The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-07-22
County Organization at Pay
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GREAT UNREST M LEWISTON.
Kittenbach Says He Dida't Do IT,
Young Bank PresideNt---Death
at Nampa.

Last Friday and Saturday repre-
sentatives Of the National Good
Roads Association held meetings
in Payetre and New Plymouth for
the purpose Of awakening interest
in the good roads movement and to
organize the county. People from
all parts of the county attended
the meeting and considerable int er-
est was shown. A county or
ganization was effected and the
work of agitation will be continued.
A question frequently asked is,
Why should men who live in Flori-
da and Alabama come way up here
to agitate the Improvement of roads?
We think that was abundantly ex-
planned by the Payette meeting
Friday night. The spirit of pro-
gress has invaded the South. The
people down there have found out
that their country cannot move as
they want it to until the facilities
for communication and transporta-
ton are improved. They have
railroads but no adequet means Of
reaching them. In many localities
the unreachable interior is only two
miles from a main line of railway.
This interior consists of immense
tracts of fertile land, adapted to the
production of fruit, Vegetables, rice
and cotton. The South will grow
rapidly and immensely rich when
means are provided for transport
ing those products to the railways.
Railroads cannot be built on par
a1lel lines few miles apart. For
some distance products of gar
den and orchard, field and planta-
tion must always be moved in
wagons drawn by,animals. Senator
Mann of Alabama did not put it
just as we do, but he came so near
it that the inference is clear. He
said that the Democrats of the
South had changed their minds on
the question of internal improve
ment." They now believe that it is
not only right but the duty Of the fed
eral government to build roads. So
thoroughly convinced are they on
this point that they are out seeking
the cooperation of the Northern
people in bringing upon Congress
the amount of pressure necessary
to produce national appropriations.
There is the whole secret. The
Southern people want good roads
and must have them in order to get
their products to market. They
want national help in building the
roads, and possibly they think that
by uniting the West and the
South sufficient influence can be
exe1ted on Congress to fetch the
appropriations. There is nothing
wrong in all this. We present il
merely to explain the why. But il
seems to US that the men who are
conducting this great campaign for
Congressional appropriations put a
good deal more Bible and piety into
the work than the nature of it alb
solutely demands. The agitation
will be productive of much good
1t will set people to thinking more
about roads and the inestimable
advantage of good roads. Of al
the millions and millions of dollar.
paid by the public into the public
treasures, not one cent is expended
for the direct financial benefit of tn,
public except that which is appliec
10 the improvement of public high
ways. Of course many indirec
benefits are received, but the dolla
that makes good Immediately il
the dollar speut on roads. I
helps everybody in a tangibl,