Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 27 February 1880 — Page 2

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Tirarrfi is in the Daily News In-day something about roads by "a wort abler man," on the road question at least, than theeditor of the paper, aud we ask for it a careful perusal. It may be well to re mark that the paper'was written 'several years ago. Siuee then. Ins county has been acting »on the suggestions of Mr Kennedy, with the most satisfactory re stilts. If Vigo qoiiniy lpuV such a system of gravel ..road# throughout the entire county, it would 1m» worth a* much to the county and the cit\* an an)' three »f our railroads. The court house ought to be crowded to-morrow by our business men, as well as farmers, and the free gravel road system inaugurated with a determination to push the improvement to the utmost limit. The county cutmot have too many good road*.

HENBY WAD6W0BTH L0N0FELL0W To day is the TM anniversary of the birth of Hewy WadswoHh Longfellow, who was born «t Port I a ml, Maine, February 27, 187. At the age of 14, he entered Iiowdoiu College, Brunawick, and graduuted there with high honors in 1825. For a short time he studied law in his father'# office .but a professorship of modern languages having been formed in the Bowdoin College, and olfered him, he accepted it, and proceeded to Europe to qualify himself for the discharge of his new duties. He returned to America in 1829. and entered upon his professional work. His lirstsubstantive work. "Outre Mer," appeared iti 1H85 and in the same, year he was appointed to the chair of Modern Languages and Literature at Harvard IJniversity. He again spent a year in Europe, and made himself Acquainted with the Danish and other northern liter atures—an acquaintance winch he has turned to noble account. In 1839, he published "Hyperion," a prose romance, ami "The Voices of the Night "Ballads and other Poems, in 1841 "Poems on Slavery," in 1842 "The Spanish Student," in 1848 his "Poets and Poetry of Europe." in 1845: "Belfry of Bruges." and other poems, 1JH6 "Evangeline," in 1847 "Kavanagh," in 1849 "The, Seaside and the Fires'de," in 1850 "The Golden Legend* In 18ol "Hiawatha." in 1855 "Miles Standish," in 1858 "The Wayside Inn," in 1868 the "Hanging of the Crane," in 1877. and others wiribo that date.

Of all ohr Ainerican poets. Mr Longfellow i« the most National. If Ave have not a National epic, "Evangeline" or "Hiawatha" is the nearest, approach to it. Some of his slioter lyrtts are almost perfect in idea mid expression, and are to be found in nearly every school book. His poetry may be somewhat deficient in force, but it is full of picture&pienesa and1 a certain quaintness OJf fancy, is one of its most delightful attributes.

In honor of Mr Longfellow, many schools throughout the country to-day celebrate the anniversary of his birth, among them the High School of this city. A program of the exercises to be given this afternoon at S, was published in yesterday's XAivr Nkw«. iu.iiu-. .. limit- '-i'"

POLITICAL DEFAMATION.

Off® of the most demoralizing and degrading of all the practices growing out of our system of popular flections is the abuse and defamation of persons whose uames are mentioned a« probable candidates before nominating conventions Nothing seems too vile to be Said about the man who has the temerity to put hint' self forward or to be put forward by his friends as a candidate for p*iy nomination. No story is too improbable to find ready believers in the ranks of his party. And the very men who may be called upon within a few weeks, or months at most, to vote for such an one, perhaps for the highest office in the gift of the people, are hot ashamed of peddling and even inventing stories about him, which, if 'they were true, should bring him to the bar of a criminal court and If they are false, should bring their utterer there. The politician who comes before his fellow partisans for their suffrages may rest wvll assured that, be. UslMas pure a& snow and as chaste as the icicle." be shall not escape calumny.

It can hardly be expected that when the President of the United States, or the Governchr of a great State, with all the patronage belonging to either, is directly in issue between two great political parti^ there will not he more or less heat. Htvory one is not discreet* m4 i» the mid die of a canvas* expressions will be used, jmd charges will be made and insinuations

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Ae barges qpd hisinuet^p have at least tluU thejprill inot to thejwill

successful, and, what is more important, that a "question of principle divides the two parties, and will continue to divide: them, who ever wins the contest at the -poll*

Defamation of political leaders, ou|l& not to he excused. It is noxious in evei$rrespect. It tends to disgust the people with political criticism. The recklessness of criticism tends to sap faith in what is

as well as partisan opponents. Neither the Republican or the Democratic party is perfect—far from it. The leaders of neither party are perfect—faV from it.' The criticism that would do good, because moderate and sensible, is ignored in loud and foul mouthed slander, which is a positive evil. Take the case of Grant—^ the one American citizen in whose honor, as Col Nelson expressed it the other evening, "all Europe uncovered." He has leen abused as no mortal man deserved to be abused. He and his friends, nnd even his famil3\ have been defamed. lias This de-

But what ever palliation (rati be offered for bit'er criticism of men in public officii

there is nothing at all to be said in favor of low, personal abuse within party lines before the meeting of the nominating conventions. It can do 110 good, and is a positive evil. If it defeats its victim, its authors may claim that their end is accomplished. If he is successful notwithstanding them, it is a complete failure as far as its authors :ire concerned, though it, has given their party opponents a weapon in the canvass which they will be sure to use, and per-, haps left in the public mind a suspicion that a most unworthy man is seeking their suffrages.

The latest target for mud-throwing and defamation seems to be Secretary Sher-1 man. There is nothing to preveut a cfflm and dispassionate estimate of Mr Sher-, man's claims on the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Whether he is or is not. successful, the present assaults made upon him inside his own party can only result in degrading the Republican party in the eyes of the country—for present abuse cannot wipe out the fact that John Sherman has been a Republican leader for a quarter of a century. If he is unwovthy, as his enemies sr.y he is, how comes it that they were so slow in discovering it, and so remiss in concealing from the country how dangerotts the man was?

What'* In a Nunc?

The Supreme Court of Indiana decides that a legal name of a person consists of one christian name and a surname. Any one may have as many middle names or initials as are given to him or as he chooses to take. They do not affect his legal name, and may be inserted or not in a deed or contract without affecting its validity. Nor does a mistake in the middle initial of A name in a deed in My way affect its validity.

Setter A. ».tluui «. Cii! Attfc* Lwtatt*.

Thevs are many Republicans in Indiana who ani?dpate a Scriptural victory this year, and tase their claims on the pmsaage.

For Streii'ht is the gate »»d narrow is the wav His initials also ate a source of comfort, A. -48no domini.

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said on Mich subjects, whether it le j,pen(|jtinire ^as investment ever fact well or il! founded. There is

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tionably much to be remedied in our po-s

litical methods.-There is plenty of room dr'Hon1*:i: fcenm^AFl Hold keelfii for legitimate criticism of public officers in Montgomery eonntT. There i®. no subject in which the people of Montgomery county should feel more earnestly interested than that of good roads. Crawfordsville is surrounded ny a vast body oTTertp^.'proflji^ve on an average?])efha"ps, As Any sliSilar area of land on the gloi»^. Much of it is cove^ ed with fine timber, and nearly all of it is well watered. It js capable .of the most abundant quantities( of grsun stock, and other farm products./ The one need of this agricultural region, to make it pour out wealth, like water, is good roads, always the forerunners of a high state of cultivation, successful farming, and wealth}- communities.

famatiou done any good even to his polit- market, at any season of the year, twice. ical opponents? We should -mv not. He as much at a load as you now do, you ta ,lnv stninwr than ever in the ilTeC-

is to da) stronger than «.v..r in tnc you would immediately bum up your old tions of the people of the Nation. 1ins Vagons, invest large sums in the new slang whanging does not pay. It produces wagon, and save thousands of. dollars a reaction in favor ff its victim. I thereby. But, in the absence

or of persons actually seeking public ofiicej strated by experiments that a team can draw four times as much 011 a smooth and I well graded road as it can where the grade is oiie foot in .10 or 828 feet to the milo:

WhyXot? V. v. lndisnapollft News,

The unmitigated demagogues who make up the House committee on foreign affairs will report favorably the bill for an appropriation for the relief of the suffering Irish, raising the original sum of $ 100,Ow to $800,000. This is in violation of all sense and soundness in legislation and is morally wrong. There are a hundred thousand famine stricken people in Silesia. Why shall cot the American Congress dispose of the money gathered from taxes in reeding them as well as the Irish? Why shall it not appropriate money to take care of the negroes who have lately come to this State, who, if we may believe Senator Voorhecs. are also starving? That a committee should be found to favorably report, this measure is not in the line of promise that the House will refuse to pass it. If it does the members jvho vote for it should be marked for speedy retirement to private life.

"Att*r that sort at a Wflliatnuport Republican. Hon P. S. Kennedy, of Crawfordstilie, will be a candidate in our next Republican Congressional nominating convention. While cach county in this district, except Warren, will have a candidate for the position, it is no disparagement to any to say that Mr Kennedy is a good man, and, if nominated, would make a strong race, give tone and strength to our ticket,prove an earnest and active worker through the campaign and poll as many votes on the majority side for the Republicans as any man now mentioned. Mr. Kennedy has all his life been a consistent, reliable, outspoken, honest Republican, and Warren county Republicans are after tliat sort of a man as the Congressional standard bearer for the Eighth district.

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would spend as much more the coming season. OUT people are well paused with the roads that have 1een made, and even the' 'grnmbleii' now concede that the ex-

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wagon, the same result may be accomplished with the wagons you now have by making good roads". It has "beeu demon-

We have no road leading into Crawfordsville to-day that has not steeper,grades than this iu many places and hence you see you are spending a great deal of time and money coming to town with small loads wli.en you migl^t h^ul^rjge one# i£ you would first make goOa roads. Let me* put a case to illustrate the value of a good road to a fanner some distance in the /Cou try Suppose his farm Is eight miles from town and lie has 1,000 bushels of wheat to deliver at the railroad depOt. To haul it on an ordinary road, such aa the very best wo now h&v&r- aud at the most favorable season of the year, would require the services of a man, two horses and a wagon for 85 days, counting one load a day a fid 40 lmshels to the lond.'The wagon, team and driveiraire worth say $8 per day, amounting, in all, to $75 for neilivering the 1,000 bushels of wheat, or 7J^ cents per bushel.

Now, vou see, by having a good road Upon which he eouW haul eighty bushels at a load, he could save $87.50 from one. crop of 1,000 bushels of wheat. In other words, a good road would make his wheat worth 7% cents moire per bushel. How much he would save besides, in the wear and tear of wagons, harness and horses is not so easily calculated, but it1 would be^ immense. And then the teal comfort of coming to towuia a good humor, instead of having to whip,' cut and slash the hordes anu wony yottt'self nearly".to.death plunging throiign inire and up and down hills, would be worth a gooa deal to a man who feels good when he is happy. There are some, you know, who never feel good except when they are in a fret. And this is not all. With good roads the farmer's work does nojt crowd him. Where he has bad roa^HeiSi$E ilo mucli ^auling^ in good weather'^hen he could be more profitably employed in plowing his ground and repairing his farm." If he had good roads, so he might do his hauling in bad weather, and in Winter, he could devote the whole o£Jbd& timeJjx~good weather to his crops, save muclf time that he is now compeUed to be idle, andwt^u^ make his farm far more productive,

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And again, good roads serve as a stimulant. to good cultivation. Facilities always prompt exertion. Tools and machinery produce the chief difference between the savage and *6ivilteed by stimulating exertions and utilizing iorces. A gooa road will gather a stream of produce, even from a poor country, as naturally as a ^channel gathers a stream of water froiri the bordering hiils. And why Because the farmer, seeing a. good way to get produce to market at any aeason of the year, naturally redoubles his efforts to make his lands productive-and have an abundant crop. And abundance Of produce on a good road makes an abundance of money in the country through which! the road runs. Go to an old. seUled country and yow will find the wcu improved farms and the stately mansions oli the good roads.

And it is not, as the man once supposed, in regard to thr ?Ififcs afidTTvers. "It was curious, he said that tfterivers always iun" ijy large cities.- He did not seem to comprehend the fact that it was the rivers that made the cities.. It is not the fine farms and stately mansions that make the rOads, but tbe roadsthat make the fine forms and good house*.

I have merely suggested here a theme for study and investigation. I have not the tjm&jQelaborate it. Each one of you may amplify the calculation at his leisure and see how mucin more clea» profit an ordinary farmer might have at the end of each year tiy living on a good road, and being able to utilise all of his time and curtail expenses. The two greatest drawbacks to-day to successful farm ing ate the expenses Of getting produce to the consumer And the loss of time from bad weather, and good roads would have a great tendency to remedy both these troubles.

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the man who uvedsolong In a leaky housq. When asked why he did not repair the" roof he said irdftl not teak In dry weather, And when it ra&ed he couldh't gooutio repair it without getting wet! We s«ong oc our roads tolerably well in Summer i^me, and hence we quit talking about making andiiepafring roada as soon as the dry weather sets in. Then, when Winter comes and tke roads become impassable, it is beyond our power to do anything /or thren£

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gTaveijroati^aws^oujr coman^mp^s the country the people were all poor, pop* spent J$54000In the eohstraciiork ck fke illation was sparse^ and there, ao sur- 4a gravel mkb. andif i« were ttot (or the, & XiSk™ Tl'i limitation on their power to i.^pe bonds, pJan ^f jjnyftig the neisihhOrs all meet on —a givea daj? to repair*the bad pfaccsinMie roads was well enough under such ciccuiu^sof bonds. rtaakcr (lie «tdrt stances, and perhaps the l»est that could be done. reasonably try to dress lumself ui the clofli^li#S^»Hrh«fhe^tflaf

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an old and thickly settled* county! yielding thousands of dollars worth of suiplus grain annually, to ftUemptfto fol.-, low the ways of the pioneer Settlers'in re-s eard to public mads: The rude cabins have nearly all dissippdared And neat cot-1' tages and stately mansions!Miave taken their places. The wild woods and dense undergrowth have gone, and finely cultivated farms, with great fields of 'waving grain and pastures of lowing herds, have taken their places. With all these great

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yielding make some chaiigc in our common roads, ^ur jjjgthrnis of kebping them'in

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pair? Our present situation seems to nuu to demand that we sJiouJd have.-,wide, level, smooth roads, and that every-, body be allowed to travel aiid haul on them free of "toll. But some one will cry out. "i'You are proposing to increase our taxes, again, are you?" No, sir we are proposing to-lessen your taxes. I havejdready"sjiowij that a farmer eighfTiiilesln llie country is taxed $87.50 to"geV'-X§U^l»uM^^r^ ^hcat to market, that"lie"might save with a good road is taxed for repairs to wagons* repairs to his harness, ami most bu,*dl'nsome of all, by being compelled to be idle in muddy times, when he might be profitably employed in hauling his produce to market. The heaviest, tax that was ever imposed on a farmer yet .is a bad road to market and we are simply proposing some, plan by/which this burden May be lifted ^ropi.his^ahpuldefs, And the bad road is not a bprdeaon j^ue faryner alone, but it is quite as jyfre'at 9 inirdt'iron those who buy his product All- pbare tli&{IdfWt to sonic extent. Our interests-sare sd interwoven that we all feel alike,thtijbad effects./of,r

•bad public policy, an,d the good effects^, aJ wise one. We want a jpla'n for building good roads that will, as nearl^fisiSbssible,' accommodate all the people of hoffWnmty. Let us suppose, |or illustration, that.^ make four main road^tlirough thecouhivV( two from corneV t'O cosher, and two others running nbrth and SWuth «'Cafefc and west,' through the centers This/would requ^e about 110 miles of road. TI^qp .suppos^, we construct bmnclies to interact, the diagonal roads about half way between Crawfordsville and the county fine.'' This would require about 50'miles more nmk-', ing in all 160 miles of road. With tliis system of road? there would not be a farm in the county more tluin two and a half miles from a gravel-road, and, if we count a mile on each side of this amount of road, we shall have 820 square miles lying immediately on the road, or nearly throefourths of all the land in the county.

But how much will 160 miles of road cost, and how can we get it made? To make it as it should-be., made, would cost $2,000 per mile, or $320,000 in the aggregate. This looks like a big sum, but thefts woild be none of it lost. We paid a larger sum than this during the war, in a single year, not as an investment for, profit, but to free the county from the draft. This war tax was paid without, any serious inconvenience, and I doubt if there is a man' in the county toTdayany worse off than he would have been il this tax had not been collected. And this, as I have said,.was a tax collected t6 be consumed bv ar. The tax to construct foads would be a tax-to improve tJUe county, render farms more productive, -and facilitate^ intercourse among tne people. In fact. It is a misnomer to eall ita taxi It is ltd morb a tax than the money you pay for manure, for \vagons, mowers, reapeis and plows. It is only so much money paid for a machine, as it were, to facilitate the transportation of produee.'1'^^

Let me make another calculated: -We have in Montgomery' county over 822,000 acres of land. A little less, than a dollar to the acre would construct all Of the 160 thlles of road. Would not 160 miles Of road, distributed throughout the county as I have proposed, incrcaso the vuiuo of your land more than one dollar 011, the acre. Will any one dispute that it wdujd increase it $5 an acre, on an average? Surely not? There is not a fann in the/ county to-day. oa a gotxt ©ravel rpatl that' not valued $5 per acre^higher than ij would be Without the 'roarf The idea that I would impression your mihdWL't that we lose nothing by taxing ourselves to construct improvement?.,,, Does ^he fafme'r regard it as. burdensome, taxation when he spends'raWttey to build fenced, haj-ns, dwellings, etc? "Not at all because he knows it is adding so much to Uie^aU/ ue of his farm, andputting mpney where It will not be lost. Tou are doing ,the sanie thing precisely when yott spertH ymif money to build a good road from your farm to your market. „r

The plan of making good roads, abolishing the toll gate, and keeping the roads in repair under the contract ^ysitem, sUch Ws I proposed in the Legislature at the last sesslofc. in not altogether an ejmeriment. Ireland, though lagging behind in almost everythingelse, adopted the plan Jong ago, andithasbeen demonstrated' thete by actual experience that the f^teni gives better roads than the old plan, and at much less eofft to the people. The roads there are all built on life McAdarri plan of broken stones, tthd then lei out hi neetiom to the lowest bidder to l)e kept in order, the contractor forfeiting his pay for the year if he suffers htraection to get ont of repair. Under this pl«i» the roal« are kept smooth and level all tbe year round for the contractor soon learns that there fs nothhig elfle Ift the* world Id which the old adage that "a stitch in time saves nine" applieaao aptlywith and with so much, 'AR to road repairing. His interest compels him to be on ilhe look out constantly for eve#y was/jj rut. arid "chUck hoJe,- He learns at once that a chuck hole or rut may be filled to-day1 with a above! full of gv^el, that netl *eekf'a cart load may oe reguitedi*^51

Now, my friends, all W have* to do to get some new system of. roads and road

jto determine we will have it. |of such a county as ours can any kind of a load if they [together. Aud let me say, in Uhat no people in the county

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drawn frpm noighborour. c\ly4 The undershot a bur nf .. r~ exfN?n6hcel"tT»e*" least

bhange in his fiannciaif condition On ac count of it. We could sell $300,000 worth aacia, and pay off the bonds in ten years without any appreciable increase of, taxation. It isnj true \w4wwto levy such tax. but in alfc probability wo will have in less tliaii a Year from tliis time.-Let us be prepared to at ail 'our it wlren we ivt if. selves of

Free Pikes. Madison Star.

As our countnr r«»ads now are'ff takes/A team of four horses hitclied to a* spring wagon to haul a basket of cg^jsto market. Tlie condition of our roads is a disgracOHi to tbr--riTTli*ntio^T-nf-th^• asr^~"NotblTTir interests the farmer §jul city merehant .more than good turnpike roads, .lust im agine eveiy road out of our city nicely» piked for a distance of 25 miles each, and as smooth and linn ns a barn lloor. and think of the advantage it would be. Some way should be devised by which such roads could be built and kept up by taxation and made free of toll. As now it costs some of our farmers about much jn toll to come to town over our ujisoraable mud roads as it would to travel that far on a railroad.

The Lawrenceburg Register, one of tin/ best papers in the State, says truly there is, nothing of more importance to the prosperitv of a county tlran good wads. Aiidf' nothing, so l!ir as dollars and cents are ... concerned, that will advaiue the interest of the fanner, more than these means oil niaching a market for their productions. *t It is nOt so-much the soil that a farmer,t\l needs as the means of'readily getting to market the substance produced by the etiW/ tivation of that soil. It matters but little if a mau owns a farm that produces corn at, the rate of 1(M) bushels to the acre, or wheat 00 bushels, if he is unable to FV/ his crops to a market.

Land within a few miles of Cincinnati rents for hundreds of dollars per acre noty^ ''cause the boil is any better than thoucf ricres in some portions of the in of the Slate that could not be rented at a be a us he ha a ready nmnkeUnt. their doors, aud the cost .of tTanspostiytirtvIs .so small, and the ,1,, 'facilit ies so greaf W^eVtinj their produce •Into the mai-lvet wiien it suits them to sell. Jt is these advantages that every (anner,,

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t6^6fi(lroads, or make the good roads to his farm.—The first is impossible, the sec.-.» oiid possible. ^Waj,, \vill our farmers doff id the country tVJ6 answer: tax yoursqlvcs and build the roads, ami inake tlleW 'frfcC roads. Thej&pf and/ can' Tilj /[jfi^jiged to optii^i«. JairJy *ii tli» tsax-payer/iu the proportion to,the advani-^ ages he lv^elVcK ^nd upon a basis just to afl. Township enterprise will be. most feasible, and in fh^rjd will giye live best// satisfaction. We, suggest that the farmersof each township meet together and take-some^pfinttenr^orr^Tmktng'TO^TfB'— having good, substantial frdL pik* roads built tliroughout the entire^country.

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Citizens 'who feel an interest in the development of trade and improvement of the facilities of inter-communication, should attend the meeting at the court house next Saturday afternoon, called for the purpose of considering the best meaSs-' ?f ure§ .oij?tQyidiugjtor graxtsLioads^- The meeting will be addressed by several gentlemen who are (junllfled 10 inform the audience on the subject A paper upon gravel roads and consiruction thereof, writ-1 ten by Hon P. H. Kennedy, of Crawford^ vijle, will be read on tile occasion. Mr K.' hois made the subjtadi, a study, and while ill the Legislature several years ago was active in the passage of the existing biws o» tlic BubjccL.. .U iwkx tbcliiMoiUgoxua^— county and others liaye,bui|t gravel roads in various directions! 'awl' are now well provided therewith.

Vigo county ought to lose 110 time in following the good example. Now while public interestis active, the subject on^ht to be dismissed and the niovement fairly^cstarted.

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