The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-09
Goods Roads Department.

ii the people have to build them and
pay for them.
Abundant thanks are due to those
who begin a good movement for the
people. and the popular support till
the sun goes down, to the lengthenins
of the un's dial-t!,at ti.5 battle may
be won and the work done. Bonds
must be issued, say those whose brain
have counted the thoughts. the cost,
the worry. the prodigious labor, the
steps OF down-cast faith. and too,
triumph Joy between present and fu-
ture. To build roads that will remain,
calls for new processes as the build
Ing Of frame supplants log cabins,
and brick and stone structures replace
frame: and future generations So
benefit by the siauncn improvement,
That could the present open its eyes
In the future 1t would behold that fu-
ture arise and call the past blessed.
Had the past of the present genera
tion built good roads with the hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars frittered
away On honest Intentions, but un-
skilled labor. the present generation
OF the country would be hauling to
market twelve bales of cotton with
two mules, as they do up In Charlotte,
N. c.. on Macadam roads. instead of
the two bales to two mules these win
ter days.
A road Is no better than the worst
place in 1t, and farmers load their
mules for those places and not for
the good places. which, were the road
| all the way good, would accommodate
farmers and teamsters to twice and
| thrice the amount OF weight the roads
| allow the teams to pull now. :,
| But bonds cost money, say the con-
| servatin, who want to see two dollars
to one before the one is trusted even
| to providence; 80 do clothes. If q man
has an $18. suit on his back, that
ID what he wants; he does not want a
$500 suit or he would purchase such,
| and he does not want the $1S 90 suit
Tor $500, because he knows there
would be something wrong with it.
Such a suit would be dear to such a
man at any price; 80 he is careful to
Duy what he wants and pays for It.
A $4,000 piece of road say, to a man
OF representative principles iu ms
township is not what he wants when
the road of durability which the whole
community and county wants, and
knows to be highway Of the $18,-
quo tyne. He would very emphatical-
ly say to the retailers Of such pro-
| position, take 1t away before you
baild 1t. 1 want a road that stays
put; =! don't want to be hauling and
dragging and plugging a poor uncon-
cerned one-horse affair that is down
| 1T the hoof every time a rain comes
AS he would say to the tailor, 1 want
my suit on my back as / place It, I
don't want Tn =
iengthened and widened and worked
over every time a rain falls on It. So
the bonded roads are even more eco
nomical than any illustration that
would be legally possible to produce.
Say moderately comfortable,fa farm
er whose taxes amount to $50 to s35
each year under the bonded issue,
would pay $2.50 TO 50. 90 additional
for the new roads, maybe % to 90
cents month in difference, and the
road work Is to be begun at once all
over the county, and progress In sec.
lions under every mans eyes, would
the special man in illustration say
at the emo OF even one year, Here
take your road away and give me my
money!" He would say. 81 would not
Tor any amount go back to. the roads
| We mad find q years pleasure in
one months travel, to say nothing OF
the gain. in the hauling use of the
road.
The way to prepare for prosperity
Is 70 work up toward 1t. If times were
nard, for instance, for many under
the supposedly war" grind. much of
the declaim is repetition from the cry
or one man to the cry OF anoher and
In the reality It will be seen that under
the most prosperous years past the
same men and women who are very
ambitious and Impatient for the
White wings OF success to come, al
ways found the plentiful years Just
as hard to get along with, and hard
times about something always Staring
tnemq In the face: and, throughout
the general congregation or the whole
people were progress to ASK them.
when are you ready for me to be-
ginf" Theysw0uld answer, .'Not now.
Eif 1t Costs nle; anything, times are
TOO hard And this would 60 On for
ever and forever. Yet, people are ait.
uated generally alike and nre aa5 the.
little fellow who complained sfcr lack.
OF money: -'--' ~, -
fou are wealthy, son if you only
knew IT said the father.
but Jamie, the little nelghbpr who
mad received $500 90 for a broxcn leg
rom the railroad was to be- ery.ed
say son, now what would you take
Tor: one OF: vonrs eyes?" sue..ea fhe
father--sA thousand doliarsgs
20. no, papa y.
ora the other eye ?''
mo, no, papa -
You have two lianfla. yvnuldn4 y,,.,,,