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BOROUGH OFFlCERb.
Burgess. B, D. Irwin,
Justices of the Peace 0. A. Randall, D.
W. Clark.
Councximen.J. W. Landors, J. T. Dl,
G. It. Robinson, Win. Riuearbsugb,
K. J. Hopkins, O. K. Watson, J. D,
Davis.
Constable L. h. Zuver.
Collector W. H. Hood.
School Directors Wr O. Itnel, J. K,
Clark, 8. M. Henry, Q. Jainieson, D. H.
Blum.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Member of Congress W. J. Hulings.
Member of tiewUeJ. 1C. P. Hall.
Assembly K. R. MecbttUK.
President Judge W. D. Hinckley.
Associate Judge Samuel Aul, Joseph
M. Morgan.
Prothonotary, Register A Recorder, te.
-8. K. Maxwell.
Sheriff Wm. H. Hood.
Treasurer W. H. Brar.ee.
Commissioners Wm. H. Harrison, J.
C. Soowden, II. H. McClellan.
District Attorney M. A. Oarrlnger.
' Jury Commissioners J. B. Eden, A.M.
Moore.
Coroner Dr. M. 0 Kerr.
County uditor-Oeorge H. Warden,
A. C. Gregg and S. V. Shields.
County Surveyor Roy 8. Braden.
County Superintendent J. O. CarBOn.
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Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
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Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a.
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Preaching In M. E. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. W.S. Hurton.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO TUB CONSTITUTION , SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OB THE
COMMONWEALTH OB PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
CWMMONWEALTH,: IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE1 XVni OF THE
CONSTITUTION. - '
Number One.
. V.,A. JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
Issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the Improve
ment of the highways of the Com
monwealth. Section 1. Be It resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in Qeneral Assembly met, That the
following amendment to the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same is hereby, pro
posed, in aevcordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof:
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency In rev
enue shall never exceed, In the aggre
gate at any one time, one million of
dollars," be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies oi rev
enue, repel Invasion, suppress insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, in the aggregate
at any one time, one million of dol
lars: Provided, however, 'in at the
General Assembly, Irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to Ibsuo
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of Improv
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT MCAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
Beven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section 1. Be It resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
6ectlon 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: "Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
Impairing of Hens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
"Changing the names of persons or
places:
"Changing the venue In civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:.
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
"Granting divorces:
"EMBting1 new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the,
powers and duties of officers In coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion of school districts:. - -
"Changing the law Of desoeu or
.7. .'X'
olcffoTof or changing the 'rules
evidence In, any judicial proceeding
or inaulrv before K. courts, aldermen,
Justices of the peace; sheriffs, commls-
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
In chanoetr.,K-ther tribunals,
of judgments, or prescribing the effect
of Judicial sales of real estater
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and. duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public Bchools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
Mnoney for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties In interest,
to be recited In the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, asso
elation or individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or Immunity, or to
any corporation, association or Indi
vidual the right to lay down a railroad
track.
"Nor shall the General Assembly In
directly enaot such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may be passed)
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges In any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor where the
courts have Jurisdiction to grant the
same or give the relief asked for."
bo as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of penons ot
places:
Changing the venue In civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or in
corporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounds
rie between this and any other Slste:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting ot
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township llneB, bor
ough limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or buc
ces ilon:
Regulating the practice or jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence In, any Judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, Jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
In chancery or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of Judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
Uo schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate ot Interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited In the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the, treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
ay regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labcr,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety of persons employ
ed bv the State, or by any county,
city, borouitli, town, township, school
rli-triot, fvlllaee, or oiher civil di
vision of the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or service for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or individual any Bpecial or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such BDeclal or local
law by the partial. repeal of a petieral law
but lawa repealing local or special Bets
may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges In any case
where the granting of Buch powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT MCAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
'''tVopbsing an amendment to section
thretiMDf. article eight oi tne consti
tution of Pennsylvania. '
Section 1. Be it resolyed by the
Hous.9'f Representatives of the Com-
rn&a 1th o Pennsylvania (If the
Senate concur). That the following 1.
nroDosed as an amendment to the Con-
stltutlon of the Commonwealth of
.Pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof: ,
r ' Section 2. Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All judges elected by the electors ot
the State at large Way be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections forjudge of the courts
for the several Judicial districts, and
for county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be held on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday ot No
vember in each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of all
the members of each House consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always be held In an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 3. All Judges elected by
the electors ot the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for Judges ol
the courts for the several Judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward, bor
ough, and township officers, for regu
lar terras of service, shall be belli on
the muniolpsl election day; namely, the
Tuesday next following the II rut Mon
day of November In each odd-numbor-ed
year, but the General Assam lily
may by law fix a different day, two
thirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto-:' Provided,'
That such elections shall be held in
an odd-numbered year: Provided fur
ther, That all judges tor the courts
ot the several Judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end in an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices until the first Monday ot
January in the next succeeding even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the Consti
tution ot Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Repieseotatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution ot the Com
monwealth ot Pennsylvania, In ac
cordance with the provisions ot the
eighteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution ot
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
ing the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used tor public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and Institu
tions of purely public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits ot the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
Buojout ot Uxaiiou may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and Institutions ot pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Bo it resolved by the Senate and
House ot Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing Is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution ot Pennsylvania, In
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Article IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore Issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide for the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
of section eight of article nine ot the
Constitution ot Pennsylvania or ot
this amendment. If the net revenue
derived from said property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same is constructed hy the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay Interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or if the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon the respec
tive properties, and Bball Impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities of counties shall issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide tor
the interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said properties
Bhall have been completed and in op
eration for a period of one year; and
Bald municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said Interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
of one year. Any of the said munici
palities or counties may incur indebt
edness in excess of seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, of
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, if said Increase of
indebtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, in such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Advertised
Article
(is one In which tha merchant
himself has Implicit faith
else he would not advertise It,
Yon are sat o In patronizing the
merchants whose ads appear
in this paper because their
goods are up-to-date and never
shopworn.
.. .
ONLY HALF DONE,
PRESIDENT SAYS
Wilson Will Now Center Energy
on Currency Gill
TARIFF LAW NOW IN EFFECT
In Presence of Distinguished Guests
President Affixes His Signature to
Democratic Low Tariff Measure.
President Wilson signed the Demo
cratic tariff bill at 9:10 o'clock last
riday night.
The bill, Hearing the signatures of
Speaker Clark and Vice President
Marshall, the first Democratic tariff
measure since 1894, reached the White
House much earlier, but the president
adhered to his plan not to sign the
measure until the hour fixed for the
gathering of administration leaders to
witness the ceremony.
The speed with which congress dis
posed of the last work on the tariff
bill and sent the measure to the White
House demonstrated the anxiety of
house and senate to get through with
the burden that had held them in con
tinuous session since April.
With the last stroke of the presi
dent's pen ending seven months of
continuous labor on the part of tho
Democratic leaders and many years
of agitation, the president arose and
facing the friends whom he had in
vited to witness the ceremony, de
livered a remarkable speech. In his
speech he served notice that the Dem
ocratic party's task was only half
completed.
Here are the president's remarks:
"1 have had the accomplishment of
something like this at heart ever
since I was a boy and I know men
standing around me who can Bay the
same thing who have been waiting
to see the things done which it was
necessary to do in order that there
might be Justice in the United States.
"We have set the business of this
country free from those conditions
which have made monopoly not only
possible hut In a sense easy and
natural. But there is no use taking
away the conditions of monopoly if we
do not take away also the power to
create monopoly; and that is
financial rather than a merely circum
stantial and economic power.
"We are now about to take the sec
ond step, which will be the final step
In setting the business of this coun
try free. That is what we shall do In
the currency bill, whicli the house hns
passed and which I have the utmost
confidence the senate will pass much
sooner than some pessimistic indi
viduals believe.
"So I feel like a man who Is lodging
happily in the inn which lies half way
along the Journey and that in the
morning with a fresh Impulse we shall
go the rest of the Journey and sleep
at the Journey's end like men with a
quiet conscience, knowing that we
have served our fellow men and have
thereby tried to serve God."
The signing of the new tariff law
took place In the president's office. At
9 o'clock those whom the president
had Invited passed through the door
of the olfloe. The president wearing
a black dinner coat shook hands heart
ily with each person as he entered.
Those present Included Majority
Leader Underwood, who had super
vised the drafting of the bill and man
aged the fight to put it through the
house; Senutor Simmons of North
Carolina, who had performed the same
task in the senate; the members of
the cabinet and their assistants, tho
ways and means committee of the
house, the finance committee of the
senate, Senator Kern, the president's
brother, Joseph L. Wilson of Tennes
see, and a number of especially in
vited guests.
As the president stepped to his desk
the room became silent. He cleared
his throat, adjusted his glasses and
pulled back his desk chair as if to sit
down. Before taking his seat he said:
"I chose this hour for this ceremony
after a consultation with the attorney
general. We wanted to be certain
there would be no complications. At
this hour I believe the business activi
ties of the country have been suspend
ed, for I believe it is 6 o'clock in San
Francisco."
The president snld he would sign
with two pens, of which he would give
one to Senator Simmons and the other
to Representative Underwood. Ho
would write with his name tho time
nf sinning.
As the president sat down he looked
r.t his watch and saw it was ten min
utes after 9 o'clock. He took one pen
and in a full, heavy hand, wrote "Ap
proved 9:10 P. M., 3 October, 1913,"
and directly under this he signed
"Woodrow." Then he changed pens
and wrote "Wilson."
The pen with which he had written
Wilson was more facile than the first.
The last name was written more heavl
. The second pen he handed to Mr.
Underwood with a bow.
All the rates In the new bill went
Into effect at midnight except those
relating to raw wool and manufactures
and supar. Free wool will he ef
fective Jan. 1. Reduced duties on su
gar will not take effect until March
1 next and will continue until May,
1916, when sugar will go on the free
list. The abolition of the Dutch
stundard color te'jt goes Into force at
once.
The income tax provision of the new
lav also became effective at midnight
on Friday.
CLAIMS HE HAS
SLAIN F0URTEEN
Spencer, Former Convict, Tells
Amazing Story
CONFESSES TO CHICAGO POLICE
Arrested as Murderer of Dancing
Teacher He Not Only Admits Crime
Cut Telle of Long Career of Blood
The Chicago police, while In doubt
as to the full truth of Henry Spencer'i
story that he murdered fourteen per
sons, are confident that they hav
found a wholesale murderer and that
he will be proved to have kilh-d al
least severai of those whose deaths lit
described In a long confession.
Spencer's confession was so start
ling that It probably would have re
ceived no credence had not a bloody
suitcase and a revolver confirmed
at least part of his statement.
Spencer claims that he killed Mil
dred Allison Hexroat, tiie dancing
teacher who was shot to death al
Wheaton, 111., a week ago. He was
positively Identified as the mysterious
Mr. Spencer with whom Mrs. Hexroat
left Chicago the night she was killed
Mrs. Uexroat's blood-stained rattan
suitcase was found in Spencer's room
as was the revolver with which he
said he had killed her.
All of his murders except two, he
declared, had been for the purposes
of robbery. The two Policemen Pen
nell and Devlne, shot to death twelve
years ago, 'ie said he killed to escape
being arrested.
"I intended to kill Mrs. A. J. Sco
field, tho proprietor of the roc in i up
house where I have been living," he
said. "If I hadn't been arrested at
just this time I would have killed her."
Spencer admitted that robbery was
ills only purpose in killing Mrs. Rex
roat.
He told the police that he had killed
ten persons since his last release from
the Illinois state penitentiary in Sep
temher, 1912, and four, a man and a
woman and Policemen Pennell and De
vine before that. Except iu the slay
ing of the policemen the killings were
all for purposes of robbery. Following
is the list of killings Spencer related
to Chief of Detectives llalpln:
One man and woman, about fourteen
years ago.
Policemen Pennell and Devine,
twelve years ago.
Two girls at I'aw Paw Lake, Mich.,
last August.
Girl at Lake Delavan, Wis., last sum
mer. Woman at Belle Island, Mich., last
summer.
Man shot in Chicago tills fall.
Old man shot in a Southside park
two months ago.
Woman shot and burned on the
northwest side of Chicago late last
summer.
Woman killed near the Cook county
hospital a few days ago.
The police cannot account for all ot
the victims Spencer claims to have
slain. The only victim Spencer was
able to naim was Fannie C. Thompson,
who probably Is the woman he said he
killed before he started on his alleged
career of murder.
Spencer told his gruesome story
calmly to Captain Halpin and a room
full of detectives and newspaper men.
He said he never drank or smoked,
but that ho chewed tobacco and
smoked opium. Ho had not, however,
the appearance of a drug victim, he
having a healthy complexion and clear
eyes.
"I've been a thief all my life," he de
clared. "1 killed all these women to
get their money. I found it was the
easiest way to live. It cost me $400
or JtiOO a week to enjoy myself tho
way I wanted to in these cabarets and
dives and the easiest and unlikest
way to get the money was to get some
girl off by herself and kill her.
"Mrs. Itexroat was easy. She thought
Bhe was working tun the same way
she worked the farmer. She thought
1 was a farmer like her husband and
could work me the same way. I let
her think so. At first I was going
to take her to Michigan and kill her
there, but finally I decided it would
be less trouble to take her a littlo
way out on the car linn anil get it
over in a businesslike way."
CROW FOR LEADER
Uniontown Man Chairman of Republi
can State Committee.
Senator William IS. Crow, Payette,
was elected chairman of the Uepubll
can state committee at the first meet
ing to be held by t lie committee under
the direct election act and assumed
charge of the party's affairs in a
speech In which he counselled work
to unite Republicans and prepare for
next year's battles.
Crow received ,V9 votes against 7 for
Representative W. finest of Lan
caster.
Insurance Commissioner Charles
Johnson of Montgomery for treasurer
and W. Harry Uaker of llarnslnirg
for secretary were chosen without op
position. N'lnety slx of the 113 com
mitteemen wire either present iu per
son or by proxy.
Aged Seventy five, Hikes Nine Miles.
Although aged seventy five, William
Redmond of Nesliiiiinoi k Kails, near
New Wilmington. Pa., tramps nine
niiles every Sunday ami does jiinilor
work at a country church In Coallown.
He says he enjoys the hike.
WHO IS TO PAY
FOR TOOADS?
What Will the Cost Be to
the Farmer?
FARMER PAYS FORBAD ROADS
No State Tax Is Levied on Pennsylva
nia Real Estate, Special Licenses
and Direct Taxes on Corpora
tlons Provide the Funds.
Whoever may pay for building good
roads, the Farmer pays for the bad
roads and pays dearly. He pays in
the sweat of his brow; in the wear
and tear on horse flesh; in the dam
age to vehicles and other equipment.
He pays In the coin of the realm for
the unnecessary time consumed by
employes and he pays In the starva
tion of his finer social and religious
sentiments resulting from the Isola
tion which bad roads enforce at cer
tain seasons. Yes, the farmer pays
an excessive price for the bad roads.
There are states In the Union where
one-half, or one-third or one-fourth,
or one-eighth, or some other frac
tion of the cost of highway improve
ment is taxed against the abutting
property. This method is a relic of
ancient times when travel was large
ly local. Under modern conditions,
where traffic is general, its injustice
is apparent.
Those should pay for Improving the
roads who der've the benefit from
them. Modern travel has so revolu
tionized the use of the roads, that
the main roads, particularly, become
a matter of state concern. It is true
that every mile of a state road serves
a purpose in the accommodation of
local travel; but its use as a main
road makes necessary a more expen
sive type of improvement than the
local travel would require; and its
Importance as a through thoroughfare
becomes paramount.
There are very few states in the
Union where no state tax is levied on
real estate. Pennsylvania is one ot
them. By reason of its large cities
and great industrial interests other
sources of revenue make the levy of
such a tax unnecessary. Consequent
ly the Pennsylvania land owner, who
pays not a dollar toward the support
of the State and its institutions, is
much more fortunately situated than
are the citizens of other states where
practically the entire cost of state
administration nnd state institutions
falls on the owners of tho land.
The farmers are the persons most
directly benefited by the improvement
of the highways. Their hind is ma
terially increased in value when these
roads are built. They will save the
money, some twenty million dollars
a year in Pennsylvania, which unim
proved roads cause to be wasted.
They, In fact, are tho most immedlato
beneficiaries of a broad scheme of
road improvement which gives them
a state-wide system of good roads for
which they do not pay a dollar.
The revenues of Pennsylvania are
nindo up of from eighty to one hun
dred items, of which fifteen are spe
cific taxes, about twenty represent
various licenses; there are a variety
ot flues and penalties, and some fees
and other incidentals, but by far the
great bulk of the money comes from,
the various taxes on corporations;
on capital stock; on corporate gross
receipts; on corporate loans; on for
eign insurance companies, etc. Prob
ably the heaviest tax payer of all ia
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which, since Its very inception, has
been an advocate of highway im
provement, and is now strongly In
favor of the Constitutional Amend
ment which will permit the issue of
bonds for the construction of roads.
In the first report of the Treasurer
of the Railroad Company In 1864,
stress was laid on the advantages
gained by the company from the
building of wagon roads to the cost
of which tho railroad had contributed.
It Is from these revenues that the
cost of carrying the fifty million dol
lar loan will bo taken. The reason
why tho corporations do not object
to the loan, In the fear that It will
add to their taxation, is that the In
crease in business, in commerce. In
production and in transportation
brought about by the construction of
Improved highways will be so great
that any posslblo addition to their
taxes would bo but a trifle in compar
ison. The tax on gross receipts whore
tho increase would mainly be, Is a
tax which any corporation is willing
to see Increase, as it means a cor
responding Increaso in business and
greater profits.
Automobile registration fees have
been increasing In leaps and bounds.
They wero six hundred thousand dol
lars last year and will be eight hun
dred thousand dollars this year with
every Indication that they will reach
one million, two hundred thousand
dollars next year. With the building
of good roads more people will use
automobiles for every trade and pro
fession. Already the motor truck
are dominating the heavy hauling
business In the larger cities. It is
not at all improbable, taking all the
factors Into consideration, that In
three years more these registration
fees will again double, and long be
fore tho bonds for tho last of the
fifty million dollar loan are Issued,
the automobile registration and other
fees will pay the entire amount of its
carrying charges, interest and sinking
fund.