The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-10-22

the amendment we no longer pay a
two-mill tax to the state, which is now
between $4,000 and $4,000 annually.
Without the amendment, we will have
to pay this tax, and probably get no
return from the state, though We may
get some federal aid. But the question
arises, how are we going to get federal
aid, unless the state raises fund to
match the federal monies Pensacola
Journal.
The esteemed Times Union in it's
Sunday edition devotes nearly three
of it's columns to the discussion of the
bond issue, and finally in line with the
esteemed Tampa Tribune, ends its
argument in the following significant
sentence:
Under the plan the Times-Union
proposes, which is practically the law
as it stands i.
We all know what that is. We know
how futile the present state law has
been. If the counties that have any
thing like the appearance of good roads
had rot taken the matter In their own
hands, the state would have no more
good roads than can now be found in
those counties that are without them.
The present state plan has proven
a failure and in all probability will
continue so. That is the answer to the
Unions labored argument.
Again that paper says:
1.-The figures to follow will show
that the question on which the people
Of this state are divided is whether we
shall make cur children pay for roads
for our use, though by doing so they
will have only about one-fourth as
great a mileage for their own use, Or
wheather we shall build roads as we
can pay for them, increasing the mile
age over which we can ride year by
wear and leaving to the next genera
ton. paid for in full. system of hard
roads the equal Of the system OF any
state in the Union.
If the plan proposed by the bond adj
vocates is adopted our children will
pay no more fer the use Of these good
roads than we are paying. They Will
nav lust a little Increase on their auto
mobile licenses and an extra pen
nv CT half penny on their gasoline.
That is all.
And when these children arrive on
the stage of action what will they
find?
They will find already constructed
these great public thoroughfares; they
will find already constructed and paid
for costly public buildings of all de-
scriptions: State capitols, court hous-
es. custom houses, treasury buildings,
tails, penitentiaries, hospitals, asylums
for unfortunates of all kinds, churches
cathedrals, schools. colleges, universe
ties, public libraries, parks, play
grounds and hundreds of other things
that. the generations before them
had to dig down in their pockets and
pay for.
Surely with this rich legacy it will
not bankrupt them to pay slight in
crease for license tags on automobiles
and an infinitesmal tax on gasoline
for the pleasure they will derive in JOY
riding over an unbroken chain of good
roads leading from state to state
across cur wonderful continent.
Most of the opposition against the
1 proposed bond amendment that has
fallen under our observation is ground
ed on the belief that the legislature
can not be trusted; that the state
highway commission can not be trust
ed: that the incoming governor who
is clothed with the power of appoint
ment to and removals from office can
not be trusted. The whole opposition
rests almost entirely on the want OF
confidence in our public servants, and
yet men are just as honest, just as
efficient as at any time in our history.
We are glad that we have not lost all
faith in our fellows. To lose all
semblance Of faith shows a bad state
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