The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-18
Demand Good Roads Throughout the
Country.

What is regarded as the most am
bilious proposition ever advanced in
the direction of good roads throughout
the country Is that urged by the Car
riaGe Builders National Association,
| which held its annual convention re-
Gently in Cincinnati. In the associa-
tons good roads report was included
suggestion for the establishment by
Congress OF special bureau, with the
object of bisecting the various States
with 1.-The best roads that man can
make" In part, the report follows !:
1T should be possible for a man to
leave his home anywhere i'm the ma
ton and within few miles turn into
government highway, upon which he
could travel to the gold laden sands
of Alaska or the ne plus ultra limits
Of the country I'm any other major d.
rection.
Every man of whatsoever politi-
cal sentiments should be a working
advocate of at least one grand nation
al road, formed in a sort of perpdun-
culated system to reach every State.
1t is the only possible way to expend
government funds without loss fin
leaks and the drains OF time. Such
AOouo WouAN DO 6OuAS Oo VI 4CNCuuC
and raceways of pleasure for the rich
| and poor at one and the same time,
and no conceivable invention of man
| could destroy or neutralize their use
fulness.
The aerial ways are free to the
owner of an aeroplane, the waters arc
free to the owner OF boat, but roads
are available and conveniently practi-
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pedestrian or Carolina cow rider to
the tourist party i'm a palatial auto
mobile.
Under such system Of roads as
the government could construct the
diffusion of emigration would become
equitable, the agricultural and miner
al interests would boom, quick accu-
mutation of vast military power would
become possible and the remnants OF
sectiOnalism would fade into a blend
of general good fellowship.
"The actual work on construction
would offer an unlimited field of en-
ployment to tide us over periods oil
dull times, and the nature of such
improvements permits them to be
doomed and pushed hardest in times
of greatest financial distress, since a
national debt contracted in the course
of road building can never be improp-
er or extravagant.
I'm conclusion I repeat that the
people of the United States in one
voice demand system of public high
ways; they want them built and con-
structed by the central government
and every foot thereof should be fed
eral territory. I recommend that the
Carriage Builders National Associ-
alton, in convention assembled, pass
and adopt the following resolution 4:
The Carriage Builders National
Association, in thirty-e1ghth annual
convention assembled,
Resolved, that it is the unani.
nous opinion of this body that the
question of constructing traversable
roads throughout the nation IL super.
Tor In every sense to every other sub.
ject of public improvement; that it is
the duty of the central government
to construct suitable roads for the use
OF the people; that further neglect Of
these improvements, so vitality impor.
tant to the nations interest, is use.
less abuse of public confidence. We
recommend the immediate establish
ment of Bureau of National Roads
at Washington, and call upon Con
gress for n initial appropriation o.
$25,O00,000; said appropriation carry
ing authority for the immediate or
ganization Of great construction
force on roads.
" Resolved, that a copy of this
resolution be presented to every 9th
er industrial body I'm these States
with an urgent plea that they join il
united action to press the matter up
on Congress with irresistible force