The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-05-06
GEN. MILES PLAN.
Ee Says Good Roads Should be Made
With Public Money as
WATERWAYS HAVE BEEN MADE.
Bryan Receives an Ovation and :
Tells Why the Farmer is
Entitled to Good Public
Highways.
The international Good Roads

The international Good Roads
Convention met in St. Louis on Mon
day of last week. Senator Latimer of
this State addressed the convention
on the first day. The next day Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, who is president Of
National Highway commission, made
an address on Military Roads and
National Aid" He said, in part:
"Ou ur government has expended $780,
900 for the improvement Of harborS
and waterways and now the attention
of the public is being called to our
postal roads and avenues Of communi-
cation that are most useful and i'm
portant to all our people.
IF such expenditures Of the ma
tional treasure have been made in the
past for the development Of railroads
and waterways, is it not now a most
appropriate time that the improve
ment Of our roads should receive na.
tional attention and governmental
aid?"
Ex-Governor Hogg Of Texas pointed
out the necessity for good roads, :
which, he believed could be secured
only through the aid of the national
government. He spoke Of the insular
policy Of the government and said If
some of the money that is being squan- Z
dered in the Philippines could be used
here in the improvement Of highways, :
our roads would be in far better con-
dition.
BRYAN RECEIVES AN OVATION.
VIM. J. Bryan spoke at the after
noon session, receiving an ovation.
He said, in part: Tine expenditure
of money for the permanent improve
ment Of the common roads can be de-
Tended, first as a matter Of justice to
the people VINO live in the country;
second, as a matter Of advantage to
the people who do not live in the :
country, and third, on the ground q
that the welfare Of the nation de-
mands that the comforts of country
life shall, as far as possible, keep
pace with the comforts Of city life.
'.It is well known fact, or a fact
easily ascertaired. that the people in G
the country while paying their full
share of county, State and federal
taxes, receive asa rule only the gen.
eral benefits Of government, while the
people of the cities have in addition to 4
the protection afforded by the govern.
ment, the advantage arising from the:
expenditure of public moneys in their
midst.
''The improvement Of the country
roads can be justified also on the {
ground that the farmer, the nrst and
most important Of the producers OF
wealth, ought to be in a position to
hold his crop and market it at the
most favorable opportunity, whereas
at present he is virtually under COM
pulSion to sell it as soon as 1T Is ma
tured because the roads may become
impossible any time during the fall,
winter or spring. Instead Of being
his own warehouseman, the farmer is
compelled to employ middlemen and
share with them the profit upon MS
labor. The farmer has a right to IN
sist upon roads that will enable him
to go to town. to church, to the school
house and to the homes of bis neigh
bors, as occasion may require, and
with the extension of rural delivery
he has an additional need for good
roads in order that he may be kept IN
communication with the outside
wor ID"