Show GOOD WAGON SPEECH OF WILLIAM SULZER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF June Sulzer One of the greatest and most important conventions ever held in this country will be the Third National Good Roads which has been called by the National Good Roads association to meet at Niagara N. July The appointment of dele- eates is invited by the officials of every and city of the United and by every good and woman's organization in such number as each may For Mr I have been an earnest advocate of postal and good road They are sure to and I shall briefly discuss some of their Advantages of Good Good roads progress and a benefit to the people who live in the an advantage to the people who bye in the and it will help every section of our vast Good like good streets make habitation along them most enhance the value they of farm facilitate and add untold wealth to and consumers of the producers are the milestones they the marking fa advance of civilization they economize give labor a and make millions in they save wear and tear and worry aim they beautify the country bring it in touch with the they aid the social and the religious and the educational and the industrial progress of the they make better homes and happier they are the avenues of the high ways of the mail routes of and the agencies of speedy communication they mean the economical transportation of marketable products the at the minimum they are the ligaments that hind the country together in thrift and industry and intelligence and patriotism they promote social prevent intellectual and increase the happiness and the prosperity of our producing they contribute to the glory of the give employment to our idle distribute the necessaries of life the products of the fields and the forests and the factories encourage energy and inculcate love for om scenic and make mankind better and broader and greater and The Truth of The plain people of the land are familiar with the truths of They know the They realize that often the difference between good roads and bad roads is the difference between profit and roads have a money value far beyond our ordinary Bad roads have a money value far beyond our ordinary Bad roads constitute our greatest drawback to internal development and material Good roads mean prosperous bad roads mean abandoned sparsely settled country and congested populated where the poor destined to become Good roads mean cultivated farms and cheaper food products for the toilers in the bad roads mean poor lack of high prices for the necessaries of the loss of untold millions of and idle workmen seeking Good roads will help those who cultivate the soil and feed the and whatever aids the producers and the farmers of our country will increase our wealth and our greatness ana benefit all the We can not destroy our farms without final They are today the heart of our national life and the chief source of our material Tear down every edifice in our cities and labor will rebuild but abandon the farms and our cities will disappear One of the crying needs in this especially in the south and is good The establishment of good roads would in a great measure solve the question of the high price of food and the increasing cost of living By reducing the cost of transportation it would enable the farmer to market his produce at a lower price and at a larger profit at the same It would bring communities closer together and in touch with the centers of thereby facilitating the commerce of ideas as well as of material When the agricultural production alone of the United States for the past eleven years totals a sum to stagger the and it cost more to take this product from the farm to the railway station than from such station to the American and European and when the saving in cost of moving this product of agriculture over good highways instead of bad would have built a million miles of good the incalculable waste of bad roads in this country is shown to be of such enormous proportions as to demand immediate reformation and the wisest and best but great as is the loss to and farming incomparably greater is the material loss to the women and children and the social a matter-as important as civilization The truth of the declaration of Charles Summer fifty years that two greatest forces for the advancement of civilization are the schoolmaster and good is emphasized by the experience of the intervening years and points to the wisdom a union of the and industrial interests of our country in aggressive action for nent good sf |