The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-08-31
TAXES "ARE' HIGH ENOUGH !!

If the bond trustees should be paid out of the general fund
of the county, would not necessarily that the iage
would have to be raised to obtain the for that purpose
The road the fiscal year 1922 was 51a
mills the highest history county, yet
from actual observation cannot results that indicate that
that has been expended the county commissioners
to reduce the mge the taxpayers of Escamb
county then why don't they proceed to make cut they make
the
By naugurating campaign of efficiency and eliminating
Of the excessive overhead brought by the cube
method of spending the derived from the road
men that assessment sufficient to take of the
trustee commission could be made and yet the mage would be
higher than the Under such plan of
which believe the county commissioners would find feasible
if they would little of it, would not necessate dragging
the muchmened spectre before the taxpayers for vnca
ton purposes.
high enough there's contention that score
nothing but simple justice that the taxpayers should
benefit application of the principles of good business and
economical administration.
question of whether the bond trustees
compensated of the fund of the
the bond primarily for the to decide
time if appears that the decision that
will ultimately lead the greatest good for the people is
nothing and just those people that they know just
exactly what about be done And the right of free speech
usfs place the facts before them along with the
conclusions which he may draw from those facts.
Then the legality of the made by the commissioners
upon the opinion legal adviser the only question
fund.- The county attorney the bond fund.- while other
lawyers public officials familiar with the law out of the
general fund.
If the trustees the county clerk the board of
county commissioners pay the general fund.- and
they are refused it will litigation the courts. That is
the only question: but repeat that the tax
payers Escamba county will for this And the usual
order observed additional counsel will be employed and at the
countys expense
I'm most other counties state
pensaed from bond money! it has been said While The
Journal does not such counties off hand do under
stand that counties in the state that do not have to
pay their bond trustees out any fund furthermore
believe that Escamba county could appreciate
such condition Journal cannot how is that Escamba
county compelled pay from $4,000 to 100000 to its bond
trustees there pubicsprted who believe
would the issues without compensation other than the
sesasaction knowing that they had been the of
saving that much money their county Of there
might be surety but that easily arranged
to fall on their shoulders.
It was suggested that there will be enough left out of
the 100000 appropriation Gulf Beach Highway when
it completed to pay bond trustees But this the
fact that unless rigid system of put into play
on the other county projects system that will produce
results than produced since the million dollars
worth sold last December that OF
this will be needed complete those projects
And another thing agitation for change in the rout
ing of Highway through there will not be
enough left to apply any project with noticeable results
The people Escamba voted two million dollars worth of
bonds to construct good roads darsay if provision
had been included would have been defeated
whemingly.
disregard all that has before and to establish
precedent the apparently overwhelming legal opinion
grounds that the bond trustee commission Is part OF the
road program to mighty weak
upon which make the taxpayers large for litigation
And The Journal not positive that the county commits