Good roads . from the cities, andfrom great estates which could not have been accumulated anddevised without the fostering care of the State a tax should be devoted to the two great purposes of freeschools and free roads. These are the two ways in which theState can best build up its citizens, especially those in thepoorer sections. Both expenditures return to the State com-pound interest. They make better citizens and better tax-payers. And so, in conclusion it seems to me from a comparison withwhat other States are doing, that the lines of sharpest attackfor the advocates of
Good roads . from the cities, andfrom great estates which could not have been accumulated anddevised without the fostering care of the State a tax should be devoted to the two great purposes of freeschools and free roads. These are the two ways in which theState can best build up its citizens, especially those in thepoorer sections. Both expenditures return to the State com-pound interest. They make better citizens and better tax-payers. And so, in conclusion it seems to me from a comparison withwhat other States are doing, that the lines of sharpest attackfor the advocates of road improvement in Indiana are an inheri-tance tax for State aid to county roads, and a highway commis-sion to administer it. In this way could the entire State,without adding to its present burdens, promote the building ofthe best roads where they are most needed, and thereby relievethe farmer in his depressed condition, stimulate agriculture andcreate a market for its manufacturers, merchants and THE CHAMPION DISTRIBUTING CART. THE American Road Machine Company, located at KennettSquare, Pa., widely known as builders of high class roadmaking machinery and tools, have designed and are nowoffering a special form of cart for hauling, dumping andspreading broken stone, and which they have styled the• Champion Distributing Cart. It is a great improvement over the old-fashioned, ordinarydumping cart so long employed in road building operations,possessing advantages that cannot fail to commend it to engi-neers, contractors, road, street and park commissioners andothers interested in good road and street work. By its use broken stone may be handled much more quicklyand at considerably less expense than has heretofore beenpossible — and in a more satisfactory manner. The dumping and spreading of broken stone is usually?attended with a cloud of fine dust which is blown into neighbor-ing residences and settles on furniture, resulting in considerableannoyance and damage;
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