The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-30
GOOD ROADS ARE
VERY IMPORTANT

foremost consideration of any vii.
lage, town or city DESTROYS of at
tracing settlers and capital to itself
anxious to provide ali means OF
land communication
And the legislature of this state
adjourned without passing all APP
preparation either for the building
of new roads or the finishing OF
others and their maintenance
Again, Governor Hay is hesitatine
about calling a special session of
the legislature to repair the omis-
sion.
The expense of special session
to the state ought not to have to
be borne by the taxpayers, because
in this case the legislators omis-
sion should never have occurred
The good roads bill should have
been among the first considered
and passed, and had less time been
given to memoralizing congress
with sundry resolutions and more
to business the roads appropriation
would have been granted. Per
haps these same legislators can re-
call times in their own lives when
they got upon their hind feet
and paved the air because a city
council or other law-making body
did not open up a certain stretch
of road. If this shoe is not pinch
ing them now the argument is flat
but the contention is a pretty safe
one to set forward and will pro-
cure its own proof.
Tacoma indeed will be a heavy
sufferer unless roads appropria-
ton is secured this season. If it is
secured it will mean that the road
from Centralia to the Willapa
harbOr country, which gives Ia
coma a direct communication with
that region, will not be completed.
This road is now all done but for
a ten mile piece. If unfinished it
will be Useless to this city and to
the county, which has spent 5000, :
600 on it, for two years.
The Willapa road is but one ex-
ample of what effect no road APP
preparation will have in this state.
In the fight to get the appropri-
alton through the legislature be-
fore it closed the State Good Roads
association was opposed by King
county, and is opposed now. King
county wants the lion, share of
the money spent i'll her confines.
BY the Wirc-puling, selfish tactics
of her representatives it now seems
as if the entire state must suffer.
Good roads mean more business:
good roads mean more travel about
good roads mean time saved, and
time saved is money saved, 1t is
up to the lawmakers to get busy
again and give the taxpayers what
they have paid for, and what is
more important to them than even
a liability law.
Good roads are essential Let :
keep the work up. Tacoma Tri-
bune.
Rev. Grim stated III his sermon
last evening at the Christian church
that he had been informed bv a
prominent citizen of Itllensbur2
that brewing company had de
cidcd to build a large hotel across
the street from the V NJ. {. y.
He further said that if the good
citizenship of l:llensburg would
enter the fight i'll earnest that we
can safely say no saloon shall
ever be opened across the street
from the Y. NJ {. \. Further
more, we will close all of the sa-
loon, now running This was re.
ceivcd by the audience with APP
plau>c.
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