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SUGGESTED ARGUMENTS.

The arguments which are suggested below are not intended to be
exhaustive, but merely to intimate certain broad issues involved in
the question.

FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE.

I. Congress has the right under the Constitution to aid States in
the building of good roads.

II. Precedents for Federal aid.

III. Federal aid will lighten farmers' burden.

IV. Good roads will improve general health conditions.

V. Good roads will revolutionize school system.

VI. Federal assistance increases patriotic zeal.

VII. The national government uses the roads, therefore it should
help to maintain them.

VIII. Federal aid will arouse interest among States in the building
of good roads.

IX. Aiding States in the construction of roads is a function of the
national government.

X. Good roads will foster development of waste land.

FOR THE NEGATIVE.

I. Federal aid—unconstitutional.

II. Necessitates greater income for national treasury, thereby increasing
tariff and customs tax.

III. Method not adequate, because States will not exert same effort.

IV. Not function of national government to assist in such measures.

V. States receive benefit of roads, therefore should support and
maintain same.

VI. States are able to build roads.

VII. An invasion of States' rights.

VIII. Federal Government not able to look after roads over the
country.

IX. Benefits derived from Federal assistance not adequate to expense.

X. Federal aid will tend to increase practice of log-rolling in Congress.