The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-15
GOVERNOR WILSON
 ABOUT HIGHWAYS
Future President Wants Them Developed = Part of Speech Before American Road Con- gross

(Governor woodrow Wilson before American Road Congress at Atlantic Cftv.9
 As look forward to the future of
 the history of the United States, I see that we must do what we nave been
 very backward in doing as compared
 with other nations, we must more ana
 more engage the government In pro- vfding the general facilities of the
 There is no breach in that of any
 of our elder understanding or tne function of government We nave
 never doubted that the government had the right to maintain highways.
 We have never doubted that the gov
 ernment had the right to supply those
 facilities that private endeavor mas
 never been expected to supply. There
 fore we are not upon new ground
 theory; we are merely upon new
 ground of practice, and when tninK i, of what the highways mean, feel
 to be thinking of the whole history or the human race.
 l tell you very frankly that my irl-
 interest in the very much more inn poFtant matter of a4fording ff1e EaxTn-
 CTS of this country and the residents in villages the means of ready access
 to such neighboring markets as they
 need for the economic benefit. But 1t is also the weaving Of az cornpficateu and elaboratte a net of neignDonnooo
 and state and national opinions to- gatf1ef as it is possible to weave. It Is of the most fundamenta1 irn-
 portanee that tine United States should gether should think ultimately as a
 whole, and I feel, in my enthusiasm for good roads, some thing of the old opposition that 9here has always Deep in me to any kind of sectional feed- ing-to any kind of class feeling. Every cba2S has it's argument for gether. they form am irresistible nasr of arguments, but the result of, the
 whole reasoning to my mind, is sirn-
 ply tflas-tine United States has. up of it's people drift. It has throwD the reins on our necks and said:
 ampIed richness; do what you please don't break each others heads. We will try to see that you do 5s1stace until you 90 combine with one a11-
 other that justice is possible. but we are not going to lend the aiG of She government to the acenaa task of de-
 That has been ts1e general Attitude of ! our government up to this time If cannot be that attitude any longer
 annle msgs are Yon nlhs take " not nnts @ n1erely m the matter of good roads and the carrying | Of goods to market, but of what goods
 shsre sns are to be carTsed to the @ HsaTases as 1 in the United States does not favor i ably compare with the production of the older countries of the world. We used to lead the world and our grain exports were our chief exports, but I the exports Of grain are going down. and domestic demand Is increasing faster than the product, so that a great deal of our commercial history 1 is about to be altered by the cfrcufn- l stances of agricultura1 production Whenever you increase what the | United States is doing, you must fnl mediateIy increase the facilities Of the United States for handling what it has made after 1t has made it. Yo, cannot radonaIly increase the pros perity Of this country wfthorgt increas- ! ing the road facilities Of this coun~ | try.