Beaver County News | 1918-03-08 | Page 4 | Very Poor Showing

I VERY POOR SHOWING THE result of the late bond election , again demonstrates the apathy of the people for their right of the voting franchise. It demonstrates again that they are too willing to allow a few to do their thinking and to say what shall and what shall not be done in public matters. Beaver county has a population popula-tion of perhaps 8,000 people. Not all of these could vote. But a few more than three hundred were all that took enough interest to give expression to their desires at the polls last week. We believe the decision expressed by the few in this case was correct at this time, but that is not the point. Every one able-to get to the polls and entitled to a vote should have given expression to their best judgment as to the question ques-tion of voting a tax upon themselves for a number of years to do certain things proposed.