Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-10-01
THE GREAT JACKSON
HIGHWAY.

leading from Nashville to New Or
leans shall be established.
The friends of the Military Roat
route have not given up the figh
for the selection of the line o
travel laid out and followed b.
Old Hickory hundred years ago
when moving his troops homewart
from New Orleans.
No matter where the proposed
highway runs it will necessaril.
be of great value to this section
and should it adhere to the Mill
tary Road, and thus pass through
Noxubee it will be of almost in
calculable benefit to the people o
the county-those living in an.
portion of it, though, to be sure
those whose homes are On the roat
will become the first, and most di
rect, beneficiaries.
Indeede the BEACON thinks tina
the Importance of it to this com
munity, should it come our way
can hardly be over estimated.
1t is the experience of mankind,
in every land and in every perioo
of . nations history, that ''of all
Inventions" as Macanley puts it,
''the alphabet and the printing
press alone excepted, those inven
tions which abridge distance hav
done most for the civilization q
our Species"
That certainly has been the cas-
here in America, and the fact j
especially notable in the rapid d.
velopment that followed in on
Western States and territories aft
er the building of the transcontil
entail railway lines connecting th
Atlantic shores with the Pacifi.
slopes.
When the great difficulty OF
passing from the older settlements
of the East to the unsettled fai
distant places of the West were
removed in the latter half of the
last century, the growth of all the
region beyond the Mississippi to
ward the setting sun, in wealth,
in population and prosperity,
caused the eyes of the world to be
turned in wonderment at the rap
idly, unprecedented advance in
the civilization of the Golden
West.
The benefits accruing to the
country in increase of population,
in moral and intellectual as well
as material improvement became
the talk of the age.
And so will it again be in the
near future, if this Jackson High
way is constructed, all over the
sections of country through which
it is to run from the North to the
South.
1t will bring the people of the
two sections closer social relations;
it will cause the inhabitants of
each "to know one another" and
then, as the great Lamar express
ed it, our countrymen twill love
one another;" social intercourse
will become so much closer that
Did prejudices and provincial anti
pathies will be removed, and cit
zens from Maine and Massechu.
'etts will fraternize with those of
Kentucky and Tennessee, of Ala.
oama and Mississippi, and all will
De bound together by common ties
alike to each, as should
)e the case between d ecent
branches of the human family.
The advantages to accrue from
he Good Roads movement, now
N foot from one end of our Re-
public to the other, are so patent
md numberless, and of such great
moment to the citizens, as to make
subject delightful to linger upon
nd elaborate, and we would that
pace could permit us to dwell
pom it, and portray in fitting
erms, the happiness and prosperi-
y improved highways are to bring
n the not distant sweet bye and
we to the very doors of Noxu.
eeans.
That to the BEACON is a thougbt