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Show GOOD ROADS. Lord Macaulay, in the opening page of his description of the difficulty of traveling in England in 18G5, remarks that "every improvement im-provement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially; ma-terially; and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies antipath-ies and to bind together all the branches of the great human family." Henry Clay had the same thought in mind when he urged to completion the national road over the Alleghenies. It is true that even a liberal education will not remove the provincialism of a people. Indeed, an education not unfrequently intensifies natural provincialism. The first thought is that "our part of the country is the best ever." With the finish of the schools added, the matured thought is, "What other people peo-ple are generally so well educated as ours?" The only way to overcome that is by mixing people up, and in such a way as will bring out character, and finally make clear to men that men are what their environments make them. Railroads Rail-roads do not accomplish this, at least only in a limited way, for to rush people from one end of a land to another does not mix them. The automobile road and races between New York City and Atlanta are good things. They compel people to mix. If a machine breaks down on the way and a farmer hauls the machine to a place where it can be repaired, and receives for his work double pay, he tells his people at night that "them auto people is not so bad." There should be more of those roads and races. They should travel in all directions. If they could they would be a guarantee against any civil war. Utah needs at least three thousand miles of such roads, and judging by the election in Can ada some roads should be extended there. They would not help the old people, "their minds is sot," but the rising generation would get some new ideas. We think that as many native Americans are glad of the result as are sorry; but in every northern north-ern city in the Union are a good many native Canadians, and our belief is that ever since the election day in Canada they have been congratulating congratu-lating themselves that they have grown out of the grooves in which they in their youth followed, and a feeling akin to pity for the people they grew up among is in their hearts. Not that they voted as they did, but for the reason that Impelled their votes, which was, as some of their papers have declared, antagonism to the people on this side of the line. The cannot explain why they feel that way: can give no substantial reasons for it, for it is but a narrow provincialism and no man ever could give a reason for that. Indeed, as a rule, tell a man that he has a provincial band around his good sense and he will resent it, and at the same moment will hug the prejudice to his soul closer I than ever. In little countries, the provincialism I of tho people takes in their -whole country. When I a nation is spread over a great area, then there 1 are sectional provincialisms. In our country it is I bounded by States. The finest educated man in Massachusetts, if he has always lived there, does jw, not know any geography to speak of outside of his state, while the native Virginian will tell you in all sincerity that "People live in Virginia, but outside they merely exist." Good roads are great educational Institutions. |