The Marshall republican., 1912-04-12
On Good Roads

irtau tne drtcle WRITTEN IN your
paper by Mr.. Carl Cox, Of Nelson
In regards to our public officials
and our public roads, and ] think
what he says is about right, as
what understand him to mean Is
to say there isn't very much in the
name OF any particular kind or
brand Of political faith unless II
is backed up by good and faithful
service after election, andI too
think one should be very. careful
In his choice OF candidates and try
and find out the fitness, qualifica-
ton and integrity OF his choice
and then abide by his judgement.
Just the same as any good archi-
tect would do In his selection of
material to build the state capitol,
or any other construction work Of
large Dimensions as to that matter
and you know he would Gull out
all material that had not been tsss-
ed for its purity and strength and
its ability to stand the strain, and
we as voters are our own archi-
tccts. and we will have to be care
full In u selection OF material as
there r many kinds on the mar
ket today and our requirements
ought to be the kind that has been
tested out and not found wanting
regardless of any particular name
they may be paradiog under.
One wouldn't have to travel very
far on our public high ways at pre-
sent. OF any other time for that
matter Ia @ lack Of enforcing
the road laws M our lawmakers
intended they should be.
We all well know that we hav-
emit evenue enough to build good
hard roads, but 1t doesent take one
whit more money to improve the
road laws than IL does to let them
go In the hap hazard way they are
today. Idont think anybody ever
saw In any other county except
Saline farmers tile their farms and
bring the main lead tile out to the
main public road and dust deliber-
ately dump the whole flow OF the
drain right into the road, and leave
IL there year after year and not
one word from the proper Official.
We all know that the farmers mrst
drain their wetl and, and we know
another thing too, II the road law
was enforced they would come to
the center OF the road with the
tile, now the center mind you, not
the side, and they would go down
the center until they came to n cul-
vert II the culvert was close or far
away and we know another thing
oil two-if the road officials at
tended to their business there
wouldn't be any more good grad
ing in winter time, neither would
there be any more money spent on
the famous King road drag until
the side bitches we're opened up
and the noses of some OF the hills
cut off and dumped in the flat
places and the road properly grad
> ed up and holes tiled out down the
, center OF the road to n culvert and
p not Just out to the edge OF the
? road and turned loose for every
, wagon to cut furrow and bring
Z the water right back In the road.
r Now, dragging road that Is in
[ the conditions that our roads are
, In il good hard labor wasted as II
/ seems to- me, anyone outside OF
, the asylum walls ought to know
4 that you couldn't drag the water
I seeps and tile water soaked roads
II IL a common practice for some
Y OF what we call our representative
4 citizens to haul all manner OF old
? plumber which they think they
: CAM use and don't want and just
4 dump II out I'M the road. Now
: saw a president OF a bank In Mar
q shall who lives In the county have
his lawn moved and the grass
and weeds carried out right In
front of his residence to the mid
die OF the road and 1t laid there
> until II decomposed and washed
away, when he could just as vel
have hauled 1t on and let 1t de-
compose upon his own farm which
would have been a benefit nc
doubt to his land. Now all OF these
conditions cannot be laid to the
y no-funds plea as my understand
T ing OF the road officials salary II
by the day, month or year and moi
by the piece.