The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-10-01


how else are they to be built and how
non-interest bearing bonds are to be
marketed ?-Ocala Banner.
Possibly the Chief doesn't come un-
der the above mentioned papers. We
are not opposed to building good
roads by the bond method but we are
opposed to granting the Legislature
the right to bond the State to the linn
it. Polk county bonded for her own
roads and will have the bonds to pay.
Winter Haven district bonded to build
her lateral roads and will have the
bonds to pay. Now would it be right
to make the taxpayers here help
build roads in localities that have re-
fused to vote bonds to build roads.
Honestly now, Father Harris would
it? We have always noticed you are
pretty clear thinker and usually fair
to others. Whenever some provisions
is made so that communities that
have built roads for themselves will
an equal footing with communities
that have not we will support the
bonding proposition. Isn't that really
fair. Good roads are a good invest
ment. They mean much to Florida
but all the taxable property in the
state should help pay for them on
some equal basis, This proposition
isn't fair to communities that have al
ready bonded and built their roads,
Winter Haven Chief
If the amendment is adopted this
paper has faith to believe that the
commission appointed to carry out its
provisions will be composed of up.
right, fair-minded men who will to the
very best of their ability deal out even
handed justice towards all sections.
The chief object is to build main
highway from one end of the state
to the other and as many more as the
necessary funds are provided. The
lateral roads will, of course, be the
work for the counties.
Under the McRae system all can be
built without the tax payers carrying
very heavy burden.
Who Will Benefit More?
Advocates of bonding at any price
want to build 5000 miles of roads in
Florida at an admitted cost of $40,-
600 mile. They tell us that the
man who benefits most from good
roads is the man who has an auto
mobile and who, when he gets out of
his city office in the afternoon, wants
to spin over miles and miles Of good
roads. And they propose to bond
that fellow and his automobile until
there is not enough of it left uncov-
cred to mortgage for repairs at the
first garage it runs up against. Well
maybe they are right, but we doubt
it.
We have had an idea for long
time that the man who will benefit
most from good roads is. the man
through whose land, or by whose land,
that road will run, and we find just
short paragraph in the Eustis Lake
Region, which makes us more and
more certain of our position, and leads
US to ash a very embarrassing ques.
ton.
The Eustis Lake Region says:
Talked to a fellow along a new
brick road highway and he said his
land was worth S. an acre before the
road was built, and his neighbors are
now selling the same land for $50
and SIS an acre. Can't induce him
to sell at any price"
Now, for that question: Mr. Bank
Clerk, in the city, how much more is
your flivver going to be worth after
a good road is built by that fellows
farm Tampa Tribune
Mr. Tribune
After the road in question is built
my flivver vii be worth more after
five years Of service over the good
road than sixty days over the poor
read, and besides every time l put
ten gallons OF gas in the tank get
,210 miles over good roads and 120
to $50 miles over POOR roads. and my
tires last three times as. long over
good roads as over poor roadside
sides l get some comfort in riding
over good roads. In other words,
expect to gain $50 for every 81 ex-
ira license fee the good roads viii
cost me.
Please be sensible in your argu-
ment-be broad-and not try to run
down our threats that an extra S. a
year license fee will break US. Ny
dear sir, the flivver people will vote
solidly for the good roads PROPOSE