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ADDRESS OF HONOEABLE A. 0. STANLEY ON 

 SUBJECT OF aOOD ROADS. 



Delivered at the Meeting of the Kentucky Good Roads 



Association 



Held at the 1915 Kentucky State Fair. 



Ladies and Grentlemen: 



I am deeply grateful to my good friend, Bob Mc- 

 Bryde, for his very kind reference to me. We should all 

 be deeply grateful to him for his years of tireless, patient 

 and unrequited toil in behalf of this great movement, 

 without expecting, without receiving any other recom- 

 pense than the gratitude of his countrymen and the wel- 

 fare of his country. With tongue and pen he has pre- 

 sented with marked abUity every reason which can be 

 assigned for this great work, and he has answered every 

 objection which the ignorant or penurious might ad- 

 vance. The people of Kentucky have yet to learn the 

 debt they owe this great journalist for a great work nobly 

 done. 



I am not here today to attempt to entertain you with 

 anything that approaches a formal address. I am not 

 here to make a speech ; if I am elected Q-overnor of Ken- 

 tucky, my time will not be given to saying things, but to 

 doing them. This is in its essence a matter of business 

 as well as sentiment, and to the fiscal side of this prob- 

 lem I shall, in the main, address my few remarks. 



You cannot build roads, however advisable it may 

 be, without money. To say that you are in favor of good 

 roads is like saying you are in favor of good health, or 

 good morals, good atmosphere or good looks or good 

 anything else. Anybody not a driveling fool favors good 

 roads just as he favors good health or good weather. We 

 all favor good roads, who have sense enough to travel 

 over them. The question is not whether it is desirable 

 to have better highways in Kentucky, but how we shall 

 obtain them. We all want them if we can afford them, 

 because we must buy and pay for these roads ourselves. 



