Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-22
Knob LICK.
We are having ideal weather.

Very little ore is being shipped
this week.
Sorghum making is going on at q
lively rate.
Capt. Pitiiian went to Mt. Ster-
ling Sunday.
]. NJ. Colliver bought of Richard
McClain a weanling mule for SIS.
Emmett Park and wife were Wis.,
iting at Miss Sis Barnes Sunday.
There have been several squirrels
killed the last week in the noun
tains.
Mrs. Bud Colliver and little
daughter visited Sid Warren's fam
lily Sunday.
Corn-cutting is progressing fast
err than will be safe il there are
some warm rains.
There is some talk of another
mining company purchasing some
ore lands near here.
The Polksville Sunday school is
progressing nicely. Over 40 pupils
attend. All seem to take an inter-
est in the work, which makes a
success in all undertakings.
Elder Edward French, of Lex
Ington, will preach at Polksville the
4th Sunday afternoon, Sept. Is.
All are kindly invited, for none
should miss the opportunity Of
hearing this earnest and gifted
young minister.
In conversation with prominent
Republican at Salt Lick few days,
since / advanced the idea that coin
redemption as advocated by the
Democrats in their platform an2
gold redemption as advocated by
the Republicans were false in the
DRY and contrary to the TEACHINGS
of Thomas jefferson or Abrab&Sn
Lincoln. Lincoln had trieS at
row the credit of few bank -
IL! to % per cent. to carry on l.
war. They refused to furnish tho
money. Lincoln wisely concluded
if few bankers credit was good
that of the whole people and the
bankers combined was better, and
had issued so million of legal
tender greenbaeks, full legal tenders
for all dues to the U. S.; then an
other issue of ten million, making
sixty million of dollars, that sto0d
equal with gold. When gold was
worth $2.s5 this same legal-tender
greenback was worth the same.
There was not an ounce Of gold be-
hind it, but something more tangi-
ble-every foot of land, every bush
ell Of grain, every head of stock
stood behind it. The money you
could not eat it, you could not wear
it, but it answered all the purposes
for which money was intended, for
until the exemption clause was put
on it was not good for duties on
imports nor interest on the public
debt. The passage ST the act put
ting in the exemption clause was
opposed by Thad Stephens and
others as op ming the doors for
bond issues and robbin9 the people
in an indirect way. The gentleman
argued this: that Thomas Jetfer-
son, Abraham Lincoln, George
Washington and others were too
ancient to qSote from. On the liza
of his arguments he goes back tn
the golden calf ef ~ tkr~ thirty
pieces of silver that betrayed our
Savior. But reasoning from his
standpoint that we are a progress
sive people and should lay down
the teachings of such mex as
quoted we would accept the argu-
ments in favor of the greenbacks,
as it is a money of the 18th century
and is more progressive money
than the old barbaric money of
5000 years ago. The teachings and
works of our forefathers taught
their posterity for their welfare
should never become old or odious.
Did our fathers accomplish moth
ing for which we should have a
manly pride? Were our fathers
fools or were they patriots and wise
men? Were they heroes or were
they only insurgents in rags? W.
their deeds worth commemor
or were they fit to be fcl
Have We no monumeDkss<se,
heroic past2 Were our little
la in all-huddled tog
along the Atlantic border SCI
thing fit to be revered for all tins.
as the nurseries of human liberty
or were they ungrateful provinces,
disloyal and spiteful? Were the
institutions which the Revolution
airy Fathers created on these shores
worthy to be transmitted to poster
ity or shall posterity now forget and
cast them off as outworn rags?