The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1910-02-26
TINE TO AROUSE AND ARISE

TALBOT correspondent OF the
~ Baltimore Sun says the State Is
n building a stone road from Eas-
ton, etc, which, when finished in the
near future, will give a continuous
shell and stone roal from Mcdaniel,
on the bay shore in Talbot, TO Easton,
thence to Centreville, thence to Ches-
tertown. thence to Elkton, in Cecil
county, where it will connect with the
good roads leading to Baltimore and
Philadelphia" That sounds we'll in
print, but the man OF average ntelli-
gence, or even OF an Intelligence a
few degrees below the average, it
seems in order to ask how? when?
whcre?" The present five million dol
lar State Road Loan apportions only
sos 900 to Cecil county. That sos 900
will be used up before the State road
scheme ever reaches Fair Hill. How
and when is the State road to be
brought down from Fair Hill to Elk
ton, thence to Chesapeake City, thence
to the Kent line, so as to complete the
beautiful dream OF the correspondent
quoted above. The people OF this
county may as well get awake to the
fact, at once, that there is no hope i'll
the present Road Loan or the present
Road Commission plans, for State
Highway along the main and most
largely Travelled route in the county.
runs the road which carries many times
more vehicles than any other county
route, and yet the chances OF this roads
improvement IL in the dim, distant
future, ii not in the realm OF the ideal
unattainablc." What is the control
ling motive OF the Road Commission,
no mortal man seems able to guess.
Being Cecil countianS, MessrS Gro
theirs and Tucker, it would seem.
might naturally plan FOR the countys
welfare, and not AGAINST it. But
thus lar the road building seems all to
be intended to help folks out OF Cecil
and into Pennsylvania or into Della
ware. The merchants, the banks, the
physicians, etc, are feeling the bad
effects OF this scnsclcsS method of do
ing things. but nobody seems able to
remedy the matter. Last Saturday,
some citizens OF the Second and Third
districts had conference with Cover
nor CrOtherS, looking to some prompt
action as to the acknowledgements
City road. The conference amounted
to nothing, and will amount to moth
ing UNLESS THE PEOPLE SHOW
THEIR TEETH. The thing must pass
beyond the control OF the little fellows
whose whole liic-work and experience
is in the playing oi politics. 1t must
be taken into the hands OF the people.
it is their great material welfare that
is at stake. 1t is their money which
must pay for these roads. Why, then,
should they not rise in their might
and with Just Indignation demand that
their money be spent on roads where
they are most called ior by every con-
sheraton oil common sense and
equity? This thing OF sticking a little
piece OF road here, and another there,
at $4,000 to $4,000 per mile, while the
main highways are almost impossible,
is all outrage nd disgrace. The tax
rate in the coming years will show who
pays for this frittering away OF pub
lie funds. Ii the people have got to
bear the burden OF the cost Oh good
roads, let them at least have some say
as to their location, and AS TO THE
CHARACTER OF THE ROADS
THEY ARE TO HAVE 1t is high
time the practical people OF this county,
who may not know practical politics"
but do know practical business, were
speaking out, i'll no uncertain tones.
The only thing the powers that be"
can be made to listen to is a vigorous
popular outcry. We better have that
outcry now, or there will be another
sort OF crying for some years to come,
from many quarters OF this county.