The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1909-03-05
try. They Mean Progress
and Prosperity.

oaA0 ACSP~AANy
The following presentation of the
/ significance of good roads to the
country is an extract from a speech
of Hon. VIM. Sulzer Of New York.
We could not add one item Of bene-
fit that accrues to the population of
a country traversed by good
thoroughfares that Mr.. Sulzer has
not mentioned. No level-headed
citizen, be he rich or poor, can read
the extract without being convinc-
ed that the surest way to social, in
tellectual and business blessings is
along the route Of good roads. At
this time, what Mr.. Sulzer has to
say is apropos, because it furnishes
our people with the cream Of obser-
vation and thought on a question
that Is interesting countries every
where The Weekly produces it
for the benefit of the people of this
county, that they may learn more
Of what good roads would mean to
them. and to determine at what
cost their interest would suggest
they should 60 to build them. The
question of providing to build per
manent roads is already being con
sidercd by the authorities and many
people Of the county. Every one
should learn the full value of them
at this time:
The plain people of the land
realize that often the difference be-
tween good roads and bad roads is
the difference between profit and
loss. Good roads have money
value far beyond our ordinary CON
ception. Bad roads constitute our
greatest draw back to internal de
velopment and material progress.
Good roads mean prosperous farm
ers: bad roads mean abandoned
farms, sparsely settled country dis
/ tricts, and congested populated
cities, where the poor are destined
To become poorer, Good roads mean
more cultivated farms and cheaper
food products for the toilers i'm the
towns; bad roads mean poor trans
portation, lack of communication
high prices for the neccessaries of
life, the loss of untold millions of
wealth. and idle workmen seeking
employment. Good roads will help
those who cultivate the soil and
feed the multitude, and whatever
aids the producers of our country
will increase our wealth and our
T greatness and benefit all the peo-
/ pie. We cannot destroy our farms
without final decay. They are the
heart of our national life aud the
chief source of our material great
ness. Tear down every edifice i'm
our cities and labor will rebuild
them, but abandon the farms and
cities will disappear forever.
Good roads mean progress and
prosperity, benefit TO the people
who live in the cities, an advantage
to the country, and it viii help every
section of our vast domain. Good
roads like good streets, make habi-
tations along them most desirable;
they enhance the value of farm
lands, facilitate transportation, and
add untold wealth to the producers
and consumers Of the country; they
are the milestones marking the adj
vance Of civilization; they econo-
mize time, give labor a lift, and
make millions IN money; they save
wear and tear and worry and waste;
j they beautify the country, bring it
in touch with the city; they aid the
social and the religious and the ed
ucational and the industrial pro-
gress of the people; they make bet
ter homes and happier hearthsides;
they are the avenues of trade, the
highways of commerce, the mail
routes of information, and the agen-
/ cies of speedy communication; they
mean the economical transpOrta-
ton of marketable products-the
HldAittld dIAt bituEt ut lItt utiiitili biiI
cost; they are the Iigaments that
bind the country together in thrift
and industry and intelligence and
patriotism; they promote the social
intercourse, prevent intellectual
stagnation, and increase the happi-
ness and the prosperity of our pro-
i duciEg masses; they contribute to
the glory Of the country, give EN-
ployment to our idle workmen, dis
tribute the necessaIies Of life-the
products OF the fields and the forests
and the factories-encourage energy
and husbandry, inculcate love fol
/ our scenic wonders, and make man
kind better and greater and grand
er and broader.