The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-24

whom he is voting for s the states electoral candidates
the body in fact selects the President Of the United States
Roads and nothing has brought about this change
the railroad have taken rs direct to
figures Of the political contest for choice
President of the United States when the time framed
our political machinery could not. ~
before the railroad is now and always will be the
most important road issue because LONG HAUL It's
the long haul that keeps this connenwde country homo
geneous strong commercially intellectual economic
and financial leader of world The thing that makes great
keeps great which greatness depends must be-
Is the most important thing before u.s. r
TRANSPORTATION is the business that everybodys
mess and which bo business depends What shall
do with it? Shall leave private corporation hands? If
why with consistency roads
try highways the auto roads private corporation hands Why
should the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad the New
York Central the Louisville Nashville the ties and
steel ribs bridges that railroad while
public the macad the concrete the bupy brick
road which and wagons go? II
railroads which country dependent private
enterprise why shouldn't highways
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific highway New York Central
and L. N highway? Let's pay private corporations nominal
fee for the right to roll from Mobile here and blame
them the road is in bad repair The just as logical and
right the other going have private ownership of
why should not have private ownership of the other?
do not first unfair to ourselves by maintaining
the public which subjected to private abuses secondly
unfair the railroads because maintain against them
absolutely unfair competition We build the roads for
freight truck and road upkeep grades and builds
road To be equally fair should keep the railroads by pub
lie tax.
The brought country road question into local
political Of prominence only here in Pensacola but
everywhere. We roads, need roads, must have roads
have begun talk bonds build roads haven't
finished the road problem have just Just started o
ourselves into political prplexe that going to
gage the thought of predetermined and for
long time to come .s
The railroads have abused the public trust There
reasons have right fault with the railroads But
remember, if be farnnded and that we
put DEMANDS the railroads, rightly to be sure
regulate We do let them they please
them what they and what they cannot We create
interstate commissions and bind the rail-
their rulings The separate states and the nation at
large hand regulating the railroads and they Do MOTT
regulate our highways.
We compel the railroads to keep their lines good
inspect their roads We force them certain standard Of
upkeep you imagine railroad grading its the
country laying it's ties and ng down its rails and then leaving
the road to simply into tpassby? Yet that is what we
do with our highways. .".
We demand good job from the railroads yet
paving contractor get by with shamefuly shoddy
job
evident combination got control Of Florida
and handed Florida gold brick good big too
brick road that will stand the most expensive road
build Road engineers all that unless brick road laid
in the most expensive it is
road you put down. The brick roads built in Florida
largely shoddy bricks all right but the way
foundation for them all wrong
people selling Florida good they
merely selling bricks And the public bumps along its
ounco. r.. :. /
We don't whether these brick people sold these bricks
brick road price and got away with merely laying the
brick sand whether they only sold just that which they
delivered Much better to have put those roads under
private corporation Che Fagr system and forced regua
ton and upeep standard have you could ride
than to vote let Of bonds build highway of bumps
Tomorrow going to talk this road business with
you more
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interesting experiment being made by the street rail-