The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-11-14
DELEGATES PLAN
FOR BETTER LAWS
TO PROVIDE FOR IMPROVED ROADS
Spend Portion of Saturday i'm Con-
sidering Bill to be Presented to
the Next Assembly.

rooms in this city Friday morn
ing. That the full number of dele
gates was not in attendance was due
to the late arrival of some of the
trains. Many of the most prominent
men in the United States are actively
connected with this work and the
government has sent a member of the
highway commission to attend this
convention, while from all over the
state leading men have come to con-
slider this very important question.
President Samuel Hill is one of the
leaders in this movement and has been
directly Interested in the work for
many years. Those who registered Fri
day We're: Walter j. Reed, Daniel
Sinclair, d. II. Mcdonald, w. L. Lem
on, w. ]. Kline, w. J. Lince, North
Yakima; W. w. Bech, C. II. Hanford,
United States district judge, Western
District, Seattle; Leigh r. Freeman,
North Yakima; w. a. Stevens, county
commissioner, Kittitas county, Y. N.
Burch, j. c. Fond, Ellensburg; Harvey
Lindley. Seattle; T. w. Gillette, repre-
sentative elect Whatcom county, Bel
lingham; James Odgers, editor, Day.
export; A. l.. Valentine, county sur
veyor, King county, Seattle; Judge J..
II. Scott, president Oregon Good Roads
association, Salem, Oregon; Samuel C.
Lancaster, oil expert, United States
Highway Commission, Washington, ID.
c.. Henry Lands, state geologist, Sc
attic; Samuel Hill, president WASH
ington Good Roads association, Seat
tie; Elmer Lenfest, county surveyor,
Snohomish county, Snohomish; Joseph
M. Snow, state highway commissioner,
Spokane; L. C. Barnard, Washington,
d. c.. j. o. Newell, Seattle; A. NJ. Lane,
Dillingham;; Charles Cissna, Whatcom;
James Hart, Auburn; Frank Terrace,
Orillia, King county; J. C. Stevens,
Portland, Oregon; Henry Parry Rich
mond Beach; John Dudman, Ballard
l.. Frank Brunn, Seattle; ]. II. Tabor,
w. NJ. Lum. North Yakima; Walter
Oaks. Seattle; B. l.. Bull, North Yaki-
ma; L. T. Smith, Endlcott; John S.
Beall, Portland, Oregon.
President Hill followed Mayor Reed,
who welcomed the visitors heartily
and gave them assurance of his sin
cerest interest in the work they have
come here to further. His address in
full follows:
ers itself fortunate today in being the
guest of the city of North Yakima, a
city whose permanent prosperity rests
on the only sure foundation known,
the prosperity of the farmer, and we
must look to the farmer who after
having arranged his own affairs will
aid those of us who live in the cities
and towns to frame proper laws for
the government and guidance of this
commonwealth.
When l draw a line from Seattle,
Washington, to the national capital,
like to think that every time it
crosses a forty-acre tract of ground it
crosses what is now or will some day
be the home of happy and prosper
Gus citizen of the United States, a man
who is neither a lahorer nor a capital
list, the man who is both, the man who
makes his contest not with his fellow
man, but with nature and wrests from
the soil a livelihood for himself and
his family.
No great movement has ever been
effectual in the United States that was
not supported and carried on by the
farmer. and no war has ever been
fought by the United States in which
the soldiers engaged were not for the
most part taken from the field.
The Washington Good Roads asso-
citation makes it's appeal to the farm
ers of the state, and tries to show that
its work. while primarily for the farm
err, for the man who lives on the land,
is nevertheless for the benefit of every
man, woman and child within the bor-
ders of our state. New York had tried
in vain for the Improvement of its
highways. depending as it did on the
false hope that the cities Of that state
could, through their representatives,
remedy the evils then existing; but
when the organization of the farming
population of New York was effected
through the efforts of devoted and
patriotic band of men legislation was
enacted which increased the sum ex-
pended on highways from a $4,000
appropriation in 1895 to a $4,000, 900
appropriation in 1905.
II we can once convince the people
of the state of Washington that we
have their best interests at heart. that
this association has no selfish ends to
further, then our task will be done.
hope that such will not be the case.
but II the Oriental trade OF Puget
Sound should pass into foreign haids
and the traffic with Alaska should
cease to be carried on from Washing
ton ports, there Is a wealth and fer
tility In the soil of this state which II
properly developed and the state be
properly supplied with means of high
way transportation. will yet suffice
for the maintenance and support Of
millions of people.
1t Is right at this time as we stand
on the threshold of our fifth conven-
ton for us to ask ourselves certain
questions. Have the purposes and aims
OF our association been adhered to-?
Does the ideal of an association work.
ing for highway betterment independ-
emit of party politics still remain?
Both OF these questions can be ans
wered unhesitatingly in the affirma-
tive. But when In turn we ire asked
to point to the results accomplished
by this orgs alton we are oblige.- to