Show improvement OF OUR PUBLIC thoroughfares the average and lofty minded american is proud to point to his hie count rya rapid advancement and congratulate himself upon the fact that the world itself has bas progressed to a surprising degree since the discovery of the new continent every department of science has baa received a wonderful impetus every invention for mans banle and advancement has been fostered and galileo and copernicus would not be ostracised ostracized for heresy liberty learning and progress h have ave gone go t 0 hand band in hand and we believe that the world will presently make an upward movement in religion and morality we shall then be surprised to discover that even the atheism add an d infidelity i f our time were preferable to the fanatic servility and gras gr ss ignorance of the middle ages insomuch inasmuch as an they gave mope cope i and impetus to independent thought upon those lines canceled superstition and opened free chan channel to high thought and broad leaon ji 11 we boast of our ad advancement va mild aud in many ways we have reason ta to do r rho rhe middle agda have but little te attract us up though the leaven that h worked the bread of the was wag forbie 9 mutated and began to ferment in that period but let cis as step behind cenes in the vista of time the ow old f roman has a sturdiness th a t do our admiration in spite of his faulta A little farther back we could almo envy the ancient greek barthe still the old egyptian where we find bud a grander hero bero than rame j or a people who spoke emoke so clearly ana 4 strongly to coming generations W ciul 31 tongues of stone as those ol 01 k industrious hard working art arti livine livin s egyptians our beau ifal residences Z nay we fear even the crown stone fronts front of our and altoft are mere imitation labe work when we vm compare them with the architect architectural und monuments of these dead generations genera tiona we know not how the pyramids we were built or how bow the obelisks were rat raised we ponder and are lost as we thin I 1 I 1 ak upon the temples of karaam and nd arid and well yes we almost sigh for that bt dutiful auti ful lost civilization then we think of those and splendid roads which were made and enjoyed by the ancient people edyn mans romans greeks and ana arabi alike and again we almost envy them s the goths goehs and vandals while yea yel barbarian nomads may have traveled lu in their warlike war like expedition expeditions expedit ione over suda roads as ours but the civilized bo mans greeks and eghi giants fians nevell neveil even the descendants of the goth J 10 th fad vandal valid 1 I 1 were not slow in detec tHa and correcting that source of discore diB cook furt fort bad roads but the Ameri american caw politician shall we say that he is wo too busy with politics and the seeking aw securing of his bis office to thild much nt public improvements 7 ariit that aft never travels except in a P Pull 1104 oMha palace and is in not therefore aware of the terrors of travel loft off railroad linea we wish that he might have to take a tri trip over the wagon roads me southern atah utah he would berha 1 think it privation to live without A railroad but to behold the gainal labor of draught animals as they am their heavy burdens of freight over rough uneven cutup cut up rocky roads beneath the cruel lash laeh of the imn weary driver would alone awake a de sire for a better condition W W will not mention women a and children who must endure agonies H traveling or else remain at howa home but what is in the use of calling attention to the suffer sufferings liDge of animals or Q of human beings the inconvenience of T dragging to church school lecture or theatre such the theartres theatres atres as we can havo bay in a country where troops will never venture across the roads through win and dust over rocks and holes what wha is the use of saying that our Is retarded our fluer feelings de degraded gradell us awe we gohd our teams our vehicle ioles prematurely worn out and broke down the price of our goods increased lur cur necessities for luxuries can scarcely be transported transport pd with safety he burdens of our whole lives ln in V creased by the condition of the roada over which we are obliged to travel to walk every day only one voice wl will be heard beard in our day the cry of the nl then lot let oven even his game cause be for the goods gooda he sells bells often to be dragged over rod road by the animals for whom but little anxiety and those come to costlo much that they easily be disposed oi gi our road and hamper business is ia today the goal of ameri sue our country as extensive and k wald would doubtless require much labor and means to make our roads requal ual to those of europe but they can S toast be lin improved proved and that greatly without a great deal of expense to the lve the improved facilities for traffic C and general convenience would soon te be rotund to repay the expense aside from other and more important con durations de rations the railroad was a godsend animals the present condition Ud to draught raught of wagon roads we earnestly reiterate Is a cruelty to those poor creatures rea tures who serve us so faithfully and d well and whom we use so BO hard hardly y not that our team 1 in return store are necessarily unkind but conditions compel them to unkindness kindness mi here alone alone its is good around and alde sc pe for the efforts or of the e society for prevention of cruelty to animals and we earnestly invite its attention to t this bis subject it is doubtless a fact that in proportion as people are made generally comfortable and happy and relieved fam the corr corrosion of care they have efte for the study and contemplation bf f higher blither things and are thereby 0 enabled tabled to cultivate their higher faculties hoult Um this to Is not so well accod bed by personal effort which to la haely 13 r to absorption of pur after superfluities and c nse quent nt aride aa 28 in the general advancement bf social conditions while energy economy and industry promote the vigor and develop the I 1 us that these theme qualities we 0 cannot deny may y run to an extreme and culminate toe ednd and bitter rivalry the benefits W temporal tempo ral improvement we are thus too viven aften counteracted by mental def deforti defor ormi ml ty but in the advancement of a na an wj we think this to Is different make a PC neota or a community wealthy and q r and its individual mem III find improved opportunities development of their bent of benios the benefits of some system funi ted effort and would be incalculable the high development wherein each member W cm community beight ight pursue a congenial calling is to AW A xay W inconceivable we believe that our aion will advance toward thib point hy Y eradat gradations one and that in time the lit web ideal of united effort and united rest will be realized with le leae in the a struggle for life there will be less jew strife and a kinder brotherhood shall we not all raise a united voice for public improvement A worthy object for consideration a nd d proper representation at the cornin atta groper exposition would be the present conation on and the future improvement of 09 our roads southern utah has a crying need of them our natural facilities cannot be developed in toe the present t situation we are fifty or seventy five years behind the times our children have not the advantages of modern culture iture the struggle for Kis Mis tonce 4 and our oar more inore fortunate brethren and aad eiten sisters would look upon us u ne as deprived of the decencies of life andee and we do sa abot heiti heal tate late to may aay that the roads over which we must communicate with the outside world are largely to blame BUBY RuRY LAMONT LAMORT circleville CIR CLEVILLE E pluto county utah august Augu Bt 1899 |