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Show Ssf-fi Nometlitng In llihik Almm. tOM. I' there Is any one class of H f fe (""' people deserving of O I O special faor nt the hands Vt F of the Government It Is tOW the agricultural chus, or strictly speaking, the far-mer. far-mer. No class of people has oxer done so much for the United Stntes as the farming peiipb. The farmers tamed the continent from n wilderness nml iuhiIu our country the very gnrdeu of the world, annually furnishing about seventy ier cent, of our national exporls. In respect fo what they have done for the Government they need no henild; In respect to what they deserve de-serve at the hniiils of the Government every patriotic citlcen. In public ns well ns private life, should be their advocate. The farmers of the United Stntes. patient and determined, have made no deinnnds, though benrlug the heaviest huideiis of life since the lte-publlc lte-publlc was Instituted. The lime has wine when they must hno relief. Under Un-der present highway conditions most everywhere the American farmer Is practically imprUoued at home through nt least the half of each year. That half of lho year Is the time when he could lie best spared from tl.o farm, and when, with good roads, he could market bis products at a prollt for his toll. Now, however, he must leave tho. farm In summer or early fall the only time when the roads are passable to market his products, and then always al-ways nn a congested market, or take the chances of it huh-ilcop haul that kills his stock, breaks wngon nnd hnr-ness, hnr-ness, wears out the man nnd eats up the fruit of bis sweat. The good roads season for the American farmer Is the very season when his whole time nnd attention should be given to bis farm operations; It Is tho crop season whlrh waits for no man. and which, neglected, neglect-ed, charges It up tu the man behind the plow. Wo all know what that menus. With good roads the farmer could do bis town going In rain or snow, or when the ground Is too wet to plow; with bad ro.ids, ns they nre now, ns they have beep from the beginning be-ginning nnd as they will be until the Government of the I nlteil States extends ex-tends Its aid ns suggested In the Itrowulow-l.atlmer bill, he must be the grent national sufferer. It hns been calculated by the Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture thnt every time the sun sets the bad roads or the United Stntes cost the American fanners $1,000,000. These nro Government llgnres. How nny public nun can refuse to support legislation thnt will stop this dreadful drain passes the understanding of the average mind. Can die national conscience con-science and the mitlAual thought bo unmoved nt 'ace wjju such n condition? condi-tion? ' Are .he people themselves asleep to their owi material salvation? salva-tion? How long can flits sapping, sapping, sap-ping, of farm life and fnrm vitality go on before the American fnrm home Is dostroyed? And how long, pray fell, cnii the Hcpuhllc stand nfler the destruction of the American fnrm house? We hope to see the suggested good ronds legislation go through Congress the coming winter. It will, If tho lieo-pie lieo-pie get together nnd demand It. Let neighborhood and county meetings bo held everywhere nnd petitions go forward for-ward to Senators and Itepresentntlves. Wrlto to your Senator for Scnnto Document Doc-ument t!OI. Talk to your neighbor nlKittt It. Urge him to write. Let us all get busy for good roads. Uptown Weekly. r,rs niprnlUn llnadl. The town boards of Oneida County, N. Y., make the following suggestion: "Wo would not recommend that every town In this county have built within Its borders n road costing on the aver-ago aver-ago $7000 n mile, nB we believe each town should govern Itself nccordlnir to Its own local conditions, but wo bnve provided figures to show thnt no mntter whether u town has a high or a low nksessed valuation, It could, under un-der tho $."i0.000.000 bond Issue, If its own board so desired, bnve, without execisivo taxation, Just ns wide and Just as expensive roads us any other towns In any other part of tho State. If tho county nnd town can devise methods by which the ronds to be built should have nn average cost of $1000 u mile instead of $8000 n mile, the charge to the town under the bond Issue Is-sue for each mile of highway built would bo ?!10 for each uillo the first year; nnd to the county, the Increase In taxes the first year for each mile of highway would bo $70; and to the State It would lie $100. In oilier words, under the S.IO.OOO.OOO bond Issue Is-sue of tho State, county and town could obtain n road costing $1000 a mile nt an lncrcnso In their annum tax levy of $-00, which under the present system of payment would enll for tho expenditure of $1000 in cash, or under the bond Issuo they could obtain ob-tain n road costing $SX0 a mile for an Increaie in their lax levies of I(H) 111 place of raising $WMX) In cash. n pio-vhlod pio-vhlod by tho present method. "Under the bond Issue each town and county U free to select as oxpenslvo a road or ns cheap n road as the local conditions requlre."-Tribuiie Fanner. |
