The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04
GOOD ROADS.

The following address on the
subject of GOOD Roads" was de-
livered by Jerome II. Hudson of
WHY before the farmers institute
here last week:
Mr.. chairman and fellow citizens-Our
necessities are the mother of inventions
and forces us to action. If did not have
the welfare of the people at heart of my
adopted State | would not appear before
you today as an advocate OF greater I'M
proyements OF our public institutions,
which is essential to the prosperity OF the
country.
1t may seem strange to you that in my
advanced years ! should have any timid-
ity in appearing before you, but such is
the case. My facilities for al education
were very limited, therefore have re-
Trained from taking an active part in pub
lie discussions in the drama of life. |
can see now the importance of educating
the children of the present and future
generations that they may perform the
duties of this life in their home and to
their country and lend helping hand to
the less fortunate,
Lives of great men all remind US, lives
that make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind them
Footprints on the sands Of time.
Footprints that perhaps another
Sailing DER lfes solemn main
A forlOIn and shipwrecked brother
Seeing may take heart again.
The Anglo-Saxon, the descendants of
Adam and Eve, created in God'sO inn
age, who We're commanded to multiply
and people the earth, by their disobedl-
enGe in the Garden of Eden to His will
were commanded to earn their bread by
the sweat of their brow, and who by their
evolutions have come down through the
ages, settled and coonized nearly every
land on the face of tue globe, are of an
enterprising, commercial and exploring
spirit, which will never be appeased till
they have rested their air ships on the
poles of the earth, explored the ETHEREAL
space in the heavens among the planets,
or been wrecked in the milkmaid's path.
| Inl775-6 the Anglo SaXons at midnight
in their guarded tents were dreaming of
| the hour when nations with their knees
in suppliance bent should tremble at
theirpower. That hour has arrived. We
have come up from our infancy from the
first settling of the country. The forest
and the red man have disappeared from
our trailand our land is teeming with all
the industrial pursuits that 60 to make a
contented and happy civilized life.
i Tennessee took an integral part in the
/ formation of our government, and reCeiv-
ed the encomiums of a grateful public.
It's little humiliating to have anybody
think that we are in anyWise deficient in
the improvements that 60 to make a
higher civilization when compared with
lother States of the Union about US.
The we'll beaten trails and paths of the
wild beasts and red man who inhabited
this land, in the advance of the Anglo
Saxon, have weIl-nlgh faded and disap-
peared from the West He no longer
roams over his once "happy hunting.
ground" to gather his subsistence; the
Manhaska, or white man, has suppressed.
ed him with all the conComitant arts OIL
civilization.
We are an agricultural, manufacturing
inventive, commercial, enterprising peo
pie, and it is necessary that we have
roads and avenues to communicate with
each other Tennessee is situated be-
tween 50 and 81 degrees of north latitude
and is subject to the cold, frozen, snowy
weather that sweeps down from the Nortl
until itmeets and mingles with the balmy
breezes of the Gulf of Mexico,
In the northern portion Of the United
States the roads are protected by snow
and ice some four or five months in the
year to somewhere near the 40 degrees O.
north latitude, while we here in Tennes
see are subject to all the changes and sci
dom have any protracted cold weather
consequently the roads get in a bad con
dition for about four months in a year
from December 10 April-it being the
rainy season. The balance of the tim,
the roads have dried out and become
passeble. So we are like the man was
about covering his house. When itrain