Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-02-15
WHAT MARION NEEDS
4 Plea For The Farmer With Some Show
OF Simple Justice
inu IS WORTHY OF MORE ATTENTION

1t useo to be in the good old year,
Of the past and whilst Marion wa,
bat an infan, in age, growth and de,
yelopement, that the good common
people ef Crittenden county had q
place within the limit of our town 20
hitch the tired horse and place to
leave their wagon and team. This
right custom and privilege of the
common people has been gradually
taken away from them until to-day
they have but enc place within the
confines Of our little city. where they
may hitch their tired horses without
compensation and without charge.
The place that the town has left the
common people for this purpose, has
ever belonged to the common people
and will ever belong to them. The
town itself has never made any pro-
vision at all for the welfare, care and
protection Of the farmers, horses and
teams. Never a week passes that
do not see in both Of the county pa
pers that are edited and published in
Marion, advertisements in great bold
characters, asking the farmers to
come TO Marion and purchase of the
Grocer, OF the Drygoods Merchant,
Of the Druggists their goods, which
they offer to ths farmer at most
reasonable and most fair price.
Since the fire especially have you ad-
vsfsised for their help, and how splen-
didly aud nobly they have come to
ycsr call, how graeiously they have
with their mesger means contributed
to your support.
On Monday 1 ss~ large crowd Of
people, country people, farmers for
the most part, in Marion, I saw the
old hitching place filed, packed aud
jsmmed with horses, belonging TO
these same farmers, then after there
was ne longer room left for the farmer
70 hitce his horse or leave his team.
! saw these same farmers seeking
place where they could leave their
horse and their team without cost,
therc was but one alternate left them,
>he livery stable, those vhe had the
Deans and felt that they could, went
<here, others who felt that they could
not meet this hardship we're compel
I'd to either hitch their horses to
pomeonc's fence, tree or post or re-
pain on their horse all day. or at
east while they were in town.
saw people from Livingston coun-
|ty, people from Webster county and
people from Crittenden county whose
|horses had been turned loose BY the
people OF Marion because they had
pitched them to their fence. You
Day the livery stables will accommodate
|fhem say that in the first place
|rere the country people to 20 to the
hvery stables with their horses and
their teams ard pay them their hard
|earned money, that these livery stables
|cOuld not accommodate one fourth OF
|these farmers.
This livery stable rule is an unjust
aud an uncalled for excuse. You
take your team and drive out to the
iarmer'r home, perchance theirs
store there also, you want to spend
the day at the farm or at the store,
they have signs up forbidding you to
hitch your horse to any fence, tree
or post, they point to a stable and
nay they will keep your two horses
over there for ~ per day. How often
DO YOU think you would 20 to this
store or 10 this farmers home under
these circumstances? say that an
|lnJusticc and wrong is being done
the farming class of people of this
Icodnty
Other towns make suitable provis-
|lons for the accommodation of their
farmer kiusmen, why should not
Marion through her city authority do
The same thing?
Other towns select within their
corporate limits place where the
farming class of people can, without
oeing arrested by the city marshall,
feII' swap or exchange their horses