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Why Not Udmpete In Honesty
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f ge Obvious as Well as Best Future
V-Olicy For All Railroads, Ship
pers, Manufacturers and
Traders.
" (From the New York Journal of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin.)
Much of the iniquity perpetrated
In the name of business, such as dis
crimination in transporation rates,
the adulteration of' foods and various
tricks of deception by which one tries
to get the better of another in the
: strife for profit, is attributed to the
exigencies of competition. One un
scrupulous concern seeks an unlaw
ful advantage in some "deal" with a
railroad, and others feel bound to do
the same in order to escape being
distanced in competition. When -ne
railroad under this kind of solicita
tion, grants special rates, pays re
bates or otherwise favors a large
shipper, rival lines feel impelled to
make similar concessions in order to
secure tneir share of the traffic. The
result is a competition in dishonesty
... or lawlessness: on the part of both
' shippers; and common carriers. De
fects of the law were no excuse for
such disregard of justice and honor
able conduct. But now the law has
been made explicit, so far as inter
state commerce is concerned, and
practices for which stress of compe-
tition hr been pleaded as an excuse
cr extenuation are made criminal for
all concerned in them.
The obvious policy for railroads
and for shippers who desire to be
fair and decent now is to abandon all
' devices of evasion and enter into a
competition for the observance of
the law an!d of the principles of com-
' inon honesty in their dealings. If
managers of one railroad line have
evidence that another is granting
illegal concessions or favors, it is
their duty to disclose the evidence,
to expose the wrong-doing and aid
tb authoritic- to put a stop to it,
instead of trying to get even, or more
. than even, by committing the same
offences. If one shipper finds that
another is getting any advantage
over him in charges for transporta
tion, instead of seeking to meet this
by obtaining a like advantage, he
should make complaint of the viola
tion and help to compel the observ
ance of the law. Let 'there be com
petition in doing justice and in fair
dealing, and these evils which have
caused so much agitation and occa
sioned so muc'a "hostile legislation,"
- hostile only to those who persist in
wrongdoing will come to an end,
.and it will be far better for all con
cerned. In the matter of providing the
supplies of food, drink and medicine
for the people, there is still a freer
field for competition in individual
bom j , and it is one in which hon
esty will prove to be the best policy
from a business point of view. Let
a meat-packing house be made a
model of cleanliness and sound sani
tary condition; let it take pains to
use only unquestionably wholesome
materials and methods; let it make
no concealment and avoid no pub
licity so far as knowledge of the
character and quality of its products
is. concerned; let its labels and repre
sentations of what it puts upon the
market bear the closest scrutiny, and
it may acquire a reputation that will
be worth more than all the tricks and
devices which have been resorted to
in the past, and the detection ..and ex
posure of which is liable at any time
to sweep away the illegitimate gains
cf deception and fraud. Even.if less
wealth should bo accumulated, it
vrould be 'without the taint of igno
miny and public contempt, and some
reward should be found in an hon
; orable business reputation and pub
lic respect. This applies equally to
the manufacturers of the various
kinds of prepared and preserved
foods, the production of which has
grown so enormously in recent years.
That the bulk -of these are whole
some may be admitted, but in that
case there is no legitimate reason
for secrecy about the ingredients that
enter into them or the methods of
their preparation, any more than
about raising corn or making cloth.
Secrecy and enigmatical names are a
cover for adulteration, the use of in
ferior or injurious material, or some
device involving deception or fraud
. by which illegitimate profit is sought.
Honest purveyors of food and the
various accompaniments of food
have been wont to complain that a
few unscrupulous r-ersons may cheap
en, adulterate and variously sophisti
cate and misrepresent their products
so that it becomes impossible to com
pete with them without in some
measure yielding to their methods.
Many who would prefer to deal, in an
honest and above-board fashion feel
compelled to vitiate their products,
and traders feei compelled to sell
articles which they know are not
what they pretend to be, in order to
keep up their trade and make a fair
profit in competition with unscrupu
lous rivals. So is business made dis
honest and disreputable by a rivalry
' that demoralizes competition, making
it a competition in dishonesty. Let
holiest manufacturers and dealers
make common cause with consumers
for effective laws and efficient ad
ministration against the secrecy and
deception nnd all the devices of fraud
inthis business, and they may put jn
end to its offences and the .disrepute
into which it has fallen.
Let the manufacturer take the con
sumer into his confidence bv letting
jbim know truly what he is buying i
and by giving evidence of the char
acter and quality of his goods, and
he will gain the confidence of the
consumer. There is no; class that it
more behoves to contend against the
adulteraflon of food, drink and medi
cines, and against fraudulent repre
sentations about them, and to expose
the tricks and devices by which the
public is cheated and injured, wheth
er in health or in substance, than
honorable men engaged in the busi
ness of providing these supplies for
the community. What all should
strive to promote is a competition in
honest and legitimate methods of
business,, which shall command con
fidence, give a value to truthful
labels and genuine trade-marks, and
make the names of manufacturing
and trading concerns honorable and
respected. We have had too much
rivalry; in deception and fraud, and it
is becoming unprofitable as .well as
disreputable.
KHYBER PAoG THE KEY.
This National Doorway Through Him
alayas Was Used by Alexander.
The j Khyber Pass ic strategically
one of 'the most important points in
all Asia, and round it has raged many
a great battle, for with it under con
trol an army has at its feet the great
and fertile plains -vhich have made
the Pearl of the East, the peninsula
of India, famous in song and story.
The ipass itself begins ten miles
west of Peshawur, one of the most
important of the British military sta
tions in India, and it extends thirty
three miles northwest to the plain of
Jelalabad. It is the only route be
tween the Punjab and Afghanistan
available for a large army with heavy
guns, though there are other passes
which miiat be forced by an enter
prising; enemy traveling in light or
der. It is, toward the Khyber that the
eyes of those Russian officers who so
much envy the British the possession
of India are always turned, and by it
all the great invasions of India since
the time of Alexander the Great have
taken place. Alexander's Macedonian
army marched between its cliffs,
which tower above the pass to a
height of 3000 feet.
Coming to more recent times, the
pass was the scene, of the appalling
disaster of 1842, when the Afghans
almost i annihilated a British army
endeavoring to retreat f rom' Kabul to
India. In the late seventies our long
negotiations with the Amir of Af
ghanistan largely centred around the
control of the pass, which ultimately
was ceded to Great Britain.
The Khyber agam became a place
of tragic importance in the period
that followed the disaster to General
Burrpws at Maiwand, when half the
British force fell, and the garrison at
Kandahar was invested. With insuf
ficient troops the Khyber had to be
held,; Kabul kept- in occupation and
Kandjahar relieved.
Roberts was the man to do it.
Handing over Kabul to stout old Sir
Donald Stewart, Roberts formed his
flying column. Cutting himself off
from his base, he vanished from the
ken of the civilized world. He and
his devoted men had a trying ordeal
among the mountains an ordeal few
armies would have borne, until,, ap
pearing suddenly at .Kandahar three
week$ later, they relieved the town.
Meanwhile TCabuL and the Khyber
were held, and the situation was
saved. .
Shack Immune in San Francisco.
One of the remarkable incidents
of the great fire of San Francisco
was the immunity from damage of
an old wooden shack owned by a
paint company at the corner of Main
and Harrison streets. The ram-'
shackle,, half-century-old building
stands unharmed, a little island in a
sea of desolation. It reeks with oil
and is filled with highly inflammable
materials. Near to it a great pile of
coal caught fire and burned for near
ly a week. The officials of the com
pany felt so certain that the place
had fallen a victim to the devolving
flames that they did not even at
tempt to visit it until two weeks o
so after the conflagration and then
it was mere curiosity to sea what the
ruins : looked like that led them there.
Jumbo, Weight 3500 Pounds.
Jumbo, owned by Andrew G. Wes
sel, of Brookville, Ind., which is said
to be the largest steer in the world,
weighs 3500 pounds, stands 18
hands high,, measures eleven feet
around the girth and seventeen feet
two inches from the tip of the nose
tothe tip of the tail. He is a full
blooded Shorthorn, is just past the
four-year-old mark, and is still grow
ing taller and gaining in weight.
The steer is so gentle that it is often
ridden by Mr. Wessel's little son.
During the last twe years Jumbo
has been taken to a few fairs in
Ohio and Indiana, and has attracted
the attention of many people. He
was raised by P. Ewell, of Franklir
County, Springfield Township.
A Thing of Beauty is a Drain!
At a dinner of the Sanitary Inspec
tors' association at Holborn restau
rant, Sir Wyke Bayliss confessed that
art and sanitation seemed far apart.
"Would ypu compare art," some
would say; "with a drain running
down a street?" "Yet one of the
loveliest things in the world was a
drain! (laughter) when it was con
secrated by art in the form of a gar
goyle on the roof of a cathedral. The
two were hot so far apart. Art was
the science cf beauty; sanitation was
tho science: of health; and what were
beauty and health if they were not
the same thing?" London Telegraph-
BADGER'S FEAT.
In the days when the Omahas
uled all eastern Nebraska, and
fought the Sioux twelve months in
the year, the great chief, Big Elk,
lay in his lodge on the .banks of the
Missouri, sick unto death.
For many "suns" has the great
man been troubled with a sickness
which the Indians were not able to
overcome. The medicine-men of the
tribe had used all their efforts; had
worked , all their charms; had called
on "Pe-a-zhe Wakan," the Bad Spirit,
and upon "Wakan," the Great Mys
tery. The chief " did not improve.
Even the chief's own private "medi
cine," or charm, was unavailing, and
he grew worse. The entire tribe was
in ipjoom.
Inen one day. from the south, a
trapper came in his boat, and stopped
to exchange bright-colored calicoes,
mirrors, guns and beads with the Om
ahas for their skins of the otter, the
beaver and -the buffalo.
The Indians refused to trade.
Their chief was dying was on the
very verge of the "Shadow Land"
and they could not trade.
The white man asked to see Big
Elk, and he saw that the great red
man was indeed dying. Nothing
could now be done for him.
"But,"- said the white trapper,
'"there is a white man down the Big
River, three sleeps distant; he has a
white powder which would have
cured Big Elk. But it is too late
now. No horse could get back quick
enough. Big 31k. must die."
Badger, a young Indian, who was
standing near when the trapper told
of the white powder which would
have saved Big Enk, beckoned the
trapper to come outside the lodge,
and asked him for the white man's
"sign" for the white powder.
The trapper wrote the single word
"Quinin" on a paper, and handed it
to the young red man.
Five minutes afterward Badger,
armed with his precious piece, of
paper, four pairs of moccasins, a
small quantity of dried buffalo meat,
and five bright silver dollars all
the cash the tribe possessed shot
out from the south end of the In
dian village, and headed toward the
white settlement, one hundred miles
away, at Bellevue, Nebraska, several
ruiles below where Omaha now
The sun was just setting in a red
blaze ::i the Western prairie when
Badger started on the run which
made his name more famous in his
tribe than that of any warrior of his
time.
Some time during the middle of the
next forenoon, probably fifteen hours
after Badger left Big Elk's lodge, old
Peter Sarpy was standing in his log
trading-post at Bellevue when a
young Indian ran into the room,
handed him a paper on which "Qui
nin" was scrawled, laid five silver
dollars down, and in the Indian lan
guage asked him to "hurry."
The medicine was quickly wrapped
up, and the Indian, in his own
tongue, which Sarpy knew well,
asked how it was to be taken, and
was told to place it in water and
make the sick man drink it.
Badger, for it was the Omaha In
dian who had made the one-hundred
mile trip on foot in fifteen hours,
then sat down, ate a little jerked
buffalo meat, threw away his old
moccasins, which were entirely worn
out, put on a new pair, rested for a
single hour, and started on the re
turn to the Omahas' village, carry
ing with him the white powder which
,was to save the life of Big Elk.
- It was nearly noon when Badger
left Bellevue. He was stiff and tired
from his long run of the night be
fore. He wanted to stop and rest,
but did not dare do so, for fear of
going to' sleep. The sun was hot and
there was no path across the prairie.
Last night he had traveled by the
stars; to-day he was guided by the
sun. There were rivers to swim and
quicksands to be avoided.
Just after the sun rose next morn
ing Badger staggered up to Big Elk's
lodge on the Missouri. He had made
the return trip in about eighteen
hours, and had traveled the entire
two hundred miles in thirty-four
hours, including tne time spent at
bellevue.
But Big Elk had died an hour be
fore Badger brought the "white med
icine." .
That was more than fifty years
ago, and to-dry, when the remnants
of the Omaha tribe are gathered
round a dance "lodge," and Indians
tell of the great deeds of Big Elk,
the greatest warrior the tribe ever
knew, almost in the same breath an
other Indian wiil ise and tell the
story of Badger and the fast run he
made in his effort to save the life of
his' chief. T.i p.. Porter, in the
Youth's Companion.
HIDING FROM THE JNDIANS.
In dealing with the Indians dis
cretion is usually the better part of
valor, even if the encounter end as
the incident' described long ago by
Mrs. Bates in her book of Western
travel. Not many are living nowa
days who have felt the uread of the
red man, and the casual reader can
afford to smile, at the experience of
Mrs. Brown in the mountains of Cal-
ifornia. The woman's husband kept
a boarding-house for about thirty
miners.
Some of the men had had trouble
with a tribe of Indians living not far
distant. It was believed that the sav-
ages - meditated an attack, and for
some time the whites in the vicinity
had been on their guard. As nothing
happened, they relaxed their watch
fulness. 1
One day, when everybody was at
work at the mine except Mrs. Brown,
who was in the house alone, a deaf
ening war-whoop sounded. T-ie
woman ran to the door, to: see about
two hundred Indians approaching in
full war-paint, and armed with bows,
arrows and tomahawks.
Mrs. Brown, trembling with fright,
rushed from the house to where the
men were at work and screamed out
her tidings. The men naturallysup
posed the .Indians were coming to ex
terminate them, and they caught up
their shovels and picks and stood
ready to fightj Their fire arms were
all at theAouse, and flight was out
of the question.
They directed Mrs. Brown to flee
across the river and secrete herself
as quickly as possible. The stream
was wide and deep, and spanned by
a very narrow timber, but she rushed
over it headlong. A large excavation
caught her eye, and she jumped inte
it. In telling of the adventure after
ward, she said:
"It would be impossible to describe
my feelings. I expected every mo
ment to see the dark and bloodthirsty
faces of the savages. I could endure
it no longer. I crawled out and
rushed on, making all haste for the
woods.
"When I got there I was no better
off. I woul Lhide for a few moments,
then think, 'They will surely find me
here. I must find a better place. I
had done this a dozen times, when I
finally climbed a big tree and re
mained, how long I cannot tell; the
time seemed interminable.
"Then I heard shouting. I was so
terrified J could scarcely retain my
seat. At last I recognized my own
name called by my husband's voice.
He was alive, then, and the others
murdered! Presently he appeared,
laughing. I thought him insane.
" 'Come down, it's all right! t
thought I should never find you. I've
been hunting for two hours,' he said.
"It turned out that the Indians
were on their way to visit a neigh
boring tribe in honor of some great
occasion. They were painted and armed
as they always were when celebrat
ing. The war-whoop was given,
doubtless, in sport, for when the band
passed the waiting miners, each dark
face was on the broad grin."
COURAGE IN MAN AND WOMAN.
Women display courage in their own
incomparable fashion. Typical of wom
an's method of encountering danger is
the story Of the woman who observed
as she was concluding her toilet for
the night the preseiu-e of a burglar
under her bed. Without lotting the
man know that she had perceived him,
this woman quietly put on her dressing
gown and knelt down' at the bedside to
say her prayers. She prayed aloud.
She made her own personal interces
sions to heaven and then prayed for
all poor sinners living in the darkness
of estrangement from God, "particular
ly this. unhappy man lying under my
bed, meditating the wickedness of steal
ing and perhaps murder." This wom
an saved the situation.
I cannot imagine a worse situation
than that of a certain steeplejack who
found himself one day at the top of
a church steeple with a madman grin
ning into his eyes. The madman was
his mate. Both men had been at work
on this steeple for many days and had
talked together while they hung in the
saddles with the utmost accord, but
on this particular day one of the men
looked up to see madness in the eyes
of his companion. In that moment he
was alone with danger. No shout
could avail. From the street below
he looked like a spider snoozing in its
web. The roofs and chimneys of the
hous.es seemed to be level with the.
ground. High up in the loneliness of
the empty air he was alone with a
madman.
The man kept his wits "about him,
and addressed some eheerful remark to
his mate. The madman only grinned.
The man bade him look alive, that they
might the sooner get below and enjoy
themselves. The madman chuckled,
and announced that they would get
below in double quick time, for that
he was going to jump from the, steeple
with his friend in his arms.
The other laughed as if at a good
jest, and turned to his work. Then he
began pushing forth his feet against
the steeple to set a swing into his
saddle; he meant to grab the madman
and hold him till help came. But the
madman was also swinging his saddle,
and before the sane man realized his
danger the madman's fingers were
closing round his throat.
There they swung in the dizzy air.
high over ' the unconscious city. By
something of a miracle the man found
his hands .clutching at his tool box
as he swung back. His hands closed
on a wrench. He grabbed it, made an
upward thrust with his strangled
body, and caught the madman a jang
ling blow across the side of his head.
Then he clutched the fellow's body to
save it from falling, and, after a mo
ment's breathing, quietly lowered him
self and his unconscious mate to the
ground below. Strand Magazine.
Praise For American Women.
In the opinion of the editor of the
Mirror, a paper printed in English
in British India. "American woman
hood is admittedly the finest, the
very best, physically and intellectual
ly, of all the womanhood of the
world."
The Reason.
"I will not marry you," said Belle
To broken-hearted Pete;
"The reason I will frankly tell
Your income's incom-plete!" '
The Jilted, in Town . Topics.
And Needs a Comb;
Hicks "Wonder why a negro al
ways calls his sweetheart 'honey'?"
Wicks "Because she's his bee
loved, I suppose."
Heavy Enough.
Smith "There's goes Jenks, one
f the main pillars of our church."
Joker-t"He looks more like the
foundation ?to me."
Grive Him the Hook.
"But, my dear, Mr. Millyuns is
too old for you."
"No, mamma, the only trouble is
he isn't old enough."
Grafting to the Pull-Pit.
Scott "Talking about church-going,
the wicked should go to the sin
nergogue." Mott "Not the Chicago packer
he should go to the meat-tin house."
Safeguarding His Life.
Bacon- "You say your wife does
all her own cooking?,"
Egbert "Yes! "she does her own.
I take my meals, at the club." Yon
kers Statesman." .'
Sizzling Retort.
"What is your idea of the future
life?" asked the youtjh.
"It is either a "thing of bliss, or a
thing of blister," answered the home
grown philosopher. Chicago News.
Proof of It.
Mrs. Spender (out shopping)
"Now I just know there's something
we've forgotten t6 buy."
Mr. Spender "There's certainly, is,
my dear. I've got almost a dollar
left yet."
Matter of Expense
"Algy, don't y6u find married life
more expensive than bachelorhood?"
"Well, it may, be more expensive
than a rigidly singl.3 life, but it's
cheaper than courtship." Chicago
Tribune.
Knew. Slang.
Teacher "Now, Johnny, what was
the cause of the American Revolu
tion ?'
Johnny "We had the spirit of '76,
and the British had the spirit of
23." New York Times.
A Killing Remark.
Green "You mentioned the other
day that a friend of yours had tried
Dr. Bolus. How did he like the doc
tor's treatment?"
Grey "I don t know. He's pre
served a dead silence on the sub
ject." Endless.
Tommy (aged four) "Say, mam
ma, can God make anything He wants
to?"
Mamma "Certainly, dear."
Tommy "Well, I wish He'd make
me a stick of candy with only one
end to it." Chicago News.
She Knew What She Wanted.
"I should advise jou by all ineans
to have a pergola," said the archi
tect. "It'd be nice to have one," replied
Mrs. Jossgotti, "but I don't see what
we could do with one as long as there
ain't any cs-:ls around the place."
Chicago Record-Herald.
No Pleasure in It.
Mrs. Chase "Oh! I don't like to
go to that store. It's so unsatisfac
tory to do our shopping there."
Mrs. Shoppen "Why, they hava
everything there."
Mrs. Chase "That's 'just it. No
matter what you ask for, they can
suit you right off." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Grammar Made Spectacular.
The teacher took a plum from her
desk and bit into it.
"Now, children," she said, "I am
eating a plum that's the present
tense." She took two more bites.
"Now it's gone. I have eaten the
plum what tense is that?"
"I know, . teacher," said Willie.
"Well, Willie?"
' "That's contents."
, Wise Deduction.
Soakley "It's all rot about late
hours and booze hurting a man."
Bilkins. "How do you make that
out?"
Soakley "Easy! It's this sleep
ing that kills a man off. No matter
how late I'm up with the boys I feel
fine when I turn in, but when I wak$
up in the morning is the time I feel
bad." American Spectator.
Premature.
The street car passenger handed
back the nickel that had been given
in change.;
"What's' the matter with it?"
asked the conductor.' ' '
"It's plugged," answered the pas
senger. "You should have waited
till you got a little further into the
tunnel before trying to pass it."
Chicago Tribune.
I (fj n n r 1
GOOD
ROAD S.
Senator Latimer on Road Questions
Senator Latimer, of South Caro
lina, has come to the front as one of
the leading champions of road im
provement. In fact, he was elected
to the Senate mainly on that issue.
He introduced into the Senate a bill
for national aid similar tp that which
Congresman Brownlow introduced
Into the HOusa. and hft has rlpfpnflor!
j it ably and eloquently. In an address
delivered at the Beacon Society din
ner in Boston he said:
The improvement of the common
roads of the country engaged the at
tention of our ablest statesmen from
1802 to 1832, and during that period
about $14,000,000 was appropriated
by Congress for road purposes. All
the great minds of that period were
one in conceding this question to be
of the highest importance in deter
mining the happiness and proseprity
of the American people. It is to-dayr
as it -was thin, a question .which de
mands the earnest consideration of
every American citizen. The mud
tax, levied on our people by the mis
erable condition of the common
roads, is the most onerous that we
have to pay. It will astonish you to
know that it costs tire people of the
United States every year more to
transport the surplus products of the
farm and forest to -the shipping point
than the total cost of transporting
all the freight, passengers, mail and
express, over all the railroads of the
United States. In 189 6 the railroads
received from all sources a little over
$700,000,000. Every dollar of this
was returned to the people in the em
ployment, of labor, payment for ma
terial, in taxes to the States, and in
interest on invested capital. The one
billion dollars or more spent in cost
of transportation over the dirt roads
was a total loss, notone cent being
returned to the people in taxes or as
interest on invested capital. And yet
this is only a portion of the loss.
In this enlightened age no one
questions the stupendous advantages
which would follow a complete sj7s
tem of improved roads. The cost
of the work would be paid by the sav
ings of or-v year. On the improved
roads of Europe the cost of trans
porting a ton a mile is from "eight to
twelve cents, while in the United
States the cost averages twenty-five,
cents. A reduction of this cost by
one-half would save to the American
people $500,000,000 per annum.
The practical question which con
fronts us to-day is how is this con
dition to be met and overcome?
Upon whom must the burden of this
great undertaking fall? We have
tried the present ystem, which was
inherited from England, which haf
not resulted in much, improvement in
the last one hundred years, and, in
my judgment, will never prove a suc
cess. ,
It is evident that some change in
our method of road improvement
must be adopted. The local com
munity is not able to construct roads''
unaided. Many of the States are not
able to do so, and even if they were,
there is a feeling which, in my opin
ion; is justly founded, that it would
bo unjust to require them to bear the
whole b.urden. The consumers of
raw material and food products
throughout the United States are
equally interested with the producer
in lowering the cost of transporta
tion, as they, in the end, have to pay
this heavy tax. As this burden can
not be equally distributed, except by
placing it On 'all the people, and as
the most remunerative powers of
raising revenue, originally held by
the States, are now Li the Federal
Government, it is only by an appro
priation out of the Federal Treasury
that the improvement of our roads
can be accomplished with justice to
all the people. .
The next question which presents
Itself is as to the power of CoDgress
to make such an appropriation. I
think that the power exists by ex
press grant in the Constitution. Bas
ing my opinion on the views of such
eminent men as Madison, Monroe,
Gallatin, Webster, Calhoun, Clay and
Adams, and taking into consideration
the legislative history of the coun
try, Lhold that the power is clearly
established. The power has been ex
ercised whenever Congress thought it
wise to do so, and the only question
which is really important is whether
or not this is a proper subject for
Federal aid. All' that is asked by the
bill introduced by me -is the appro-
priation of a, fund for road purposes.
The States are. to furnish the right
of way, maintain the roads afer they;
are built, and pay one-half the cost.
Congress is not asked to invade the
States, but simply to appropriate
money as an aid to an object for the
general welfare and happiness of all
the ..people. There could be no bet
ter investment of the public-funds
than in road improvement. It would
enhance the value of farm lands from
ten to fifty per cent. An increase in.
value of $5 an acre would add $3,
000,000,000 to the wealth, of the
vnn Tit TV in this ifpm n!rnf TVi o r-nn
gestion of business during the winterl
-a
months would disappear, and our
people could, go to the markets at al
times. In fact, the material advan
tages which would follow are toe
numerous to mention and too creat
to estimate. - . j
What will we do with the nrono-
Kitinn? Will wp ?T nn frir fh toW
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one hundred years as we have durinf J
the last, or will we arouse, ourselves!
and make this question a burnint
issue before the people until the re
suit is accomplished?
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