Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-03-02

boys .lc s. simply will not be kept
IL the .ural districts ten miles from
any town under such conditions, how.
ever much you may talk about the no.
BILE life OF the country. II Is too often
the most lonesome existence on earth.
II you wish to live In the country and
bring up your family around you, II
you wish them blessed by the things
which are good and sweet In rural life,
then you must give them the pleasant
things Of life in the city
Build good roads to the city, you will
lose none Of the seclusion and sweet
ness of the country. The sunshine
and dew and the landscape are still
there, the fertile fields and the low
ing herds, and the scent of new mown
hay, and the silent benedicton of the
evening are still yours. With good
roads and automoblle-if you cannot
get an automobile, borrow a Ford
the wife and her boys and girls can
go to church, they can 60 to the fair,
they can 90 to places of amusement,
they have the advantage OF the pleas.
ures Of the city, and you have not been
deprived OF your country home or any.
thing that makes IT desirable or love.
| ly. You will never solve the question
OF back to the country" until you
| have made the country more attrac-
tive. You. cannot keep your family in
the country with ten or twenty miles
of impossible dirt roads between
them and things they want for nine
month in the year.
Increase In Prosperity.
The country will be happier, more
thickly inhabited If the roads we're
improved, and the city will finally in.
crease in prosperity whenever you
unite the two By macadam roads
Both political parties-l am not here
to talk politics-bave condemned the
contract labor system both parties
have told you that they are In favor
OF employing conyicts upon the road.
Now the counties have the right to
employ whom they please with the
money they raise themselves, and II
Is yexed question TO what extent,
where the state can force the convict
labor upon the county, coming as II
must more or less. In competition
with free labor. In Edmondson coun.
". especially. we have an unlimitable
deposit OF rock asphalt, material
that viii cover your macadam roads
with waterproofng thousand times
more indestructible than oil; a sub.
stance, hard, yet elastic, that Is as
X af0Ufine AZ tfihfDie Andyer tbs vast
and priceless deposit today is reached
only by dirt roads that are almost
impossible. This is a disgrace to Ken.
lucky ! would see, and hope Ia
see, the labor OF convicts, as well as
others, employed In the development
OF these great quarIie-. ! hope 10 see
? this, the greatest road.making ma
/ terial ever known. spread over five
. thousand miles OF boulevard all ovei
B. Kentucky from the mountains to Mill.
(. Point
, | could talk TO you for a week upor
, this subject Oh, II means so mucl
10 Kentucky as state There Il
A much 10 expect from the development
! OF good roads No other state in thii
Z union has such a variety and a wealth
OF undeveloped resources; more Goa
!. than Pennsylvania; more hardwood
4 than any other commonwealth be
\ tween the Mississippi and the Pacific
a and more acres OF fertile soil than an,
|. other state Of like area between tn
= two oceans. Our soil produces
4 greater variety OF products than an
other on this earth. Why is II tina
/. the wealth Of the mountain and III
r wealth OF the plain are not developed
o II is because the people OF the mour
r tains cannot reach the wealth OF IN
!. plains, and the people OF the plain
a cannot avail themselves OF the wealt
A OF the mountains because OF the cos
. OF getting from one to the other.
! This is eliminated by connectin
Q them by great highways. II will II
. crease the fertility OF the soil and IN
q richness Of the mines and the vas
n wealth OF the forests.
n Upon this great movement rests III
4 happiness and the prosperity OF IN
n greatest people on earth, the peopl
n who live and expect 10 die In old Kei
lucky. God bless her.
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