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Show MODERN' ROAD TOLLS. Not ko many years ago the country was honeycombed with toll roads. The motoriiit, in the course of a days' travel, could pay out a good many dollars for the privilege, of using thern. Now toll roads are few and fir between. be-tween. But the motorist still pays a toll, and a far greater one than he paid in the old day3. The modern toll is the gasoline tax. According to Webster's dictionary, a toll is a tax or due paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a highway. high-way. In states where a three-cent tax is in effect, the average driver must thus pay a cent every time he goes four miles. Under a six-cent tax he pays a cent every two miles. In the latter instance, if he drives 400 miles a day, he must pay two dollars in tolls. Their tolls now aggregate more than $500 000,000 a year, and they are constantly increasing. Rumbles of seven, eight and ten-cent tax rates are heard, and even at present the gas tax almost equals the price of the fuel in many places. The drivers of the old days did a lot of complaining complain-ing about toll roads, but, compared to the drivers of the present, they didn't know what a toll really could be! |