The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-21
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Useless 20 waste time In setting
wut the desirabllity OF hard roads.
Everybody admits a.: but respect.
rally refuse 20 accept the statment
that any system 81 roads built with
the proposed bond issue Of one and a
kalf million dollars will double the
value Of land In Marion county. I
refuse to believe that II viii even
add % per cent 20 the value Of our
lands.
I'm the 1Tst place the whole bond
Issue. one and a half million dollars,
with all the outside money that bond
advocates tempt as with, will not
snake the roads we are promised
Doubtless we win get the Dixie high
way. upon which Il Is proposed TO
spend one third of the total bond is
sue. but the remaining million, or
10 cover the roads contemplated. and
which the people living along those
roads expect cannot make roads OF
sufficient Width and of lasting
character under present conditions.
We will then owe one and a half
million dollars and have a good Dix
Se highway road, the rest OF the roads
Of insufficient width and poor char
acter In a word. just such a make
shift, expensive, and poor set of roads
as we are now familiar with.
Is there a man who can even run
n two horse farm today and hire it
done, as conditions now are? We are
ace to face with actual conditions
of high cost Of eevrything and no
labor. Is there any argument at all
10 ask us when these conditions will
changer Would you put to sea in
leaking boat simply because you
. pouid not get better ole, when you
could stay on airy land e safety?
Are you going to vote a bond issue
m the fact of what your common
sense tells you, merely because some
Aond advocates ask you when con.
ditions will not. get better? Remem-
Der you can put off this bond issue
for year, for two years, for what
ever time you please, and vote bond |
issue when you get ready, but if you
vote it now and find your million and !
q half dollars wasted you cannot undo !
the matter. You will have to stand |
1T. Grin and pa ytaxes. And how
much are those taxes going to be?
y Under the proposed bond issue you
viii pay interest on S75 bonds for ten
years amounting to $1S7 10000; S75
bonds for Is years amounting to |
1921 $4,000, and on $50 bonds for 20
years amounting to $3.50, 900, a to-
tai of one million, two hundred and
eighteen thousand, seven hundred
and fifty dollars, and in addition pay
the bonds themselves. one million, five
hnndred thousand dollars, making a |
total Of two million, seven hundred
land eighteen thdasand, seven hun.
Sred and fifty dollars. Do not let
anybody tell you that your taxes will
not be very much increased. Your
1919 county taxes. all told, outside of
the sub-schools. is twenty one and
half mills, yielding $167,42O.OO. You
will have TO be taxed, in addition,
mind you. to pay OF your bonds and
interest. and this will come to an
average of about $15o.937.OO a year.
In addition. remember. to what you
are now paying You taxes will not
he doubled. but Il looks 10 me as
though they would be increased over
90 per cent. They tell US that we
are going To- loan part OF our bond
money To the banks but am figuring
ON what We will have 90 be taxed.
and what we know We will have To-
pay. whether we loan our money OF
not
Ask yourself right here a question:
Sit down quietly and put some hard
thinking into t. Are we. when We
have mortgaged our county mp to the
eyes. because that Ia what We are
facing. are We going to get under
conditions Ithat stare us in the face
anything pke the system Of roads that
bond men would have Us believe? /
absolutely refuse to believe that We
viii. except the Dixie highway We