St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-25
Sanders Address

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could understand it. The feature
of the address was the practical
bic manner by which good foads
can be built. No additional tax
ton, merely a change of system.
Exchanging antiquated ones for
modern up-to-date methods.
[ believe his address was edu-
cational to the limit. If after
this his hearers (who believe in
good roads, cannot convince those
who are opposed to depart from
existing methods. it will be be-
cause their hearers belong to the
school Of kickers, who should be
left to kick. d
Under the impetus of his adj
dress, let's get to work. Let's
pave a street and show to the
mossbacks the advantage over
our dirt roads. 1t is the differ
ence between a paved sidewalk
and a dirt one.
People of Opclousas, do you re-
memeer our dirt walks? Do you
remember our first plank walk
in 1888 from the depot to the
Methodiot church? Do you re-
member the opposition to our
present ones? II yes, you can
readily observe the difference
I am endeavoring to establish
and the gain uuder our new sys-
tenn. Who is it that would give
up the sidewalka we now have
for the primitive ones we had?
If any one speak, then | charge
him with being a mossback.
Turn him over to the Hook
Worm Club for criticism. They
will run him out of town, or put
him out Of business.
Returning to the subject, let
us strike the iron while it is hot.
Let's get together and devise
ways and means to carry the law
into effect whereby to obtain
bond issues and build a street or
two and a piece of road. This
done, the rest will be easy. AL
paved street will bring about the
paving of others the same as the
building of one sidewalk pro-
voked the building Of the miles
we have in this city. The peo-
pie of the town, the people of the
country can come together in
this effort. It will draw us closer
together. Like steam and cleo
tricity, it will annihilate distance.
It will convert a trip to your
town from a dread, to one of
pleasure. It will permit the town
folks to visit you. 1t will de-
stroy that isolation your boys and
girl complain of. Not only bring
US together, but knit more close
ly the people Of the city and
country into an indissoluble
union, which will drive out of
existence that distrust and jeal-
ousy and i'll feeling country folks
against the town people,
and vice versa.
Good roads are worth having.
They can be obtained. They
must be built. No paltering with
the opposition. Let's go after
these hammer and tongs, when,
if we do, our children will point
with pride to the fact we were
pioneers in the movement. A
movement calculated to bring
about, and which did bring
about, the untold blessings they
now enjoy. | hear the critic and
mossback say: Sanders is after
an Office. He expects to come
through the good roads
movement" What if he does?
[ heard one of his consistent op-
ponents say he was willing to
him even if the way led
to the United States Senate.
That's the way to look at it.
look a gift horse in the
mouth. If Sanders is working
his own advancement, and
we in the meantime can profit by
MS advice. let's have it, let's act
Upon it, and thereaftet if the
people choose to reward him by
him an Office, none should
oegrudge his holding it. Wheth-