wagons, automobiles, electro mobiles, locomobiles, and the entire class
of vehicles equipped with rubber tires, has aroused a widespread
interest, which is prophetic of great results. Acting as a strong
reinforcement to this educational work, the co-operative farm, with the
advantage of its village organization, representing in the public mind,
such an attractive combination of agricultural, industrial and social
life; will by the force of example, give an additional impetus to the
systematic construction of broad, permanent highways; that shall prove a
source of pride, to the community through which they pass; roads, that
shall last for centuries.

"Reacting favorably, in broadening the mission of the co-operative
farm-village, with its promise of permanent homes, and employment for
the unemployed, and the homeless; the continuous construction of these
free avenues of travel and transportation, will soon affect the status
of all rural populations, by vastly increasing their wealth and power.
For them, the vexed problem of transportation, will be solved. They will
discover by actual experience, that these wide, durable wagon roads,
will connect them with distant centers of traffic, and serve them better
and more honestly, than steam railroads; that in cost of construction
and repair, they are much cheaper; that when constructed, they belong to
the people as absolutely, free highways; that no greedy corporation, can
control them; that no threatening, irritating, lawless force, of
Pinkerton's armed thugs, is required to protect them; and finally, that
they offer every inducement to unfettered genius, to invent and to
freely exploit, better and cheaper vehicles.

"As one grand result of this combined educational work, rural life will
become exceedingly desirable and charming. The great city, will lose its
attractive force. The tide of migration, will flow back to the pure air,
invigorating sunshine, blue sky, and the verdure-clad hills of the
country. In a general way, we may predict, that a few years hence,
everywhere throughout this broad land, we shall find picturesque,
prosperous, well populated villages. As the minor centers of education,
art-culture, refinement, amusement, progressive race-culture, scientific
agriculture, esthetic, social and co-operative life; they will be
embroidered, like a vast net-work of shining pearls, on a perfect system
of broad, smooth, highways. In their construction, ornamentation and
ma