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Wa daatra o, onaet all aoeb omlasKma aid provant thalr rat jrranca.MONDAY, JANUARY 14.Borne aay tuts world la a bad, bad world.Bnt It’s always been good to me;With its errors there live dear hearts that for give,And hope for the things to be,This world is not old or cold;This world is not sad or bad;If you look to the right, forgetting the ntgttl And say to yonr soul, “Be glad.” —Ex.plaining, the patient, the paying public are entitled to better roade than neighborhood roads. I detest the phrase— neighborhood roads—so often used as applied to public roads. Pablic roads are not for the neighborhood merely; they are for the general public of the state and nation; they are for the use of all the people, rich or poor, male or female, yonng or old, president or pnper. As the pablic demand and have a right to demand that a railroad shall be equipped with the very best road bed. ties, steel rails and appliances] to insure the com-1 fort and safety of the traveling pnblie, so the pablic demand and are entitled to the very best roads that the taxes levied on the property of the people can give‘Contemporaneously with the abolition of the forced labor and commutation or working out system, connty boaTds should be required to employ a skilled person to make a survey and plan of all the public roads with profiles where that has not been done; and then under their supervision a system of construction and repair should be adopted and adhered to. Perhaps the county surveyor’s office onght to be dignified with that duty at a decent and respectable salary. Certainly the great schools of the state can snpply engineer graduates competent for such work. There is no reason why a county engineer should not be as bright and skilled In road making as a city engineer. There is no reason why the farmers should not have brains and skill provided to aid them in the art of road making as the denizens of cities now have.”We sell the thrones of angels for a shot and turbulent pleasure.—Emerson.The president is reported to be ver gloomy over the financial ontlook. Thlt; report is probably true. There is nothini particularly bright or encouraging ii the situation. Congress is not likely t pass any relief legislation. More gol mast be had in a very short time and i can be had only by Issuing 5 per cen bonds. And when the time comes tba the bonds will not sell, what then?.Can anybody tell what the administra tion of President Cleveland would hay done daring the last six months to re lieve the empty treasury, if it had no been for a law passed long ago by the Ri publicans, which now has to be made os of ostensibly to keep np the gold reservi really to pay current indebtedness? T save the treasury from utter collapse th secretary le compelled to resort to Republican enactment.NEEDFUL GOOD ROADS LEGISLATION*The Tbibune today presents the follow ing extracts from the address of Hoc John A. 8totsenbnrg delivered befor the association for the Improvement c highways at Indianapolis on the 8tl Inst“Oar road system is a relic of feudal ism. I had almost said of barbarism abstracted first by some of the olde states from England and France, wher it embodied the principle of compulsor road labor by the vassal to expedite th passage of the feudal lord and his me: at arms on their wandering and flghtini expeditions. In process of time it wa borrowed by oar law makers.It is as much a curse to Indiana, a for years has been that other silly, 0[ pressive mediaeval system prevalent i: this state of taxing steamboats and othe water craft for the privilege of landiDj at the wharves of the cities and pett towns of the Ohio River border. Citie and townships have heavily and almoe inextricably burdened themselves witl debt and taxes; and their enterprise public spirited citizens have made an are always ready to make donations o lots and depot sites to induce a railroa to come Into, or even pass tbrongb thi city or township, bnt from the force o long habit, withont reason, and in dlree antagonism to their own interests, th same municipalities for every landini which they make will tax steamboats coal boats and all water craft traveling for the producers’and consumers’ benefi on what God designed to be a free am untaxed highway.“If I were in the General Assembly o could influence the law making power o that subject, I would endeavor, no matte whether the present road system I changed or not, to secure, at least, th enactment of a law empowering Board
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New Albany Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Jan 14, 1895
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