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


For the three days we are going to talk roads
with you.
Here and there everywhere great problem
is roads We hear discussion about roads than other
economic political problem before Roads, roads, roads
That's the issuoad The American for the next
ten going to be roads railroads and
roads, auto roads, anything everything that road that
tains to roads. e<4% - u
have roads, The issue ROADS, The of all road
issues however the railroad issue and the railroad
issue going to be the leading political issue in the next national
campaign. ,@.ea@ -....
The that will the railroad issue ipor
lance issue auto roads, county highways
the ways to get to town.
city roads, the and and bouevards all
roads, bringing problems, compelling laws We
must gate make regulate and pepeuate the
roads, all kinds Of roads, from everywhere to everhehere
in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AMERICA HAS MOUNTED WHEELS.
The question bringing its problemsintricate
complicated problems They problems that concern the BANK
they the school, the farmer and the merchant the church
and the court problem before the American people
comparable with the problem of the roads
The railroad most pressing problem since
it came The LONG HAUL. It is the long haul
that possible think and live in terms of con-
tnents wagon road limits US to terms Of counties
Europe is continent counties Her governments her
traditions her preudces languages tongues dialects are all
limited to little princpates the dimensions of which were de-
termined by constituted early times pretenous journey
by wagon. essE t"1
Even in the early days of this country
plan democracy conform the limitations of RAIDS The
highway tired coach imposed too great
limitations upon the political education Of the people
them elect their President 1t was
long Washngons time for distinguished so
der the people of all sections OF the thirteen
coast colonies the great prophet Of democracy Thomas
Jefferson sagacous statesman John Adams might
easily have repudated the polls because the Of voters
had no way to see The great union of states of
which these Virginia patriots dreamed might have been broken
into petty municipalities of European dimensions they had
trusted our political to the limitations of the roads
Wisely they did not. ~ .:a.a~ %".H# .t:=t#s &
Of road limitations they provided that the people
President Of the United States Georgia.
would and for she knew
and Pennsylvania and Virginia would each for
who had been the roads of ter own
who had met the people and gained their confidence The
believe in them to trust them and glad toll
elect THEM electoral college which device f<
selecting the President United States Without roads direct
election was inlpracticable if not impossible.
college political relic recognition
Of the important part that roads play in the political structure of
the nation. We directly than permit
Today railroads carry everywhere wires
vey conversation they carry interviews deliver
every town from Berkshire Hills Tulare from the
waters Lakes and the ST. to the Gulf
Shores and from parallel 49 to the dry banks of the Rio Grande
Presidential candidate may sit his porch Springfield
Marion Esopus Oyster Bay at Canton Lincoln
not yardu Of people but
people The telegraph the sennes along the road
way that carries the minds Of to the minds of These
wires and likewise of the great highway
problem part the great issue of roads, roads,
To-day still relic of electoral college
1t created that might know whom voting
knowing full well that could know the candidate himself
Today know what candidate for President indirectly
voting for but not citizen five hundred has the mote