Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
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1--WE want to have a public demon
strution this winter, continued Mr.
ssTloyce, with Lord IIalsburv in the
sSchair, and supported by the Highways
/ Protection league and the Road Union,
which are IN cordial cooperation with
Sgone another. DIR. Shadwell has written
Ito me that the two societies will sfurth-t
Ger cooperate to support my venture,
1.-THE Road Union, you know, this year
88Iromoted n memorial to the prime min-
4 lister, which was signed by more than.
s$219 district councils in England, calling
4&attention to the intolerablc state Of
things produced by the increasing num-1
II her, size, weight and speed OF motor
vehicles. Why. according to Lord Mon
}Atague Of Beaulieu, there are 10000 au-
B tomobiles on the road IN this country
X a the present rate Of increase we shall
n soon have 100000: and what shall we
e soc then? Already so per cent of the
X sup-keep of the road goes to repairing
1.-THE damage done by motor cars es-.
by those chains which they
y8have round their wheels!
1.-THE abuse in England Is worse than
3 in other lands, owing to the small size
3#of the country. The county Of Kent Is
already ruined by the cars, and when
K you have the 100000 it will be the same
all over. / am speaking ofswhat know
\ by personal experience. for / have tl1iN-
8Selcd for five years UP and down Eng
ssland taking ministerial duties here and
8{thcre.
FRANKLY HOSTILE.
s Perhaps the name Non Motorist'
! may not strike you us being so ;lppro-,
pirate as Anti-Niotorist, for instance.
}gI3ilt we make our appeal to#everyone-
tsjllo does not own or ride a motor car
ssStill, we arc frankly hostile to the au-
4, tS- ltfA
s$InotOr- car is the attacking power. We.
ssordinary people are living in a perpet-t
ssllal conditiot.f fear and danger, as
+ great, il not greater. than an actual
estate OF war. The motorists theme
selves invite the use of the word war.
& DO they not employ scouts to meet
1.-THE legal checks on excessive speed
q and for what are scouts used except as
precautions against an enemy? The
EHmotorist is a foe, deliberately setting at
Il defiance the laws of this country-alls
4 outlaw Therefore the war against.
him must be unrelenting. We must
carry 1t on without quarter and exter-a
inmate the car, whose existence
& threatens our lives, health and prop
crty"
CALLS IT A COMMON ENEMY.
Mr.. Royce waxed warmer, and he
moved restlessly about his small study
In the Hoxton vicarage speaking rap
idly and inclsively. why, the mo-
florists must be dreaming IL they think
they can monopoize the roads. bring
Ing death to. men, women and children
especially children-and spelling the
whole countryside. The automobile Is
the greatest outrage upon civilization
within the memory OF man. Letters
have appeared in the press from all
classes of people, presenting the OUT
rage in all it's phases. 1t is simply
amazing after reading those letters, to
s think thst we have put up 50 long
with the common enemy of man and
]. beast Gas the car has SO well been
called), which disiigures the town, de-
faces the country, nenaces all other
modes Of oninlperilss life and limp.
and is everywhere and under all con-
dltions a dread and danger to society
And have you never ridden In an
a,,inmobiIe or a notor-omnibus your
self Mr.. Royce ~
SEEKS 10 CALL a HALT.
III never ride in a car now. will
ndmit that I have been in them oc-
casionaliy in the past. It's necessa-
ny experience am not quite decided
{. Vet as 10 the attitude which one ought
II IL, adopt toward Tflotor-oiniiibtises-
I have been studying them in this neigh
borfood and see, here II have two tick
ais of journeys not completed owing
10 break-downs which caused me to
ret out and walk. But whatever the
position of the motor omnibus there
4 can be no doubt that the private car
causes what Lord Halsbury calls an
actual reign of terror and 1t is the