The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-02-24

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Q. Do improved roads increase the
value of farm lands?
A. Yes: in the States of Massachu-
sets, New Jersey, Connecticut and
New York, and wherever roads have
been built by State aid, values of farm
lands have increased.
Q. Why is this SO?
A. A good road enables the farmer
to haul his produce to market the year
round, and to haul when it is wet and
he can't pillow. He thus can get a bet
ter price-he can haul twice the usual
load in less time. 1t saves wear and
tear OF wagons, team and temper. The
children can always 60 to school. A
man buying a farm will pay ore for
it on a good road than on a poor one.
Q. How many miles will $l.25 haul
a ton on a road, a trolley road, on a
railway and on water?
A.. $l.25 will haul a ton.
smiles on a common road.
12}tO Is miles on q common welll-made
stone road.
% miles on a trolley road.
25O miles on a steam railway.
LOCO miles on a steamship.
Q. What have trolley roads done
for cities?
A. They have given them rapid
transit and increased the value of real
estate in cities and in their immediate
neighbOrhOOd.
Q. What will good roads do for the
farmer?
A. They will give him rapid transit
for his produce, and improve the value
of his lands, Just as the trolley roads
have done for cities.
Q. What has the Federal Govern
ment done for commerce and the cities?
A. 1t has appropriated 49,, $40, 1919
in 1903 for improving rivers and har-
bOrs, and in the last ten years
SIG, 226, 934 for this purpose.
Q. Does this expenditure benefit the
farmer.
A. Yes, a little, by giving him a
better freight rate; but most of the saw
ing goes to the freight carrier, i. e.,
the railways and steamships.
Q. Is the appropriation under the
Rivers and HarbOrs Bill evenly dis
tributed among the States?
A. No; it is mostly spent in the
Seaboard and Lake States, and in the
Mississippi Delta. Very little is spent
in the inland States.
Q. How is the appropriation under
the BrownlOw bill to be made?
A. It is to be distributed according
to the population to each State, and
each State Or county must add q like
amount to the sum received from the
Government.
Q. Is any locality compelled to have
its roads rebuilt by the Brownlow bill?
A. No, each locality decides for it.
self whether or not It will take the
money offered by the Federal Govern
ment, If it does take it, it must add a
like amount.
Q. What else has the Federal Gov
eminent done for cities?
A. It has built great public build
ings, post Offices, court houses and fire.
quent1y custom houses in nearly ev-
cry city of importance.
Q. What else does the Federal Gov
eminent propose doing for commerce?
A. It intends to build q canal
across the Isthmus of Panama which
it is estimated will cost about $500, OOO,-
900.
Q. What has the Federal Govern
ment done for railways?
A. It has given them immense land
grants of public lands, which they
have sold for many millions of dol
lars, and it has loaned its credit by
issuing bonds to help build them.
Q. What has the Federal Govern
ment done for its soldiers who fought
in its wars?
A. It pays them and their families
914O, O0O, 600 q year in pensions.
@. What has it done for Porto
Rico, Cuba and the Philippines?
A. II has built many miles of road,
established schools, done away with
yellow fever in Cuba IN keeps an army
In the Philippines Of about q, 500
men.
Q. What has It done for manufac-
tories in the cities?
A. It has protected them by levying
. high tariff until we lead the world in
many lines of manufacture.
@. What has the Government done
for the farmers?
A. Il has established agricultural
colleges, experiment stations, made
the head Of the Bureau of Agriculture
. cabinet officer, created free rural
mail delivery in certain sections, but
after showing . man how to double
the product Of his farm it has left him
unable to market the produce he has
created because Of the bad condition
Of the wagon roads.
q Has It done o. much for the
farmer - for other classes Of citizens?
A. No, not nearly % much.
q. Why il thisY
A. Because farmers have not made
their demands known to members of