People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — Gravel Roads. [ARTICLE]

Gravel Roads.

Editor Pilot:— Poir men who are afraid to vote for the gravel road tax should consider the fact that when the roads are bad the price of wood goes up. I have been informed that at Monticello since gravel roads have been made, wood is fifty | cents cheaper per cord. That j would be quite an item each J winter to a poor man, who ean- ; not purchase a supply in the fall |to dc his family all winter and thus be able to laugh at the man who asks him $3.50 to *4.00 per cord, when the mud is too deep for any one to haul. There are also a few men who think that men who do not pay tax should not be allowed to vote. The man who twists and turns and squeezes and pinches every one he can in order .hoard up a little money, is not the best man in a community. They hire men to cut wood at fifty cents per cord, but they do not sell it for any less than they did when they paid one dollar per cord for cutting it. The entire community will be proud of good roads when they are made and every public spirited citizen should be willing to aid the good cause not only with bw vote but bis money in the

way of taxes and he should do it cheerfully or he may mias the blessing as the people as well as “The Lord loves a cheerful giver.” Lawyers, ministers, physicians, teachers, business and connty and town officials, who have been aided by the public should in turn be willing to return some of their gains to the public that has so generously patronized them. Every one despises the stingy skin flint who shy lock like, wants the pound of flesh without regard to consequences. None of this tax if voted can be collected before January 1895, and then only one half between Jan. Ist, and the third Monday in April, 1895, and the other one half before November following. Those ■who wish to sell their farms and move where the mud is as deep or deeper will have many long months in which to do tlmt. A count of noses so far as completed, show's a good majority in favor of it, but the friends of good roads must not fail to w’ork and vote to keep out of the mire. Let us all wrork together aud bring hard roads out of hard times. Good Roads.