| Show ROAD MONEY it is strange but true that til the man who will finance his business sensibly and carefully who will bryand buy and sell a house with acumen actinic and wisdom who will choose liis ills bank with meticulous e care are and guard his personal finan cuil affairs 5 with utmost skill frequently throws caution to the winds when considering the raising and spend ing of money for roads it is so pitifully easy to arrange to have so someone else pay for a A bond issue to run fifty years puts the bu burden aden of paying on oil the men and women who conic come after us its while we use the this is bad enough as a matter of tin unsound sound economics but it is worse when the money so raised is so tin unwisely expended as to produce a road that wears out long before beford the bonds become due in such cases and there are arc many of them 1 the body politic finds itself in the position of pay ing for roads that no longer exist ind and faced with the additional necessity of rebuilding tile the road and maintaining it as well as paying the interest and finally the priti principal on the bonds that built ro roads ads that are worn out there are cases where long term bonds are arc justified and necessary but there are arc no cases where the expenditure of such funds is justified for anything less than a permanent manent road so lo located cited so built so planned as to length gradient width and location as to make it of service to the people to come as well as those who now use it it 11 has been said that there is is nothing permanent about any road except its location but this is only true when maintenance is an afterthought it is as unsound to build a road and let it ravel to pieces as it is to build a house and let it go unpainted and uninsured paint the house insure it repair it and it may inay stand for a hundred years or more mor e maintain the road as it is used aud and it should last indefinitely only such roads should be built with bond issue money and only such roads should be built with tile the money derived from town or county or state bonds as will serve town county and state for all time to come to do otherwise is to betray the trust of the helpless unborn |
