The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-02-21


nights lodging, which one of the oiIic,
boys gave him, in his pocket His pro
duction is worth reading, and it show.
that he was not only at one time in bet
ter circumstances than he is now, but
that he is man of education and practi
cal knowledge. Following is what he
wrote;
THE RAMBLER.
Floating around the country and ming
ling with the common people, a person
has excellent opportunities for studying
the people, their needs, and their wants,
and finding the true remedy for what
ever trouble there may be abroad in the
country.
prefer to use the term common PEG.
pie, for they form a great majority, they
are the power that is behind the progress
of the world and upon which all success
depends. If the common people are per-
mitted the full enjoyment of their la
bors, and are happy,the country must be
both happy and prosperous. Whatever
operates to burden and Cypress the COM
mon people will of necessity retard the
growth and advancement Of the country.
No country can be prosperous and hap
Ply, unless the people are so, and the
whole people can not be so as long as
Legislators make laws in the interest of a
favored few, and to the detriment OF the
many The interests OF the farmer and
the workingman mast be as carefully
guarded as those of the manufacturer
and the millionaire. Value or money,
is only the representative OF labor, there
must be labor performed before there can
be value to represent it, and any attempt
to make the representative above and
more important than the thing repre-
sented is calculated to disorganize the
system upon which the happiness and
prosperity of the people rest.
While this is true, it does not contain
all the truth, nor does it fully suggest
the remedy for the depressing times
through which the people of this country
are passing. In any country, more es-
pecially country where the people are
the acknowledge source OF all political
power, the cause for hard times or for
any trouble whatsoever that may come
upon the country, must, to a large ex-
tent, originate and be with the people.
One who mingles much with the people
will not be long in locating these causes,
and is surely better able TO suggest the
remedy than one who gets his data from
the theorizing OF others. An old philoso-
pher was once asked, is life worth living,
and replied, THAT depends upon the
man." There is much truth in the say
ing. Much more depends upon the in
dividual than people like to believe, for
human nature is prone to look elsewhere
for the cause of whatever ills come into
life, when nine times out OF ten the
trouble is in the individual. At all
events the only cause over which he has
a correcting power is in himself. Let
him remove the mote that is in his own
eye, and then he can see more clearly to
remove the beam that is in the other
fellows eye.
When the young man, getting big
ideas in his head, goes to the city to
work out his fame and fortune. he is too
much like the monkey. That is he
wants to do just what he sees other peo-
pie do, and is unwilling to accommodate
himself TO the circumstances in which
he finds himself thrown by nature. He
wants to keep up with the pace set by
the son OF the millionaire, and so squand
ers his hard earnings to initiate the fol-
lies OF the dude. He lives beyond what
he earns. exhausts his strength in trying
to breast the waters OF debt, and when
the day Of trouble comes, he is unable to
meet ii, and goes down before adversely.
This first mistake leaves an influence
that goes through life and dominates
future action. This first mistake advoid-
ed, the future would be safer Young
man stay upon the farm, home is the
safest place for young birds.
The tendency Of young men TO flock TO
the city Is one OF the first causes that
leads TO want, sorrow and suffering.
How great this tendency is may be clear
ly seen by a careful study Of the census
The bulk Of the increase In population