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ANENT GOOD ROADS AGAIN
The Kenton <'o. Courier, one of our
newsy exchanges, in a late issue,
saw proper tn criticize a recent
leading editorial published in The
Tribune, which a»lv<»cat«vi a bond
issue to improve our county mad«,
rather than to continue our pranefit
inefficient and wasteful system
The Courier literally mopped the
earth with The Tribune and. ad
vanced argument which, to itself at
least, annihilated any ana all argu
ments favorable to bond issues for
public improvements
We conclude that The Courier is
utterly opposed to l»>nda with which
to build permanent roads, first, last
and all the time and.is. therefore
opposed to
building permanent
roads, for, to undertake |>«-rman«-nt
road construction under our present
tax levys. is simple nonsense.
The Courier indicates that it
would favor building small section»
of permanent roads yearly. Hut.
as everyone knows, these small
sections of road would lie valueless
to the travel, the people would not
stand for it an instant
Anyway,
every farmer would want this
section of nard road Iwfore his door
and. unless he was sure of getting
it. would oppose the scheme.
Hut suppose the hard surface
mads do cost |N.000 to I
per
mile? The interest cost on that
sum would tn* not more than | | im >
to |600 per mile per year
Thus
Unn county could hard surface .HiHi
miles of road, yet the cost would t»e
no greater than at the prearnt.
The profit would be to double the
capacity of freighting teams which
for the average
farmer would
amount to S100 annually, sav noth
ing about less damage to team and
vehicle.
It is a fact, no great public en
terprise has ever l»een undertaken
in the past nor will l»e in the future,
without borrowing money with
which to finance it
Without selling
bonds our great railway systems,
steamship lines, great monufactur-
ing enterprises, etc., would never
have materialized
Rich as our
government
is,
with
unlimited
authority to levy taxes, we borrow
ed money with which to build the
Panama cannl. Are not our public
highways of as much immediate
importance as any of the above?
Will they not benefit the farmer’s
pocket as much as either? The
Courier's piecemeal plan would
favor a very few people at the
expense of the many. It would
give Far mem A H or C hard sur
face roads to his market town and
force D. E. and F. to continue
plodding along in the mud
The
Tribune would build for all alike.
Thia can only lw accomplished by
borrowing money. Nor will hard
surface r»ada wear out. as the
Courier, suggests, in 12 to 16 years,
if they are properly looked after.
They should hr as good at 15 years
aa when first built.
The Tribune is opposed, as a rule,
to bond iau<S, unless the public,
which i*ays the interval, receives
commensurate benefit and. also,
when a desirafde and profitable to
the peopl«* improvement can l>T se
cured in no other way
We must
either abandon all thought of perma
nrnt highways, else face bonds tn
secure them. The l«eople cannot
provide enough money by any other
plan.
We say again if Cornmiusiooer
Butler’s statement u correct con
cerning the cost |>er yard for hard
surfacing, every county in the state
of Oregon can well afford to build
that class of roads, for they are
cheat»-r
the end
Citing our own Linn county
again, at our preiwnt rate of road
tax. »<■ will have tiaid in 15 years
S2,260,00<). and have but '.ndiffereut
roads to bequeath to posterity to
gether with an annual road tax of
1150.000 yaarh
On the other
hand, we would l»-«|U«-ath a g<»»l
hard surface system, with a no
greater road tax. with thia differ
ent*
The tax would he used in
paying interest on the bonds but we,
the people of the pr«-M-nt dav would
have the use of these roads for the
15 years.
We know that many people ob
ject to l»-<|ucathirg a debt to pos
terity. but if we hand down better
road«. more valuable farms and a
higher state of civilization in genet,
al. we will not have <wen deerelict
in duty.
LETS PULL TOGETHER
Everybody desires that .Main
street shall be improved
A large
majority of the bu»m*wt men and
residents along the street <>n the
north side, have signed |»-titn»n»
asking the city council tn make the
necessary order, Some who have
not signed the petitions. would like
the street improved, but do not
w ish to bear the expense of doing
it. Others, liecaum- they are oppos
ed in a general wav to the men who
are agitating the matter and circu
lating the petitions.
Now why cannot we all drop any
personal feeling we may have and
work harmoniously for this greatlv
needed improvement? We all feel
like appologizmg to th«- stranger
within our gates in the winter time,
(»•cause of the muddy condition of
our main throughfarv
All Would
like to have it in better condition
It does not present our town in a
favorable light to the homeseeker
anti has a depressing effect on the
value of properly as well.
We are told by tiarties who have
ascertained the fact, that the coat
per front f<»>t will be 11.50, making
the n»it per lot of 50 front feet but
675. Thia, if desired, can lie divid
ed into five equal annual payments.
Arranged in this manner, the cost
will rmreas no one and give us a
surfacing, almost equal tn paving.
The b«nt and probably the most
important feature of the improve
ment, will I»- the proper grading,
ao that the street will have drain
age
Even with the street in its
present condition, if properly drain
ed. much of the winter mud would
be avoided.
Surely when so greatly needed
improvement is proposed, there
should not be a dnwenting voice.
Indseil every property owner and
the city council should give it an
eager support. It will add to the
value of the business and dwelling
property along the street, to health,
comfort and general appearance.
It will show to the traveling public
that Scio is not a dead one. but one
of
the enterprising progressive
town« of the valley
HOW ABOUT THE
Spring Time is FORD Time
REPUBLICAN PARTY7
In talking about 1916 there are
tw<> things that may well !»• remem-
hatred
Tlw democratic party is not
dwindling and the republican party
is not making go-»!
The Hhiladel-
phis Record points <»ut that the
Ib-rnocrat* gained in last year’s
<-h<ctions in thirty-one states and lost
in ten states, and that Sweitzer
with all his handicap« got the votes
of 162.000 men in Chicago's mayor*
ably election last month, as compar
ed witii Wilson's 120.000 votes in
1912. Those who are f«»nd of figures
mav not«- that th«- solid south <count
ing Missouri! has ¡65electoral votes
that Nebraska. Nevada and Okla
homa ’ democratic in 1906 and 19121
make it 1H6. and that Massachusetts.
New York and Ohio add srven more
than ar«- necensarv to elect
The
-ituation in those thn-r »tales is in-
tcrtwling
Mawiachusetts put in a
democratic governor last year, but
her hea\ ilv republican legislatur«-
ha» made a I-a-1 record for autocratic
rule ami »tandpat legislation. Re
publican (governor Wilson of Ohio
is conducting what the Cleveland
"Plain-Dealer" <l«wrd»es as "a pro
gram of unashamed office broker
age." "a reign of spoils unequal«*!
in the recent history of th«- state."
Th«- work of the l«-gi»lature ’’ha»
tnwn largely destructive "
New
York, where William Karnes is suing
t'olonel Roosevelt for lil»-l. and th-
rags of machine government are l»e-
mg washed with a vengeance, is
even worse what with undoing the
human«- and progressive legislation
of Hugh«-« ami Glynn. hasty offic«-
grabbing, and muddled financ*
In
all thr»* of th«*«r stat«*» the rrpuldi-
cans have harked l>ack toward the
old ways of fifteen or twenty years
ago. they are not doing their work
well, ami they are not doing it in
popular Interest
The very charge»
they will make against the demo
crats at Washington wtll I»- urge!
against them in their own home
towns
Senator Hoi ah has already
i»»ued a plain w arning to this effect
It may I»- that some urnqs-cified re
publican can Iw elected offhand to
the presidency in 1916 on a platform
of privilege«! prosperity and machine
politics, but the above facta had
better l>r consider«*! licforr making
an) prophecnw
Collier's Weekly.
Germany can yet do one thing
which will »tamo her as thr most
Itarbarous and cruel civilized nation
of the earth
If she will simply
drop liomha loaded with poisonous
gas»-« u|»>n unfortiti««d and unde
fended towns from her air ships,
«h«- will prove to the world that she
lielieve» any ami all means by which
she can injure an enemy people, is
fair in war. She is rapidly losing
everv i estage of sympathy which
neutral nations may have felt for
her
1915
Maat Reputava CauntHeu.
The ten rountrte» with the large««
population« are. In the order named,
t'hlna India. Rua«!« the Cnltsd Btatea.
German«. lapan. the Tnlted Kingdom
Frati-• Italy and Anatrla
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