The Green Forest tribune., 1904-03-12
QUESTION OF GOOD ROADS.
Dne of the Most Important Mat & ters Now Before the People.

W IHo 4uoSIloll oL Sooo foduS lo one of the greatest possible mo- rnent to the people of this county. The expense incurred to our peo- ple on account of damage to prop erty and delays in transportation on account of rough and impass- able roads is the greatest obstacle against the growth and prosperity of the country extant.
 # THE TRIBUNE invites the closest Attention of it's readers to the fol- Rowing earnest and timely address from President J. s. Hawkins and Secretary George R. Brown of sthe Arkansas Good Roads As- 2 sociation:
 M To the Friends of Good Roads The question of good roads has been so agitated in every leading Newspaper of the country that no citizen, however far from the
 I'm arts of trade, has not received Something of the inspiration. State conventions have been held z and associations formed in such rapid succession as to surprise the most hopeful friends of the $ great movement.
 KS Indeed no greater economic d question is now before the Amer. jean people. The isthamian can- al will indeed connect the two great oceans and divide the two Americas and boom every finan- cial interest and enterprise of the south especially. But by far the most important highway to every man is that which leads from his door to the railroad station or Steamboat landing. Within the last half century, by steamship 8lines and great railway systems, every small community of the civilized world has been tiel to- gether into one great internation- al communion, exchanging the products of land and sea, trl pioal fruits and artic furs, along with the products of mine, shop and field. We no longer think of our Missionaries as martyrs. simply because they are so fortunate as to be sent a journey half around the earth.
 M During the next half century we shall create more convenient ces for the individual. First of all, in every county let US send put from the principal shipping point a perfect system of turn bikes, all leading to the county Beat or chief shipping point. & Thus the home and interests of every individual will be touched in very important measure. The Greeks and Romans built their ever enduring highways for the purpose of easily moving their great implements of war. Let us build ours, not simply to the na- tion's capital, as an index to war ssanI prowess, but let us, in this sproud land where every citizen is a sovereign, build to the honor of the prince of peace rather than the god of war, connecting every home with every other home, till every man can market the pro- ducts of toll without feeling the nation has helped the rich but Neglected him.
 Ss National aid, plus state aid, plus fund from the county, will give us roads at the smallest pos sible cost to the land owner. $ While good roads will help every man, no one can be so blind as not to see the farmer is helped most of all.
 sls From the day the first mule is driven and fed till the road is cpmplete and the farmer is carry ing into market five bales of cot t:5n insteai of two, and returning nome the same day instead of 5having to camp in the "wagon yard, the farmer will reapa a har- vest from the expense of con- eHuction, and ever aftward get more of the benefits.
 |. Let us now organize by c0lnties.
 2. Let us see that every legis- lator elected to the state legisla- tacn or to cOnNraSa has clear cnnA