Good Roads

The plea for good roads has in a few iLttances been met by the statement tlia t etectric roads are destined to 1akc the place of the pmblic hlghwaye, and that the travel and the transpoitatiooi of the future wiU be apon slee' tracks rather than the paved rcad bed, however well constructed. The Commercial is a i'irm believer in Ilifi valué of the electric road. We beÜEve there will be the most remarkable development af this kind of enU-iprise in the next few years. We Nflleye that all small towns and viliagefe will be connected by eleetric icads with the larger ones. They ■wil' traverse every neighborhood in the more populous eections. They ■w il! distribute the population of the laiger cittes over vast territory, for many miles in every direction. While these are the probabilities of the iuti'ie, the time is far distant, ii it ovo rcomes, when the public highways aro abandoned, or, in f act, when they are less used than at present. Theie are thousands of needs that the electr,k- road will not and cannot supply. The necessities and the pleasures of sny citizen will at times require him to usc the public highways. The rePC-nl very general introduction of the ticj-cle ha created a greater need for ircoö roads than was ever feit befoie. Thousands of citizens are now the champions of this eort of improvemeni 1Lat scarcely gave the matter a Hiought before. However perfect the motocycle may be made, iiowever thoroughly it may be adapted to al'l kindfH of transportation upon the public highways, its general introductior- must in a large measure await th improvement of road beds. It can hardly be made to! run through mud axle deep, or to plunge over boultíers, into great ruts, or past other c tstructions. We believe the public at the present time more fully realizes the need of LcoO roads than it ever did beoie. believe that intelligent citizens of all classes demand of the "'sisla ture such measures as will insure vast improvement in our highways. -