness,
and we will continue to paythis
amount whether the election car
ries or not, as the election has
nothing at all to do with this part
of it. We owe debt and this is
the way we mean to pay it, then
we are now paying another 20
cents for general road purposes,
and this 20 cents will no longer
be paid provided the election car
ries, but we will pay like amount
oy reason of having voted it. We
are also paying S cents on each
one hundred dollars of taxable
property for bridges and this
amount will remain the same, so
it is easily seen that in the event
the election carries the rate of
taxation for road purposes will be
the same we are now paying-no
more, no less, and this is the
amount we have been paying since
the bond issue carried The ifs
cal Court has done all in it's power
to convince the voters that every
district will share equally Q with
each other in the distribution of
the funds according to the size of
the district They have obligated
themselves to this end and we
have no reason to feel they will
not carry out their promise to the
letter. Some say that the present
Court may carry out all they have
agreed to but before five years
there will be changes by reason
of their term Of Office having ex-
pired ard that the next Court
may raise. our taxes. The Fiscal
Courts are composed OF men, mer
who own property. men who
pay taxes. men that are no more
anxious to pay burdensome taxes
than you are. men that cannot
impose a tax burden upon others
without imposing a like burden
upon themselves, then why argue
in this fashion? We were recent
ly talking to our good friend. D
F. ,Hamm. who lives in Spiro
Bromo section, and Mr.. Hamm
said, when I lose confidence in
the county officials, those who
have been elected by the people
to manage the county's affairs. I
will leave the county,, and if everv-
body would do that there would
be some moving done right away
for we know men who says they
have no confidence in the man
agement of our county and none
in themselves. We also have
businesf men. merchants, who are
fighting low down the coming
election, yet they expect those
who patronize them to drive miles
thi u the mud and over all kinds of
bad roads to spend their hard
earned money with them. Such
progressive merchants should be
boycotted for they understand
the law and know it is to their
best interests, vet they let their
prejudice rule them and will stand
for what they know to be a dis.