The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-03

concessions granted the residents of
the cities, towns and territory through
which the Jefferson Davis Highway
has been located, they will be permit
ted to construct and maintain said
Highway at their own expense ac-
,cording to the plans and specifications
and under the direction and control OF
this outside corporation.
We may be hundred years behind
the times, benighted moss-back that
has fastened itself on country news
paperdom, bright and shining exam
pie OF the ox-cart days, may and prob
nliliar with Minnesota conditions is
fully aware.
1--WE were one of the few who refus-
ed to get 'het' up over this matter at
any stage Of the game.
"We suspected that the present To-
cation was selected and agreed upon,
and stated our opinion to several gen.
tlemen last spring, before any trips
were taken and even before the rep
resentatives of the corporation left
Missouri. We had good reasons to be-
lleve that these locaters were ringing
in cold deck on the citizens along
the other lines and the outcome has
sustained our belief.
"There is no doubt now, that all the
trips taken over other routes was SIM
ply grand stand playing, to- crafty
certain parties love for adulation,
their joy in showing off, their pleas
ure in being toaded to and fro for con-
vincing the successful ones of the great
value of the prize they had secured.
They held all the aces up their sleeves
and dealt nothing but deuces to the
suckers with whom they were playing.
eve never considered the location
a mater Of prime Importance. 1t is
easy to locate a highway and bestow
upon it high sounding, romantic ap-
pellation; it is quite another matter to
get people to travel over it.
eve have had considerable expe-
rience with the travelling public and
especially with that portion that trav-
els for pleasure, and we know that
you can't get them to take road oy
simply giving it euphonious title.
You might call one the "Hesvenly
Trail and the other sHell's Highway,
and if the Highway passed through
the most delightful scenery, showed
the most fruitful farms, the most in
teresting cities and towns, was the
best road and afforded the best no.
tells and garage accomm odations the
Highway would get most of the tour
lists.
eff the Jefferson Davis Highway
men meet the above conditions more
completely than any other route they
will catch the crowds; if they do n ,t1
they won't and rag-chewing about the
matter is superfluous.
"The conditions imposed by this out
side corporation on the towns and ter.
ritory through which the Highway IS
located, hit US right on the funny
bone, gave us a wheeze, and we dotf
our hats and bump our heads three
times on the ground in reverential
admiration of the colossal nerve of the
locaters.
"They only demand: That the terri
tory traversed organize according to
the constitution and bylaws of cor
poration of a southern state, control
led and differed by non-residents, aD-
point a committee of seven men in
each county who shall be wholly sub
servient and that the territory be ir-
revocably tied up to this outside cor
pcration within sixty days.
"A certain number of subscribers,
the number to be determined by the
owners, shall be furnished to The JET
fcrson Highway Declaration paper
published in another state and a GER
tain amount of advertising be furnish
eG this sheet, amount of advertising