Evening journal., 1912-05-09

needed men, and il is your duty with
your superior intelligence and facilities,
with your organization. TO 20 into the
country and do the missionary work that |
will bring about this result.
To Raise Civilization.
THAT is, if | understand the purpose (
OF this meeting. This Board Of Trade !
should give its banquets and can dis /
cuss among its members what is most /
desired TO be done, but what IS more I
important to 20 down into Sussex coun- /
ty. into Kent county, and into New Cas-
tic county and reason with these people
and get them to understand that this is
not primarily for the purpose OF roll
ing automobiles that we are interested
in this project IL is to raise civiiiza-
tion, to make people satisfied to re-
main on the farm and 10 add greater
wealth to the community in which. they
are personally concerned. am plead
ing for no automobile road. am
pleading here for commercial roads that
will make it possible for these people
I to transact their business with greater
advantages TO themselves and always
opening the highway for you, gentlemen,
TO come down and see MS.
Il live in county known as Wicom-
leo. an old Indian name. and Mr.. Mar
vel has not misreprescnted IL in what he
said of it j. years ago. ] go back fur
ther than that | go back thirty years
ago. It is always interesting The peo-
pie are along the same old Anglo-SsNon
stock with practically no immigration
for centuries The original strain Hos
pitable, apparently satisfied. 1t was in
other particulars one of the most un-
] f....4 .fa nf
that / had ever visited. ] was not
raised there am a Baltimorean. !
saw a character living there that ap-
palled me. ] saw men living in houses
that were not tit to protect cattle. !
saw men poor because of the numerical
number of the acres of land that they
owned. saw the farms simply
scratched over. never cultivated ] saw
them rotate those crops once in three
years and frequently only once in five
years bccaus ethe land was so poor II
would not support unsided and unassist.
: ed. Because OF their poverty they could
4 not supply the life 10 it any more con.
stantly At that tim ethe roads, the
character of their soil is almost entire
81 " sandy, and during the summer months
and during the winter. as we'll, they are
: practically impossible. Many times
: person only five or six miles from Sails
i bury did not see il once in several years
I met children twelve yeurs OF age whcl
! was going around buying timber, wh'
only knew Salisbury as q tradition
e They really did not know it actually OK
3, isted The explanation is very simple
y They could not possibly get there. The.
e were too poor 10 have high stepping
r, horses and the effort to 90 was TO-
y trying upon what few horses they di'
d have, that out OF charity and out o
necessity they were compelled TO re
e main at home. We had up the subiec
n of good roads started about fifteen year
y ago and extended only about one mil
le to a fair ground
e. Mile an 0bjesr Lesson.
l. "The object lesson of this one littl
"a mile of road was so evident, so distinc
h. the improvement of the land borderin
s. upon the rapid increase and dcsirah
is ity of that land was such that thcl
ge was immediate demand made upon Il
he county commissioners TO extend tho
ne roads The county commissioners did e.
to tend them few miles hoping TO plaza
their constituents. lt only aggr3vat'
". them The two or three miles made
he insistent demand for more good road
or and the county commissioners thl
ne backed up and said: we have not z
Ia the money! Well, they said, How mu
Mt money have You gott' Wen, we W
M tell Won what we will do. We w
,c. make this proposition to every secti'
n Of this county We viii give you shel
of that shall not cost us over three cen
is. per bushel, and if you people want q
nj roads YOU got TO grade them, You ha
"a to put the shells on them, and you ha
m. to pay the additional amount over Il
20 three cents that the shells cost. &c
,Iv tlemen the shells went up to five al
six cents per hushel. These people a
cepted the county commissioners prop
%. sition and they made such deman
a upon the county commissioners that Z
- county commissioners had to call ha
% ~ Those roads cost in the neighborhood
~ $500 a mile. The citizens cheerful
IIy paid that $1,000 mile and the coun
ie commissioners had TO refuse to p
u s their 81 800 mile. Then they call
'n' a meeting of the citizens of Wicomi
n county, and they said, DO you want
l's bonded debt for the road? They sa
ne No. we do not want a bonded dcf
nn They said, What do YOU wantT y
esO want the roads, we realize that
w. should pay for them We know th
an they vii appreciate the value OF q
ne farms and we hereby authorize YOU
mp the largest meeting that ever saw
on Salisbury. Md, TO put the tax ri
ith wherever in your opinion it should go
give us those roads.
igh Values Doubled
the "Now. gentlemen, that is getting son
his thing the right way They wanted
ion. an they paid for il and they knew wl
irm they wanted, and they were pcrfec
can willing to give the money for it. WI
the WAS the result? The result is that
OF have now in that county, about Is mi
r. OF good road. Along the line OF th
ght roads and for several miles beyond Tho
because even the people beyond the
mediate road always ,njoy the Benefit
ted the good road That land has apprecia
axe i'm value. you viii hardly believe me w
'ple 7 tell YOU. from 30 to 1000 per C.,
'me Think of il. I know what ] am talk
IN uN- about, those farms are no longer
Vie' cause of embarrassment to their o.
i"- ers
~Instead Of having acreages owned
ven lots Of 3. and 800 acres, they now h
on 5 divided those farms up into 20, 80, 40
''u 50acrc farms. and at our last asscssm
p OF the realty ina Wicomico county in
% years. We have shown an actual incre
- on the tax book OF something nearly
per cent Think of IT, Why this p
-. perity exists I do not credit it all To 2
cio' roads. but wherever YOU sec good rol
en-. vou find desirable property. willing b
ever ers, rapidly enhancement OF values
will very much larger population than
thc before.
.bev Lsuds Governor Crothers.
49, ssNov gcnflemcn We and the STATE