Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-22
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.

The question of county roads is of i'm
portant concern to every citizen in the county,
and if the legislature will not take it under con-
sideration, why, let the commissioners court
take it in hand. The demand is better roads
and fewer in number. Over the roads of
county is carried the yearly products: and be-
sides, good county roads are indexes OF a coun-
try's prosperity. LForney Tribune.
Good country roads are as necessary
for the welfare of the farmer as railroads for
carrying on the traffic of the nation. Good
roads not only free the farmer, upon whom
civilization depends for sustenance, from
isolation enabling him to enjoy the congenial
society of his fellow men, but is essential to the
prosperity and advancement of any community.
Good roads also enhance the value of farm and
town property, for town can thrive and do
good business unless it has good roads leading
to 1t. No farmer can succeed unless he has good
roads over which he can take the products of
his farm to market What Texas needs to-day is
better system or country roads. They are the
golden links that join humanity together: that
promote education, advance civilization and lift
the farmers from the obscure depths Of poverty.
The people should elect good, honest men to the
legislature-men who can understand the wants
of the people. Men who will make some enact
ment whereby the people of the state can have
good travable public thoroughfares. Il Western
Argus.
Here is valuable pointer from the
MIXING of piece of a road in Ohio increased the
value of adjoining farms $3.50 an acre, while the
cost was less than 81 an acre. Some one ought
to go all through the country preaching the
gospel of good roads. - Jefferson Iron News.
And good roads will increase the value of farm
ing lands in Texas Just the same as it does in
Ohio. The better the road the larger the load
the farmer can bring to market, and the sooner
the trip can be made; and he makes money by
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making one trip with full load, where, with
poor roads, he would have to take half load
and make two trips. The time saved can be
used in the better cultivation of his crops and
improvements on the farm, which otherwise he
could not make. Wise county needs better
roads, and we hope our farmer friends will take
hold of this road matter and help agitate it,
until the general cry from one corner of the
county to the other will be- Give us better
this purpose, that the burden may be equalized,
and let the roads in the county be Strengthened
and scientifically worked. -[Decatur News.
The question of good roads, which is
now generally talked through the newspapers,
should carry with it more than simple mention
of that fact or argument in favor of it. The
manner in which the object should be attained
should be set forth. The hows, not simply the
why's and wherefores, should be discussed
through the papers. AS to the Gazette. it gave,
in a former editorial, its plan for building the
roads, which is simply that on which other
public enterprises are conducted-by taxation
and contract. This everlasting squirming around
to throw the work off poor white men and
negroes, to save the taxation of capital, will
continue to be failure. If we ever have good
roads we must pay for them, and the sooner our
representative men realize that fact and obtain
the necessary legislation to put that plan into
proper operation, the sooner the road question
will be settled on the only just and successful
basis.-[McKinney Gazette. We agree with
the Mckinney Gazette, that the hows
to getting better roads should be dis
cussed by the papers. Every one almost is
familiar with the why's we should have them.
Taxation, as the Gazette suggests, is seemingly
the only proper course to pursue in this very
important matter. Tenants are not disposed to
give their time to the working of roads, as the
law requires, and if they should do so, they
will do it reluctantly; and negroes-well, it is
useless to talk of their performing their duty in
this matter.-l Plano Inquirer.