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Country Roads

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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For 100 years or more newspapers, philosophers apd political economista have vainly tried to couvince the tillers of eoil that they, more than any other class of people, were directly, vitally aud pecuniarily iiiterested in making and rnaintaining country highways over wlrich heavy loads and light ones could be drawn without the expenditure of an unnecessary amount of costly strength. The farmers studied tax ra tes and either would not hear or would not heed any statistics whose bearing was less immediate, though not less obyious. The vast majority of rural roads continued to be stretches of dirt, made into dust by the sun, into mud by the rain and always enforcing the truth that the distance between a farm and a market depends more on the nature of the road counecting them than on the nnmber

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat