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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL 21 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
The club missed a meeting last week. Some 
of the members were on hand, but they were 
obliged co give way. It was the night ap¬ 
pointed for the regular road meeting for our 
district. The voters like to meet at the store 
where they can keep warm and talk as loud 
as they like. There are some 50 voters in our 
district and eight of them turned out. Three 
of these wanted to be road master, and three 
of the other five would not have declined the 
office. Others would have come but the 
roads were so bad they did not like to take a 
horse out and they could hardly walk through 
the mud. It did not occur to them that this 
was the best time in the world to come out 
and make the public take more interest in 
good roads. It was far more comfortable to 
stay at home and growl at the road master, 
whoever he might be, than to turn out and 
back him up in any improvements he might 
suggest. 
Mr. Geton found himself in a hopeless mi¬ 
nority from the start. He is one of our most 
progressive farmers. He has improved his 
farm until it is about twice as productive as 
the surrounding land. He can raise big crops 
but when it comes to getting them to market 
the bad roads spoil him. Consequently he 
takes a great interest in good roads. He gave 
us a great talk. 
“We never can be satisfied till we macadam¬ 
ize all our main roads. The town ought to buy 
a stone crusher and move it around from 
one district to another. We can use the 
stones on our farms—they need clearing up. 
I am in favor of bonding the town for 
enough money to put our main roads in good 
shape at once, and to buy the tools to keep 
them so. My idea is that we can hire a man 
to take the job of keeping all our roads in 
good repair Let him make a business 
of it and it will cost the town less than we pay 
now on the district system. If the town won’t 
do it, I’d be in favor of starting right in our 
district. Say we use half the money due us 
for general repairing and use the rest for ma¬ 
cadamizing as far as it will go. Do a good 
job and add to it from year to year. It won't 
be many years before we will have our main 
roads as good as we want them. The roads 
off the main line will have to be kept up by 
the ones that use them most. Come, let us 
make a start. 1 ’ 
Mr. Cit had been elected chairman of 
the meeting. He does business in New York 
and rents a small place out here. As 
he pays no taxes at all, he is enthusiasti¬ 
cally in favor of doubling the road-tax and 
having it all paid in cash. Never having had 
the pleasure of paying taxes, he thinks a man 
must be an old fogy for objecting to pay 
double. 
“Gentlemen, I am most heartily in favor of 
this proposition,” he said. “The time has 
come for united action. We must all put a 
shoulder to the wheel. I would even favor 
devoting all the money to macadamizing and 
depend upon a sound public spirit for keeping 
side roads in repair. I propose to ask each 
voter present to give his view on this import¬ 
ant matter, so that we may instruct our road- 
master after we elect him.” 
Farmer Jenkins was the first one called 
upon: “I ain’t in favor of givin’no instruc¬ 
tions to the road master,” he said. It appears 
that Farmer J. rather expects the office him¬ 
self some day. “It ain’t no use instructin’ no 
road master; the law covers that pint an’ says 
the road master’s boss of his work. He kin do 
what he likes after he’s elected.” 
“But,” said Mr. Cit, “of course the person 
we elect will bow to the judgment of the ma¬ 
jority, and if we decide that we want certain 
work done he will carry out our wishes.” 
“P’raps he will an’ p’raps he won’t” said far¬ 
mer J, “seein’s the the law pints out what he 
kin do, I wouldn’t pay no interest on them in¬ 
structions.” 
“Speakiu’ about public spirit,” said Mr. 
Bowser, “there’s too many folks in this dees- 
trict that ain’t gut no jrnblic spirit at all. Ef 
them roads is gonter be left to public spirit, 
there won’t be no roads at all or else two or 
three enterprisin’ folks is gonter do all the 
work. I’d say let things go on as they be now. 
They ain’t much money into road master 
now, but seein’s everybody gits a chance at it, 
I don’t see why it ain’t fair enough. When I 
was road master I done more work than any¬ 
body’s ever done since. I worked onto the 
brow of a hill an’ cut it down powerful.” 
“I won’t vote agin macadamizing provided 
one pint kin be settled,” said Mr. Clump, “I’m 
into the scheme if the work kin begin in front 
of my house an’ run along my farm first. 
Everybody knows the road in front of my 
house is the worst in the deestrict an’ I’m in 
big favor of puttin’ all the money into one 
place provided ye take the place in front 
of my house.” 
“I’m a big hand for dreens,” said farmer 
Bullard. “If I was road master I’d put a dreen 
or a culvert every 10 rod. Our roads needs 
dreens morn’n they do scrapin’ and diggin’. 
I’m a dreener, I be. Now there’s J im Doug¬ 
lass over to the corners. He’s banked up the 
road in front of his house till they ain’t no 
place fer the water to run off. They ain’t no¬ 
body likes him noway, an’ if I was road mas¬ 
ter I’d put a dreen in front of his house. An¬ 
other thing I’d do would be to build up them 
water bars on the hill. Them orter be built 
up bigger’nthey be now.” 
“I ain’t in favor of no stone crusher ner no 
road machine, I ain’t,” said Henry Landman. 
“Who’s gonter pay fer ’em, sez I? My taxes 
is more than I kin pay now. Come to double 
’em up, where’d I be? Our roads has been good 
enough fer folks long’s I kin remember. I 
ain’t gut no money ter spend fer no stone 
crusher. You fix up the roads an’ it makes it 
awful nice fer them city folks what rides out 
fer play, but farmers what pays the the taxes 
don’t git no benefit into it. If more money’s 
ter be raised I’m in favor of payin’ more fer a 
day’s work on the road. Men what pays the 
taxes orter git the money back agin. Them 
what works on the road orter git pay enough. 
If the township wants [to [raise more money, 
let ’em pay it out fer workin’ on the road, sez 
I. There ain’t no sense in lettin’ money go 
outer the deestrict to them what ain’t gut no 
interest into it.” 
“I ain’t gut nothin’ ter say,” said Job Bank¬ 
er when asked to give his opinion. “I ain’t 
talkin’, I’m a listenin’, I be. When ye all git 
done, I’ll tell ye what’s what. I ain’t sayin’ 
nothin’, I ain’t. ” 
This debate was continued"till r about 10 
o’clock, when Job Banker was.[elected[ road 
master for the coming year. Doubtless his 
work on the roads will show us what he meant 
to say. Mr. Banker will get his share of the 
road money, and next year we are expected 
to crawl through the mud again/and elect 
comebody else. A great nation, we Ameri- 
sans are. Our roads might be better if we 
had a king. small pica. 
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