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THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDPORD, OWKGOX. MONDAY. OCTOBKR 11. 1W0.
Medford Daily Tribune
' Official Paper of the City of Medford.
- Published every evening except Sunday.
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George Putnam, Editor and Manager,
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THE EDUCATIOX UVTHE MOSSBACK.
To promote the good roads movement in the southwest,
President B. F. Yoakum of the Rock Island and Frisco
railroad system invited a number of the heads of farm
ers' unions in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
and Arkansas to he his guests on an automobile tour over
the improved highways of New Jersey, New York, Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connect
icut, and in order that they could intelligently understand
what they saw he had the construction work explained to
them by the highway officials of the states they visited.
The tour, which lasted nearly two weeks, was concluded
on Friday in New York city, and if the. farmers were
pleased, Mr. Yoakimi was equally delighted with the .work
he had inaugurated, which he believes will not only help
the fanners, but enormously increase the productive pow
er of the states and incidentally the revenues of the lines
he represents.
The general opinion of the visitors is summed up by one
of their number as follows:
"The various states should have supervision of the
good roads work, in order to secure uniformity of con
struction and continuity of service. The time must soon
come when the federal government will make appropria
tions for interstate construction ; for certainly the public
highways of our country are far more useful and fully as
important as the waterways for which millions of dollars
are appropriated by congress each year. Economy in han
dling of products means as much to farmers as to any other
business interest."
The Southern Pacific could follow Mr. Yoakum's plan
with advantage to itself and to Oregon. Upon the devel
opment of the country depends its volume of business, and
upon good roads largely depend this development. Good
roads are almost unknown in Oregon and the opposition
to them and to legislation for them comes from mossbacks
who never saw them, know nothing of them and rarely if
ever get outside the, state to see what is doing in the rest
of the world.
Mossbackism is nothing more nor less than concen
trated narrowness, provincialism caused by isolation
the ultra-conservatism of ignorance. Give a mossback a
trip around the world, the scales' are brushed from his
eyes, and he is no longer a mossback. Show the farmer
of Oregon the fine roads of other statesand the" diminished
cost of getting his product to market as well as the increas
ed value of his farm on account of its accessibility, and he
will no longer oppose good roads.
In no way could the .Southern Pacific develop Oregon
faster than by giving excursions from the Willamette' val
ley to the more progressive sections of the country. The
excursions would teach the opposers of progress the. first
essentials of 'development, insure good highways and ul
timately increase traffic for the railroad many times more
than enough to justify the cost. ,
Of course all the defects that afflict the mossback could
not be thus cured. Leopards cannot change their spots or
swine get away from the trough. The Portland pig aifd
the Salem hog would still retain their porcine proclivities,
and the Portland Orcgonian still yelp its reactionary snarl
and back-bite the heels of progress; but the education of
the mossback by means of travel would result in such an
era of development that the members of the ancient and
honorable pork family would be in a minority, growing
beautifullv less each vear.
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JOHN 8. ORTH, Cashier. W. B. JACKSON, Anit't Cashier.
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