The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-11

Dss Mr5-ss RsgSs- and Leader
TIE RsSssssr and Leader need not az
SIRE Ese legislators thar the state
has Ec1 accepted the road legislation
- aS5s session Is ssssfEaS aaETEEnE
At Esss AL this legislature has done
LIS been 10 Eazeh an old harness
Sore euM rEzsory dragging has beea
r-wv56e1, which EzE amount TO no
Ezl-s than CIR compulsory reed cgitt-
nag Tss er71ntT boards have been giFsn
wc-s -sEsv ard IL many counties
this =EiE mean better kept highways-
drT SUMNER viii assist greatly in
sFve-rs1g pzblic attention But after
III ne problem remains and viii re-
EzE7 u--zs Iowa goes about it az 9th
- states ara doing
FOR RI aEAT BE SET DOWN
THAT IS IOWA LAND OWNERS
ACQUIRE THE MEANS TO LIVE
WHERE THEY CHOOSE. THEY
NTE.E. NOT CONTINUE TO LIVE
N THE COUNTRY IN IOWA IN
The MUD AID no ROAD THAT
Has YET BEEN PROVIDED FOR
IOWA Is ANYTHING But A MUD
ROAD IN WET SEASONS.
What Is y that il attracting SO
many ToEaas 10 California. TO FIori-
dz and sIseThere7 In nine cases out
Of ian the thing they speak Of as they
come home from their travels is the
delight they had N driving about
1he eoansry over smooth roadways-
Why has Los Angeles county issued
bonds for s., go o19-an astonishing
sum for one county 10 e1pend for
aag purpose Ehy is one California
county putting three millions and q
half into roads. that TO begin with
we're better than Iowa roads,
Not every county in Iowa nor
every township Is ready for good
zrads But there are counties and
townships that are losing hundreds Of
thousands OF dollars because they do
aot hare good roads EYery section
line is not ~ be improved in one
rear. Bur some section lines ought to
b improved just as rapidly us men
and monay can be got together TO dc
he work This legislature should have
made q beginning The next legisla
ture should not meet without a vel
digested plan for immediate action.
The Register and Leader is not Z
prophet, but ii has no difficulty what
ever in seeing time in the near fu
su-e when shipping over distance
Of afty miles or less will be rot b.
trolley car nor By steam rail, bit. b.
motor trucks that will need no ez
pengfye depots and viii involve nj
transfer charges. but which viii rul
from wholesaler 10 retailer, and from
farm TO market, and from small tow
. 70 big town 10 suit convenience TIL
Register and Leader knows of village
in the state today that are .vainl
struggling for trolley lines that Nigh
much better De demanding hard sul
faced roads and then invest in motto
Z trucks
Anybody. can foresee that goo
roadg are bound TO come. Why the
not be first. Why are twenty-eigh
: cities before the New York legisls
fITe demanding lies MONIES plan
I city government and WIZ has ID
I city OF Buffalo @Des Ioines Pia
: club Because Les Moines was FRI
: and not tenth. Anybody can see tha
g the age Of the motor truck and mote
. passenger car is here. Why not Low
, be frstg Why not Iowa be the sta;
10 make rural life the most attractiy
i, life on this continent Why not low
b fe the state to turn men back 70 III
g farm when In every other agricultur;
= state they are getting away from il
/. Why not Iowa be the state to first p
l. it's land to $500 an acre. az 1t will E
! sithin the memory of men nov II
3 ing2
There are men coming back TO tt
next legislature who know what ii
world has done, what other stat'
Il hare done, what Iowa ought to d
J. Let their coming two years be yea
e Of senona consideration Of the pa
a good roads are going TO play in Il
1. future prosperity OF Iowa.