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to be fixed. Take out a piece of paper and pencil and write down just 

 where lliat bad hole is and submit it to the road ollicials and tell them 

 that this thing' has been under your observation and that you would 

 like it tixed and see what they are going to do about it. If they say 

 they will do it when they can, that is not the thing. You want to find 

 out what day the repairs Avill be made and make it your business to be 

 there on that day and if nobody shows us, find out why they don't 

 show up. This may be a rather strenuous policy, but it is the only 

 way 1 find you get your road improvements. And gentlemen just re- 

 member this, that this road proposition depends on us a great deal 

 more than it depends on the Legislature. For example: Mr. Jones, 

 of Susquehanna county, introduced the Jones dirt road bill. He 

 asked three millicm dollars appropriation for the use of each of our 

 townships so that we could get fifty cents on the dollar for every 

 township that had a cash tax. What happens? Why the Jones bill 

 got knocked in the head and it is almost down and out. And it came 

 out of conference last night there was five hundred thousand dollars 

 to be awarded to the Jones bill for two years, two hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars a year for this great State with 4,500 townships. 

 Why, look at it. 



I am sure, members of this Institute, that this is a pleasure and 1 

 trust that you will not forget that it is just as important to have the 

 transportation roads between the places 3'ou grow j'our stuti" and sell 

 it, that it is just as important to have these roads improved, and you 

 have a part to play in it, as you know how to sell your stuff at a profit 

 or how to grow it successfully. (Applause). 



MR. RANDALL: This is my first attendance on an institute of 

 this kind and I am very grateful that the good Director had fixed the 

 institute in the place he had because as 1 came down over the hills 

 in my own county and came down to Lancaster county with her vine- 

 clad hills and beautiful valleys and noticed her beautiful farms and 

 came down into her city and got acquainted with her people. 1 found 

 that she was rich not only in agricultural lines, rich not only in the 

 beauty of her country, but rich in her proverbial hospitality that 

 makes it a pleasure for peoj^le to come and have people to meet. 



So I say that in coming here to-day I have no criticism to make 

 upon the way institutes have been conducted. I agree with the gentle- 

 men that has spoken about the bad and hard times they have, because 

 they can testify, if they wanted to, that have been in my county or 

 traveled over the hills on Sabbath day twenty to twenty-five miles. I 

 appreciate that, and sympathize with them on that question because 

 I don't believe in working on the Sabbath day. and I don't believe that 

 men ought to be compelled to work on the Sabbath day, and I deplore 

 the necessity of having an institute on Saturday night at a place 

 twenty-five miles out; but when we have it at home Ave have the court 

 house and then I jjrefer to have the meeting on some other night be- 

 cause people do not want to come in on Saturday night. I think it is 

 better and I think it is necessary for the lecturers that they should 

 have time to rest and to write and to go to church on Sal)bath day in- 

 stead of riding over the hills. Now the Director has done good work 

 in fixing the institutes. He has sent lecturers both ladies and gentle- 

 men, and they have done excellent work and cannot be criticized for the 

 work done, because the work shows it self and that is proof. Our far- 



