The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-01-21

the maCUer OF accepting bne river
was referred, said was the most beau
tiful and promising in the wealth of
its development in the State.
He said the people didn't want to
get their coal q thousand miles from
home when it was within their own
State, and he thought they were
right in giving their Representatives
to understand that the matter of the
speedy completion of these rivers was
of more Importance to them than
any thing else they could possibly
advocate for their interests. He be-
lieved the way to present the matter
properly to the Representatives is to-
show them that you are in earnest in
your request, by adopting a series Of
strong resolutions, setting forth the
purpose of the meeting and appoint
ing a committee to go before Con-
gress to urge the appropriations
asked for, and then to keep up the
agitation in every county and not re-
lax in the effort to accomplish the OBJ
iect sought. AS for himself he pledged
that he would gladly cooperate with
the wishes Of the meeting in the
matter.
Hon. Theodore F Hallam Of
Covington, was then called upon for
remarks. He spoke of the vast coal
and iron districts in Kentucky and
that all the State needed was the
united effort of the people TO induce
our Representative in Congress to
prosecute the matter of large appro.
priations for the development of the
State. He said the Federal Govern
ment, by accepting the river, assumed
contract to complete the locking
and damming within reasonable time
and not be prolonged forever. The
locking and damming of the, Kanawha
by the Federal Government has
brought immense wealth to West
Virginia. He understood that all
the appropriations the Government
had made to Kentucky for her rivers
was 81 900, 900, which was not drop
in the bucket in proportion to the
taxes paid by the State.
Attorney General Hendrick next
spoke and said. that he endorsed
fully what Col. Berry and Mr. Hallam
had said and that the large attend
ance and enthusiasm of the meeting
gave him heart to hope for the de-
velopment of these great interests at
an early day. He said he knew that
thirty years ago Frankfort and Win
chester paid from two to three cents
bushel more for Beattyville coal
than for Pittsburg and that unless
the waterways are developed, as the
present experience shows, the people
are at the mercy of the railways.
The cost of transportation as be-
tween water and rail, he said, was as
one to eight; that where it cost one
dollar by water it cost eight by rail.
While we have been apparently in
different to the wealth of our noun
tains, Wall street, New York, and the
Maine and Michigan lumber com
panies are awake to the value of that
part Of our State and are gradually
obtaining great tracts. He had been
to Washington often and had not
heard the voice of congressman
from Kentucky raised in behalf of
the river interests. He Thought they
were not deaf but were blind to the
real interests of the people and he
had great hope now that they could
be made to hear the call urging
them to united effort for what was
justly due them from the Federal
Government. He likened the State
to COW in winter at a fodder rack,
nibbling husks for her sustenance
while Others regularly came to milk
her. He said the Democratic party,
as Col. Berry had said, must realize
that the matter of internal appro-
priatiOns now is a fixed policy we
cannot change and must accept.
We do not accept it as pro-
lection but because the people
are the masters and the Government
the servant who has merely collected
the money for use to the highest adj
vantage of the peoples interests.
All over the United States. he said.