Show GOOD ROADS BETTER COUNTRY hig highway eways tell tole tato of profit or loss and nd spell poll ruin for county that neglects them the plata plain people of tho the land are familiar with the truths of history they know the past they realize that often difference between good roads and bad roads roada Is the difference between profit and loss good toads roads have a money value tar far beyond our ordinary conception bad roads constitute our greatest drawback to internal development and material progress good roads mean prosperous roua farmers bad roads mean abandoned farms sparsely settled country districts and congested populated elites cities wl where I 1 ere tho the poor aro are destined to become poorer good roads mean more cultivated farms and cheaper food products prod u acts for the boilers toilers in the lie towns bad roads mean poor transportation lack of communication high prices tor for tho the necessaries of life the loss 0 of f untold millions of wealth and idle workmen seeking employment good roads will help those who cultivate the soil and feed the multitude and whatever aids tho the producers rif of our country will increase our wealth and 0 our ir greatness and benefit all the people we cannot destroy our farms without without final decay they are today taday the heart of our national life and tho the chief colel sour source ce of our material greatness tear down every edifice in our cities and labor will rebuild them but abandon the farms and our cities will disappear forever I 1 take an abiding interest in this all absorbing question tor for better highways by some plan it can be dono done honestly economically and constitutionally tio nally I 1 am not committed to any pet scheme I 1 have no vanity in tho the matter I 1 care not who ho gets the glory so long as aa the people get the results I 1 am for the cause and in the fight to stay good roads mean progress and prosperity a benefit to the people w who ho llva live in the cities an advantage to the people who live in the country and it will help every section of 0 our vast domain good roads like good streets make habitation along them most desirable they enhance the value of farm lands facilitate transportation and add untold wealth to the producers and consumers of the country they are the milestones marking the advance of civilization they economize time give labor a lift and make millions in money they save wear and tear and worry and waste they beautify the country bring it in touch with the city they aid tho the social and the religious and the educational and tho the industrial progress of the people they mako make better homes and happier hearth sides they ar aro 0 the tha tho the highways of commerce and mall mail routes of information and tho the agencies of speedy communication they mean the economical transportation of marketable products tho the maximum burden at the tha minimum cost they are the ligaments that bind the country together in thrift and industry and intelligence and patriotism they promote social intercourse pro pre vent intellectual stagnation and in crease the happiness and tho the prospers prosper ity of our producing masses they contribute to tho glory of the country give employment to our idle workmen distribute the necessaries of life the products of tho the fields and the forests and the factories en courage energy and husbandry inculcate love tor for our scenic wonders and mako make mankind better and greater and grander and broader good roads are the arteries of indus trial life of a great and powerful pe people good roads mako make a good country in a government such as aa ours all sorts borto of men and women are more or loss less absolutely dependent upon the tha best and speediest ediest means of communication ni ul and transportation it if you say that good roads will only help the farmer I 1 deny it the farmer who produce the necessaries of life are ara less leas dependent than the millions and millions of people who live in ia our cit tea les the very lives ilves of the latter depend on the farmers tho the producers of the necessaries of ufa life the most superficial investigation of this subject will clearly prove that good roads are more important to the consumers than they are to the producers of the country th thi fathers fathera or of the republic birely alf cl recognized the Import anca ancia of t this his question washington and jefferson advocated good roads and projected the construction of a great highway train from the capital to tho the mississippi valley the farseeing fa statesmen of the early days of codr our national existence championed and passed measures to better the means of altion they knew that of all human agencies the one which has baa done most for civilization has bas been the tha building of good roads the tha of distances the tha shortening of time in tho the facility of at communication they realized the necessity of good roads how important they were to the country to its growth and its development and to mankind morally physically intellectually and industrially I 1 WILLIAM SULZER |