ip of a swift, roomy, durable, road machine,
capable of making from twenty to thirty-five miles an hour, will be
within the means of every family. In this private car, the family, or a
select party, could easily and leisurely accomplish a five thousand mile
tour in twenty days. Along the whole distance, farm villages, from
fifteen to twenty minutes apart, would offer the travelers, machine
supplies, repairs, and excellent hotel accommodations, for an expense
not in excess of the same at home. Than this, no traveling excursion
could be more delightful! For pure enjoyment, a select party of
nineteenth century millionaires, could not equal it.

"The enjoyment of such delightful opportunities for even a single
decade, would make the rank and file of the republic thoroughly
acquainted, with the soil, scenery, forests, lakes and rivers; the
mining and manufacturing possibilities; the peculiar characteristics of
the people, their local ambitions, political wants and future demands,
of every state and county in the union.

"Thus equipped with this important knowledge, each voter, both men and
women alike, would be prepared at any time to vote intelligently and
wisely, on every question affecting the welfare of the republic as a
whole, or in part. Elected to Congress, these voters would appear as the
ablest, most patriotic, most just, and most incorruptible body of
law-makers ever known. Understanding the equities of righteous dealing
between themselves as fellow citizens, they would be prepared to decide
correctly on all questions of an international character, which might
affect the interests of the world at large. This would be a
demonstration of the rule, as to the formation of a true republic. To
make the entire political fabric both enduring and progressive, the
units or voters, must be well born and rightly trained. Of this
training, travel is an essential part, which should not, which must not
be overlooked.

"As affecting their social and intellectual progress, these years of
travel would improve all classes of agricultural and industrial people,
to a still higher degree than the one achieved in political expression.
A general interest would be aroused in questions of political economy,
race culture, psychology, and physiology; geology, geography and
history, botany, chemistry, and mineralogy; which later, would lead to
close reading and hard study in the whole domain of scientific research,
as the one sure method of