The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-10
ADVOCATES GOVERNMENT
BUILDING OF HIGHWAY

to New York-and / said let's go up
in the great park and drive around
and see. And when we came back my
wife said why there are better COM
mon roads in France and Germany
than the roads in the park and how
are they maintained? BY the govern
ment. Every five miles in the coun.
try where I was they were under the
care and keep of road master Ordi-
narily he was an old soldier who need
ed government support. Whenever
there was a chuck hole or any defect
in the road it was not allowed to 20
by until the next storm and the next
storm until 1T made great hole. 1t
was filled up at once. remember be-
ing up in the mountains in southern
Germany where there was a road that
Napoleon built in his day, over the
mountains, and there was the daugh-
ter of the roadmaster with a case
knife on her knee in the road picking
up the little grass that had grown up
between the stone blocks now and
then. That is the way they keep the
road. They keep it like you keep
your walks in front of your house be-
cause it is beautiful, because it is use
full. because 1t pleases you, because it
pleases me when l come to visit you
at your own house and let us all agree
that all the roads in Indiana beginning
at Richmond and going to Terre
Haute and elsewhere shall be as we'll
kept as they can be kept and think
how much it will add to the pleasure
and comfort of all our three millions
of people.
Patriotic Service.
Now, friends, think this is a pa
triotic day and while we are doing
this we Wal do other good things We
will help all we can by teaching the
law of neutrality and of Christianity
to suppress as far as we might this
savagery that has turned loose like a
wild lion in Europe today between ma
tons, and next let us make this re-
public and our flag stand as an en-
blem of Christian peace and noble in
telligent fellowship. All the nations
Of the world look to America. No re-
public has been established since JEFF
ferson wrote the Declaration of indie
pendence and our forefathers wrote
our constitution. No republic has been
established on this continent or in
Europe that has not been modelled
after our form of government-the
American republic-where all men
have an equal voice in the manage
ment of the public affairs, where all
children have an equal right to attend
the public school, where every man
can worship God according to his own
conscience or not worship at all, if he
don't want to-; where men are free,
where no man can be deprived of his
property or his liberty until he has
been tried in a court of justice and
before jury of his own people. These
things are what make this republic.
| These are the things that Jefferson
and our fathers established for this
country. l mean this Indiana country
These are the things that make Amer
lea great. These are the things that
! fill our hearts with patriotic love for
| the republic and Old Glory on these
anniversaries. These things let us
keep alive.
A man from Wayne county-than
which there is no better county any
where-that will stand for the princi-
pies, Mr.. Chairman, that you and you>
are working for today, state roads,