Show conservatism IN ROADS in most biot things wo we arc no n hind himl the ago aee in highways highway 1 man is conservative to tins this hour and in lands whose people boast great achievements ho he is baill content to use nee roads that are in ro roughness ugliness in steepness anil and wetness what they were cont centuries ago ho he seems seema to believe I 1 do not charge that he thinks that continued endurance of ills lie ho knows is easier than alio to mental exertion required for learning in what are letter better ways and for screwing in up ids courage to tho the point of adopting in those woys ways leaders of reforms are usually denounced by their own generation as extremists tre mists it i ia feces necessary nry that to movis the masses ns as far as they should go the leaders must go farther cut but can call it be shown that the most extreme of reformers has been guilty of persisting in blunders eswa as wasteful as aa costly as absurd as those to which tile tho conservative element elemer if obstinately adhere JQ ARE ABE CO COSTER TENT tins from froin good 1 I 1 have of often ton wil been i 1 of such in it a spot where an engineer canice a wagon road liala a mile or more along ono side of a high spur of mountain and farther back along the ot other her sid side e an ali easy and oven even grado grade wiss was thus sc secured cured but tile tho distance around tho the point is twice as great as that fi arora tho the place where theold alio old trail leav leaves esthe the road to go e zigzagging up over that rough ind and rocky spur and down again to tho the spot where that ti thail ail joins again tho the modern modem way sometimes an arciero arriero so far forgets to protest against this violation of the traditions of his fathers as to perri permit tit his mules to go around by the road but a caballero in the saddle beverl never not kot that anytime any time can bo be saved by clam clambering beiting up feet to scramble feet down again ono one could go around the bond in lesa im time and with less expenditure pen pend iture dituro of energy than is ia used in ia toiling over the ridge but why should one save time and the strength of his mule in that land of manana that happy future to which are rele relegated abed all duties wo we can slark shirk today ono whose brain is mc moved ived by slow blow northern blood can conceive of only one cause for so BO following a tedious difficult and costly way when in an easy and lest less expels iso one offers and that cause is ia identical al with that which leads millions of people in the united states to continue year after year generation after generation to use as roads tho the rough dusty and muddy lanes that are in place of the highways they can easily have and that cause once i m r tilt their ir chosen field tho the advance pa guards ard a 3 or warna nation ti ian wera wora busy lisy in malti ing s se ec anre et th their Z holdings tears passed before the pioneers had rauch much to haul baul to or from their homos homes therefore they nee need cars care little for roads time tima enough for making good roads when they would bo be needed they had bad got along with the roads they had or with noue none if others wanted better let others make them if their children coult could I 1 not b be a content with the ways find and means that had answered all purposes of the fathers the children would bo be able to pay for better tho the labors tile tho fathers had done would help the young generation to do that tile tho make makeshift t ways of those days became tho the habits of the alie new gener generations actions what was good enough yesterday will do well enough until tomorrow wo we lau laugh h at tho the manana of the children of tropical america and put off to our own tomorrow our own greater need ind and duty therefore there have never been beell in hi all this great land a hundred miles of roads as good its is those ancient americans built with their crude appliances D D evans |