The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-06-24
FRANKFORT, KY. SATURDAY, JUNE a. 1899

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member, AM whispering in you
private and not your public ear, f0
we have to be mighty careful nova
days, you know, us to what we SLY
in public, for fear of being in con
tempt Of court. IT, during the pas
few weeks, | had given utterance (,
all the stilphuric phraseology that
suggested itself to my mind on the
subject of courts Of justice, COmmOn
wealths Attorneys, &c., in connection
with the recent conspiracy cases up
my way, / would now he addressing
you by proxy from hot cell i'm the
Franklin county Jail. No doubt this
will he my last appearance here or
elsewhere as y member of this Assoc
citation, for fear my days of freedom
are numbered, and that sooner or
later the punishment which follows
crime will have been melted out to
me. The truth is, / can't just quite
understand why l am allowed to he
at large to-day, yet feel grateful for
this temporary resp te from peering
through JUL bars and eating Jail
grub. My crime, indeed, must be a
grievOus one. Indictments have
come so thick and fast | have been
unable to keep tally. While we have
mighty clever sheriff up in my
county, can't bear to face him.
Every time zee him coming down
the street L seem to he paralyzed
with fear, and my legs ignomin-
iously fail to respond to desire to
take to my heels. One look from
him in my direction strikes terror to
my very being, and 1 say to myself:
tits all up with me now. Pm a
'gOner' this time sure"
/ attribute my freedom to-day to
the timely aid of good friend and
minister of the Christian Church up
in my town, who signed my bond
and vouched for my future behavior
and appearance i'm court whenever
demanded. ! haven't the heart to
leave this friend with the bag to
hold, or 1 would strap my office
desk ON my back, jump my bond,
and strike out to Arkan sas, where /
am told the PEI pie are tumhling over
each other to get any kind of policies
at any price. If l could just get over
into Arkansas for few weeks, with
the editor of the "Piney Woods
Clarion" as running mate, and
armed with supply Of beautifully
engraved policies of the Windmill
Insurance Co." l could afford to light
my cigars with ten dollar treasury
notes. / would make Webb McNall,
of Kansas. and his road agents, with
all their fat pickings from the COM
panies' granaries, green eyed with
envy, and they would be remem-
bered hereafter as mere pigmies as
professional "hOld-ups." The Ar
kansans want cheap insurance. They
should have it, and with my "Wind-
mill Insurance Co." / could give it |
to them, and thus fill the vacuum in /
that State left by the withdrawal of ,
the OCTOPUS" But L can't go Just |
now. l am tied hand and foot to my
native soil, and liable at any time to |
havea draft made on me by the
sheriff of franklin county to report
'Or, duty on the chain gang. Just as
soon as the aforesaid OCTOPUS" is
successfully driven from Kentucky,
will operate my company in this
State. l can issue my policies from
he Franklin county Jail, and per-
laps be able to meet the demands of
he people, il my fellow prisoners
will lend ii helping hand in signing
he policies and gathering in the
hekels. Which ever way the cat
jumps "there's millions in it" for
myself.
Time was when it was not cOnsid-
red crime, political or otherwise,
DR. two or more men to associate
themselves together, uniting their
apital with their energies and abil-
lies, and organize an insurance
Ompany, and Conduct 1t along GER
ain lines Of conservatism for the
urpOse of mutual interest and the :
ublic good. Such men were en-
outraged in these enterprises, which
nabled them to furnish the people
n article of necessity which no man I
lone could. An association of cap
al is necessary in nearly all the !
reat undertakings Of life involving ]
lrge values and covering a wide
cid, and should be fostered, when
ghtly conducted, by the people, y
nd alloA ell Il lair return on the in f
estment. What is the situation to-
ay? Every organization of assOci- |
ed capital is public prey for the +
pt liticians. DESTROYS of
ding into office over the remains of 4
tied treasures and wasting sur t
Iuses. A freight train with one or a
lore of these political barnacles" at $
10 throttle, is loose in nearly every q
'uthern and western State, and
)ing down grade to destruction, i
trying with it the welfare of the i
eople and the hopes of future bus. 5
ess interests. Ii the good citizens +
these States stand illN by rnfnS. 8