624 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Inasmuch as we are living in the best age the world ever saw, a day 

 of progress in all the various enterprises that make a happy and pros- 

 perous people, the best government on which the sun ever shone, a day 

 when a man who would dare to oppose or mar the rights of a citizen 

 would be so condemned by the expression of public sentiment that he 

 would no longer be called a good citizen; a day of education, when around 

 the fireside of an evening, when the day's duties are done, we can read 

 the doings and happenings of the entire world on the day they occurred; 

 a day when we can communicate by the telephone with our neighbor as 

 satisfactorily as if he was at our side in the parlor; let us give this good 

 roads question our favorable consideration, and why not be unanimous in 

 favor of the construction of the twelve miles of road now under consid- 

 eration? We need these roads. Our laws are such that we have to pay 

 our taxes to support other gravel and stone roads of our county, and 

 there are already a great many miles of such roads now built and many 

 more being built, and the only way we can get our money back to our 

 own township is to have roads of our own to be thus maintained. We 

 are as ready now as we will ever be. The material is as available as it 

 will ever be. Many of our people need the opportunities to earn an honest 

 dollar as much as they ever have, due to the corn failures we have had 

 the last season. We want rural routes established as quickly as possible, 

 and these we can not have without good roads; and our farmers should 

 have the same opportunities as the business man to inform himself and 

 be posted, up-to-date, and this is impossible without the rural route 

 system. 



The payments of the tax are on easy terms and when these twelve 

 miles of roads are made they are then off our hands and all our resources 

 to make good roads are then expended on the other roads of the town- 

 ship. Let us have that progressive spirit and say by our words and votes 

 that our people are as good as any people and must have the best, and 

 under the law that these roads are proposed to be built the business men 

 who own but little real estate will equally share with the farmers in the 

 payment of the same. It is "up to the farmers" of White Post Township 

 whether they will have the business men with an aggregate of $230,000 

 taxable property help carry their load. We can have this, and I feel quite 

 sure, we will bless the day when we made the undertaking. 



To our friends from Gillam, Snlem, Jefferson and Cass Townships: 

 We come to your doors with these roads— say a good Avord— take them up 

 where we leave them. We can go no farther. Extend them through your 

 townships and by the united efforts of all we can soon have good roads, 

 connecting all our towns and villages. Let us not stop until this is done. 



