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The Gospel of Good Roads: A Letter to the American Farmer (Classic Reprint) Isaac B. Potter No preview available - 2017 |
The Gospel of Good Roads: A Letter to the American Farmer (Classic Reprint) Isaac B. Potter No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 51 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.
Page 51 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 6 - For, in truth, custom is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She, by little and little, slily and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority, but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.
Page 24 - A hundred years, to be sure, is a very little time for the duration of a national error ; and it is so far from being reasonable to look for its decay at so short a date, that it can hardly be expected, within such limits, to have displayed the full bloom of its imbecility.
Page 41 - ... condition. New sections are being developed from year to year that to a certain extent affect the prosperity of some of the older ones, and there is likely to be more or less shifting of trucking centers every few years, all upon advancing lines, however. New and better methods of culture, with the further invention of labor-saving machinery, must of necessity reduce the cost of production. Better transportation facilities will place the products of these farms in cities and towns more promptly,...
Page 55 - SOCIETIES. greater ducts of travel and transportation — the railroads of the country. "While our railway system has become the most perfect in the world, the common roads of the United States have been neglected and they are inferior to those of any other civilized country in the world.
Page 56 - Every individual in it would thereby find his comforts materially increased, and his interest greatly promoted. By the improvement of our roads, every branch of our agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing industry would be materially benefited. Every article brought to market would be diminished in price ; the number of horses would be so much reduced, that by these, and other retrenchments, the expence of FIVE MILLIONS would be annually saved to the public.
Page 31 - Government roads are made and kept in repair at the expense of the State, the money being voted by the legislative bodies of the Landtag.
Page 21 - France also proceeds upon the theory " that her roads are the property and care of all the people ; that they are a public necessity and one of the institutions of the government ; that the farmers alone should not bear the burden of making and repairing...
Page 2 - We should get to the end of many of our difficulties. The dirt roads of America are heavy drinkers. They lead a staggering and uncertain course from town to town ; smear themselves with thick mire ; for four months in the year are unfit for the company of respectable people, and less than eighteen months ago got themselves regularly Indicted by the grand jury.* The pictures of roads shown in this pamphlet are made from photographs. Like all truthful pictures, they are better than words, and, if they...