Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — State Aid For Good Roads. [ARTICLE]

State Aid For Good Roads.

Harper s Weekly. State aid to localities for any purpose is of course open to grave objections. It should be seldom vouchsafed, and never except in ex igent case; but, after years obagitation, good roads in New York have slim prospects save as the State assists them. Massachusetts has found that State aid and supervision are thf only feasible methods. New York will find Hie same, unless present signs are defective. Certainly if time be a factor in the problem if good roads are soon to be begun— State aid most be gived. While the press has been almost a unit in theii behalf, the highest economic authorities have approved them, and the splendid highways of the old World have been constantobject-lcssons tc the New, comparatively little has been accom-plished. There has been much agitation, with small results. The argument is concluded. Action should ensue; and under Ih.* circum stances—the need of projnpt, comprehensive. and intelligent action the proposition for State aid is entitled to consideration.