Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-03-15
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For The Free Press.
Messrs. EpiroRss ] AN glad 20 see the people
OF Jefferson are becoming alive with regard 10 IN
rroving the towns and the country. Every paper
i'm ths county spreads before its readers the i'm
provements underway and contemplated, and not
unfreuuently suggest some that would be % the
general benefit God il is said, made the country
people made the towns. OF course the people
make them 90 please their tastes and their conye-
niences The country people have 10 make the
best use Of the land in their power % produce ma
terials 90 sustain the population OF the county
MIA saving that everything must come out OF
the grOBud The country people ana the toWH
people are mutually useful and necessary II the
farmer rs prosperous and can have surplus over
and above the cost of his productions, then hecan
law o,,t money for improvements and some OF the
Injuries. The merchant and the mechanic are
proited thereby. So when farmers flourish good
times prevail generally. Every road aud avenue
leading 90 and from Gown Is a beneht 90 the town
as well as the cjrcumncent country every lowe
or village isa centre ot trade and IS fed BY the
couut.y. 10 matters not how many towns there
srp. thew are SO many centres. Letthere &c roads
pointing 90 them liks the SpOkes OF the wheel 70
the hub. aud there can De no wheel without huo
and spokes We can easily see the Importance OF
roads Co the towns, and toe necessity OF goou
road Oh every neighborho0d. One road need not
be in tue way OF another and the people and the
towns might say come on with your roads. The
country people iu many places say make Us roads
and NE viii come. Therefore good people every
where needing ros,is. no longer delay-Ssk and
Won shall have, seek and you shall ind, knock and
10 shall be opened O. YOU. The l4th amendment
goes IN for equality In people; let there be some
amendments SD as 90 have roads IN every neigh
b0rh0od not for some 90 have good roads, aud
others none.
Pity us that have no public roads bat zigzag
narrow lanes. goiug around plantations and over
unit locations with an the Inconvenience attend
ing them-whers two vehicles can not pass eace
othsr-one must stop at the end until the other
clears the w3y; not only So, but horseman some
times ha, o. stop on the road side until team
passes. When these narrow lanes are covered
with snow drifts then the fences must be pulled
down and the 6elds passed over for a whilei Wacn
a wagon breaks down then trsueS trouble 90 some
body. Aside from all this, property Is IN A state
of depreciation who would buy farm, mih of
a house where there is no good road Co u We
won't 20 back Co toe time since these things have
been So We know that this is A. q. 1873, and that
tli, is an enlightened era. There may be some
who would saw why change now, we have been
using these crooked narrow WAYS 90 long, why
not continue them We would say don't hold on
20 a bad thing: iu these DAYS of Rail Roads and
Turupikes who would 20 back h the old mud
road SO o. a good broad and moderately straight
road is an improvemeutto these inferior by-roads
or no roads, why should we not have them These
are the DAYS of Improvement. the school master Is
abroad IN the land Old foggyism Il DYING out
We lament these iagarjs who are behind the times
and are forced 90 cyclaim " 20 IL We tereplns
Letus au unite In mcuding our ways there are
many old WAYS needing amendment. and many
new ones want openings Cor the good OF the puo-
hc. Good Sirs. my motto . ..--- 81,
March 18Th. 1878. "INpRON EMENTS.'