The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-14

thing more of a concrete nature.
Most of the audience appreciated
this statement
In Kansas there are too many
hard-surface roads built on soft drinks
and mashed potatoes.
After our good roads dinners, the
roads are apt to go up with the smoke
in the State Journal cigars.
The first thing TO do in giving
rabbit dinner is to catch the rabbit;
the first thing to do in getting a, good
road is to get law to work the road
by. We haven't got it yet.
There are more places for good
roads in Kansas than in any other
state in the Union.
"A good road is rather to be chosen
than great riches; and a fine highway
than silver and gold, for good roads
bring all the others.
I'VE have got to pave a good road
with something besides good inten
tions.
Good roads, even with higher
taxes, make life more worth living
than low taxes and rough, muddy
highways; as you get your moneys
worth in the first case and you get
nothing in the second.
at is better to build a good road
at once and for all, than to be eter-
nally repairing a bad one.
Everybody is for good roads. but
rev Dullu them IN Kansas.
There are two sides to this Ques-
ton: Those who favor good roads
and those who favor bad ones. Let
the man who takes the negative stand
up and show the color of his hair!
I'VE will never have a real heaven
in Kansas. or the millennium until we
quit paving our roadbeds with good
intentions only.
"Our officials-all of them-can
draw up plans and specifications for
the finest Kansas roads in the world,
but they won't let the legislature pro-
vide the funds.
when will we have representatives
who favor a good road more than they
do cheap reputation for keeping
taxes down?
want something for nothing. There is
only one way to get something for
nothing, and that is to pay for IT, I'M
less you go to the great and only Free
State Fair, and Topeka has to and
gladly does, pay for that.
"a good road leads to business; a
bad one to destruction.
Everybody wants to get rid of u
poor road: nobody wants to part with
a good one
"A good road saves times and tires
and leads to happiness and prosperity.
New Jersey has the biggest mos
quitoes and the best roads and best
road laws. The best roads ought to go
with the best state: state that raises
the most wheat and has the finest Peo-
pie and the best foundation for good
roads.
"A few months ago, we had Red
Line road meetings in Topeka. Every
body was enthusiastic about the road
until the farmers along it found they
had to pay for it. Other people use
the road five times as much as the
man alongside of it. He ought not to
pay for more than a fifth of it.
THE state ought to pay about 1000
for the main highways, the counties
and municipalities about 400 and the
man by the roadside about 20@o. You
can't build a good road on the $3.50
plan and make the farmer be one of
the two.
I'VE need an amendment to the
constitution to help Kansas out of the
class of 'tightwads' SO far as good
roads are concerned, and that is the
one amendment we want the legisla-
ture this winter to submit to the peo-
/ pie Kansas talks goed roads and
wants good roads. but will not con-
tribute a cent for them as a state, and
yet. if we have good roads, the state
will get the credit for them.
I'VE hate to admit it. but Governor
Capper said in his talk today. that the
state of Arkansas had better roads
than the state of Kansas.
Mr.. Peake, the speaker from Kan
sas City, Mo-, admitted that the good
roads in that locality were built by
money furnished by the state of Kan
sas. Let us spend our money for i'm
mo roads -