SELECTED SAYINGS 



which employ thousands of men; the mechanic owns no land, has no 

 settled habitation and is a toiler of fortune. History repeats it- 

 self; we have returned to the baronial conditions of the middle ages. 

 The great lords of manufacture are seeking to repress labor and 

 crush the smaller factory, labor combines and demands a larger 

 share of the common plunder." 



"The planter needs to reduce the cost of transportation; the 

 laborer to provide the homes and cheaper living; the merchant 

 wants the country air. What opposes? Roads — bad roads." 



"The most highly civilized nations of Europe have encouraged 

 most the construction of highways. In road-making we are dwarfs 

 in the nineteenth century; the Romans are looking over our heads. 

 Our towns and our cities are united by railways; but our farmers, 

 our yeomanry, traverse a cow path in dry weather and a canal in wet 

 weather." 



"It is more than 270 years since the experiment of American 

 farming was commenced by some of the most enlightened people of 

 Europe. With what results? During this long period the roads 

 have not improved; the average farm house is without architecture 

 or comfort and its environments without flowers or landscape; the 

 patchwork farm grimly watches a contest between the man and the 

 brier, with the chances in favor of the brier." 



"We are trying to harmonize a democracy of men with a mon- s/ 

 archy of business. We do indirectly what we cannot do directly. 

 We boast of equality before the law and charter corporations which 

 make all men unequal under the law." 



"If anyone thinks this is visionary or impractical, stop right 

 here. The most important department in war is the commissariat. 

 More armies have been outflanked by hunger than have been broken 

 by bayonet charges; more men are wounded in the stomach by mal- 

 nutrition and succumb to disease than are disabled by rifle or gatling. 

 Modem wars are largely battles of exchequer; peace or war are 

 determined by Wall Street, Threadneedle and the Bourse." 



THE NINTH CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION IN THE 

 SOUTH AT LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. MAY 4, 1906. 

 "Others advocate an improvement of rural conditions, better 



highways, better schools, free rural delivery, country telephones, 



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