The Newtown bee., 1894-05-11

town through which it passes. These roads are used by residents of outlying towns to reach th8 city markets or rail- way communications and the nature of the traffic is such that the
 EXPENSE OF KEEPING THEM IN GOOD repair is necessarily very large. How toned? Can the tax payers in the town through which it is located be justly asked to pay it all? Most certainly not. It should fall upon those who are bene- fitted by the traffic. It is a maxim in the business world that botheor all par ties in legitimate and honest transac- tion are equally benefited thereby. The city resident then who consumes the farmers produce is as truly benefit ted by these roads as the man who owns the team that travels it and so is every merchant and corporation he deals with. Directly or indirectly the railroad com panies are undoubtedly benefited most of all, but as they pay only state tax nothing can be expected from them. Taking all these things into considera- tion is it not right that such main roads should be maintained at the expense of the state?
 believe if the laws of our state relat- ing to taxation were so changed that every dollar in the state, whether invested in real estate or in bonds or stock, should be located and made to pay it's just pro- portion of the public expense, such roads as | have described could be ma cadamized and
 KEPT IN FIRST GLASS REPAIR l by the state without any additional bur- den in the way of an increased tax rate. The only objection I have ever heard offered by the states building and main- taining such improved roads is that it will 1 build up the cities at the expense of the country towns. Now 1 do not look at it in this light at all. believe they would be of mutual benefit. They would with out question greatly enhance the mar l ket value of all real estate near them throughout this entire length. They would enable the farmer to carry his | farm products to market at least en. pense, secure his supplies and thereby
 save the commission of the middlemen
 This is according to Grange doctrine and
 it is good business policy.
 European countries are practically
 unanimous in their policy of placing i'm portant roads under the direct manage
 ment of the general government and o1
 paying the expense of construction ant
 maintenance out of the general funds O tue SldLS. WIlCu IS OulJ
 four times the size of New York, pay
 annually about $20,000, ,000 from it
 national treasury for public roads.
 have always had great deal of sympath.
 with the complaint that labor unions
 have made against the practice of utiliZ ing penal labor in the manufacture o
 staple goods that are placed on the mar
 ket in competitor with paid labor. Ina
 all convicts, whether serving their sen , tence of 20 days in the county jail or
 years in the state prison, should be re
 quired to labor sufficiently to reimburs r the state for the expense of guarding them, clothing them and feeding them, i
 admitted by all. Would it not be to tn
 advantage of all concerned if a steau
 stone crushing plant should be estat } lished at the jails in the several countie and at the state prison, the state to trans
 port the broken stone and furnish it ire t to towns that will use it in the construC tion of macadam roads?
 We all know that our very lives de pend upon the free circulation of b1oo 7 through our veins and arteries. Whe { we call physician the first thing h l does is to feel our pulse and if he find r it the least irregular he at once know that there is trouble somewhere. 9Th common roads of the country are tn f veins and arteries through which flo g the agricultural productions and tt 7 commercial supplies, which are tt ? life blood of the nation."
 , PATRONS, THE CIRCULATION OF THE LIE
 BLOOD
 g of the nation is irregular, it is impede' n it Is sometimes almost stopped, but W |, are intelligent citizens and diagnose tt q case. We know that heroic treatment l. necessary. A surgical operation mu d be performed. But the knive is in ou
 hands and we know how to use it. Wi n we do it?