Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-22

WHAT rs the matter With Christian
county?
Ordinarily We would answer this
question with shes all right
and she generally IS, but there is
one proposition on which She is
standing in her own light. We re-
fer to the enterprise placed on foot
by the Kentucky Exhibit Associa-
ton for a Kentucky building and
full display of the States products
and resources at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis next year, an enter
prise that has the endorse
ment and backing OF a majority of
the best communities in the State,
an enterprise that has not devel-
oped one iota Of opposition from any
source.
Had the last legislature made an
appropriation Of S1OO,OOO for Ken
tucky's representation at this ex-
position, our county would have
paid of that amount S1,74O. Up to
this time she has not contributed
one cent toward the movement that
must result in the best advertise
ment ever given this commonwealth
the richest in every way in the
union.
Why this lack of interest? Ger
tainly it cannot be said Of our coun-
ty that her people are not pro-
gressiye and do not want to Join
hands with others in giving to the
State the representation she must
have at this greatest Of all Worlds
Fairs if she is to keep step with the
march OF Twentieth Century Pros
perity? Certainly our people are
aware that the Kentucky Exhibit
Association has no element of self
ishness in its makeup, for its men,
bers are giving freely of their time
and money to make the under
taking a success, there being no
salaried commissioners as would
have been the case under a legisla-
tive appropriation. Certainly our
people realize that no county IN the
State has more to show thaS Chris
ian.
Well, whatever this seeming in
difference, it is high time we were
throwing it off. iSet's delay no
longer. Kentucky is going to. be
at the exposition. The
movement looking to this end has
passed its wabbly stage. 1t is not
enough, though, to- be represented;
Kentucky deserves to be and. should
be cBeditably represented.
Won t our citizens see to it that
she isS Let's begin now subserib-
ing to the fund. The Kentuckian
has devoted coIhmns upon. columns
Of space to the cause of State devel-
opmeat. There ls-certainlE no one
who would confess himself so igno-
ranA as to not be fully acquainted
with this worthy effort to lift the
State to a PROUD eminence.
Among the counties already rep
resented on the subscription books
Of thu Kentucky Exhibits Associa-
lion are Ballard, Barnen, Bell
Boone, Boyd, Boyle, Bracken,
Breckenridge, Campbell Carroll,
Clark, Crittenden, Fayette, Frank
in, Grant, Henderson, Hopkins,
Hickman, Jefferson, Iessamine, /
ohnson, Kepton, Laurel, Lawrence, |
livingston, Lyon, McCracken,
Madison, Marion, Mason, MCnt-
sOmery, Muhlenberg, Nicholas,
spencer, Trigg, Union, Warren,
Whitley. Few of these counties
,ave contributed. sums equal to
heir apportionment under a State
appropriation, but their citizens are
1t work and they will make a good
showing. Boyd has raised $905;
Barren, $50; Bell, $158; Carroll,
500. 40e Crittenden, $500; Fayette,
b2,048s Hopkins, $1,000; Kenton,
81, $500 Laurel, 500; Lawrence
$3.50; Livingston, 500; MasonB
S61238; Montgomery, $500; Mullen
berg. $726; Whitley, $225. LOUIS
Vile alone has subscribed about
$4,000 and will raise several thou
sand more.
AS we say in the headlines, ats
up to usi' and no mistake.
The Association has sent us a
number Of subscription blanks and
we will receive contributions to the
fund at our Office until further no.
tice. Any member of the associa-