The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-22
IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Twenty five thousand dollars have
been appropriated by Congress for a
fish hatchery in Kentucky. II is
hoped that il will be located some
where among the mountains. There
will be small use in distributing fish
in the streams Of Kentucky, however,
unless a change Of heart comes over
the people, and the laws protecting
fish against seiners and dynamiters
are enforced.
The County Unit Local Option Bill
has small chance OF passing as Il was
drawn IL has been placed on the
calender with fully forty other meas
ures ahead Of H. All efforts TO
make it a special order have failed
up TO date. tho friends Of the meas.
ure declare they will oppose any
attempt TO make any other bill spe-
cial order unless this bill be advanced
The semi-annual conference Of the
NO called Mormon church has just
been held in Louisville. The re-
port shows that there are FIVE estab
lished Mormon churches in the state
worshiping in their own buildings
These buildings are located in Bath.
Casey, Trigg, Floyd, and Trimble
counties. In the state the member
ship now numbers l,ous--il,-ss'st'-'c .sif
only FIVE members in Louisville
Judging from that. one would say
that, whatever the people Of Louis
vile may be in other respects. they
are not fools. Missionaries have
been appointed 30 work in Louisville
and in Henry, Monroe, Lee, Mercer,
Edmonson, and Green counties.
Our readers should be warned, for
the next conference may send work
ers among them.
A ship subsidy bill has passed the
Senate This bill establishes thir.
teen mail steamship lines aud increas-
es the subsidy now being paid 10 the
line between the Pacific coast and
Australia. IL grants subsidy Of
$500 per gross ton a year 10 cargo
vessels engaged in the foreign trade
Of the United States. and a rate Of
$3.50 10 those engaged in the Philip
pine trade. IL also creates naval
reserve OF 10000 officers and men,
certain proportion OF whom are 10 be
employed and paid 10y vessels receiv-
ing subsidies. This is all wrong
Why not give subsidies TO farmers on
arid lands as wells
Only fifteen days more OF legisla-
tion at Frankfort and still the houses
are illustrating in a mastery manner
how not 10 do it. II they would
spend less time 10 trying to legislate
q growing Republican sentiment out
Of representation and get down 10
business, the present Democratic ma
iority would be doing more for itself
and for the country. Important bills
are still in committee, and practical
ly nothing is being done but report
new bills. Get down to business,
gentlemen.
The railroad rate bill is seemingly
asleep in the Senate committee. The
charge is made that neither its friends
nor its enemies are willing TO submit
the court review feature of the bill TO
vote. Several amendments TO the
bill have been introduced aud il is
said that Senator Spooner has anoth-
er under consideration regarding the
holding Of the difference OF rate
under consideration in the hands Of
the court.
The game Of solitaire which the
Democratic Legislators are playing at
Frankfort, which has for its object
the division of the mountain counties
80 as to eliminate as many Republi
can districts as possible, still con
tinues. Why do not the gentlemen
who said Damn the Constitution"
In regard TO another matter legislate
30 that all the counties having a
Republican majority be, ipso facto,
placed in one senatorial district and |
so joined TO Democratic counties as
10 annul their votes in Assembly /
districtsf IL would amount to prac- /
tioslly the same thing in the end and |
would be no more disgraceful to the
majority than are the present pro-