The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-03-16

Z we, OF nave hht9 Dtell itdNlnB you
| By degrees, hardly perceptible.
May | ask you to just stop and
/ ihink tor a moment, and see il all
this property and money has sud-
denly left you, as if blown away by
a hurricane. Or has 1t been going
little by little, year after year?
You know. Answer yourself the
question. The Republican party
would haYe you behave that the
Democrat party has mesmerised
you and deprived you of all this
money and property, since the
fourth of March last. Is it so or
did we haveit at the fourth of last
March. Is it not a fact beyond dis
Ipu,e that our fathers and grand
fathers were far better off as farm.
ers than We are? Any farmer that
can count as many summers as |,
can look back and see that the
farmers and laborers of this county
have been gradually going down,
down hui year by year until today
they stand at the door Of want and
distress.
The day was when the farmer
could console himself with having
a yearly supply in store. They
we're able to garne- a smoke.house
full of bacon, cribs of corn, bins of
wheat, coffee by the bag and cloth
by the bolt. Plenty of stock and a
stocking-leg full of money. No
debts, no, mortgages. Follow if
you please his course down the lane
OF time. Gaze upon his awful and
hopeless condition now. View
him es he walks in from his field OF
daily toil--a man full of years
bent in frame, haggard, foot-sore,
battling in step. He spends an
evening meditating upon the past !;
thinks OF the good old days OF
plenty and comfort. It's all gone
now. But where? To some it is
as easy to tell where the years have
gone.
call to my mind man after man
that fits the picture framed, and
hundreds Of your readers can so
picture their own cases and thst Of
their neighbors.
/ What has brought us 20 our pres
ent condition has been the 49th
PROBLEM Of Euclid. / hesitate, but
must tell some Of these good old
christian friends of mine that they
have been warming and nourishing
in their own bosoms the serpent
that has administered the deadly
virus through the past years Of
restlessness we have schemed,
planned, plotted, resoluted and or.
gauized various societies all Of
: which have proven futile to the end
: desired. AT last with adefiant steI
. we Numbered against the door of
: the merchant. He started stores
believing that the merchant was re-
spohsible for our troubles. Sold
goods on q 1913 basis. Still no re.
lief, but bad matters growing worse
| ali the while. Our new departure
: proved a failure, except that the
merchant is the "cats paw at the
, chestnut roasting But my broth.
err in distress, let me tell you that
when VS. knocked at the door of the
merchant we aimed at the right
: place but awoke the wrong man
SIC is notresponsible. The mcrch
ant does not make the price Of Il,
goods-on his shelf, much less tn.
price he pays us for our wheat, pork
; and farm produce.
There is yet a great, higher caust
for our suffering and distress. 0ui
property, money, farms and in
many instances our all, have been
, renched olt Of our hands by vi,
and mali eious laws enn,ie hv Ger.
rupt men in Office, that they mign,
: be kept in Office through the vii.
famous plan OF boarding the wealth
J Of the country in the hands Of those
who would contribute aid TO theil
reelection.
b If Satan had assembled the
famous councils OF Pandemonium
where all the municipalities anC
: powers of hell meet in convention
and dispatched TO earth a demon
best qualified 10 retard the prJgrssl
= Of the ycomanry and wage Garner
to blight the hopes Of our youthful
: b!osd, and swell the population o
the distressed and starving, h
/, could not have sent a more polen
/. agent than the leaders Of The lall
Republican pnrly, Their success