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equities, it seems to me that it would pay the people of the 

 older, richer, and smaller states, to encourage the building of 

 permanent roads by state aid. To a large extent they are 

 doing it. In the newer, poorer, and larger states, there is 

 more doubt about it. These undeveloped communities have 

 usually very serious local burdens of their own. 



Possibly the grouping of subjects in this chapter may seem 

 to some not altogether logical. Whether it be or not, the 

 chapter contains various matters which it seemed necessary to 

 include in such a volume as this, and to me it seemed bast to 

 present them as methods of economy in public affairs, to be 

 considered, largely, by farmers and others, in connection with 

 the functions of the tax-gatherer. 



