Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-24

up on the subject OF dreams. .
thought I would post myself and Go
out what l really was, or whethe Y
was a disgraceful thing or not;
found to my surprise that the suByesy
OF dreams was really quite subject,
after all, and that there had been
dreamers before. went to TIE Bible,
where | always go when l am in trou-
BILE. / have never found a book with
40 much truth in it as the Bible con-
tains. and I don't know Of any book
where truth is more beautifully ex-
pressed and | looked in the Bible to
see If could find anything about the
dreamer: and l found that there were
dreamers in the Bible, and that the
most prominent one was Joseph and
because Joseph's brothers called him
q dreamer, and they did not like his
dreams. they hated him. They plot
ted to kin him, and when he was sent
out by his father to his brethren who
had their focks IN Dothan, they said,
Here comes the dreamer; let US put
him away and be done with him." But
finally they decided that instead OF
killing him they would just put him
down in a pit, and let the father be-
lieve that he had been killed in some
way by a wild beast. Then some mer-
chants came along, and they took
Joseph out Of the pit and sold him,
and sent him down into Egypt, and
then they congratulated themselves
and said, Now we are rid Of the
dreamer" and things went along for
awhile until they had almost forgot
ten Joseph, and then there came 4
famine and they had to go down into
Egypt and buy corn, and when they
got to Egypt there they found the
dreamer, and he had the corn; and
so, my friends, l made up my mind
1t was not so bad to be dreamer pro
vided you have the corn, and in that
speech proceeded to show the Re
publicans how the Democratic party
had been dreaming and how they had
the corn and we're prepared to satisfy
all political needs.
The more / thought on this subject
the less willing was to class myself
with the dreamers, for it was too high
and honored for me. The dreamer,
why he is q great man. John Boyle
O'Reilly says that the dreamer lives
forever, while the toiler dies in a daK,1
AS went from nation to ma
ton in travelling through Eu-
rope / found that everywhere
the ideas of jefferson had been
conveyed, and that everywhere
they we're planted and were a
growing. When | left home ~
VIZ proud of the Democratic
party. | poasted that be-
lonqed to a party that was es-
sentlaIIy old, but when ! got
back from my IT around the
world | was pre- lder still, for
ehls cid Democratic party that
jefferson founded is not only
century old, but It is $1,000
miles wide.
am proud of Jefferson's work. OF
all the constructive statesmen in the
worlds history, he is the greatest,
and, my friends, when the names that
Republicans love to quote - when
these names are forgotten, little chill
dren will lisp the name of Jefferson,
and freemen will stand up and praise
the one who taught them to know a
freeman's rights and fight for them.
And now, Democrats. let me ask
you a question: If Republican pres
ident can win popularity by spasmod-
ically and sporadically doing some
thing Democratic, what would be the
popularity of a Democratic president
who was consistently and persistently
Democratic an all questions? Isn't
this bad time for a Democrat to be-
come discouraged? Never since
have known politics have we had so
much to encourage us.
In this state you have by organiza'
ton among the farmers, been able 10
protect yourselves to some extent
from the greed of one great monop-
oily, but instead of feeling satisfied at
the great success that has come to
your organization, bid you have some
feeling for those who are not so sit
uated that they can protect them
selves as you have been able to pro-
tect yourselves. Have you not learned
something Of what monopoly is, and
are you not ready now to join with us
to Law the ak at the root of the tree,
and instead OF saying as Secretary
Taft said, that there are good trusts
and bad trusts, are you not ready TO
saw with US that God never made a
man good enough to stand at the head
of a private monopoly and control the
price of what people had to use?"
Is It not time that we seriously
take up this question and put the
American government back upon its
old foundation, and make it again a
government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the peopie2 Are you not
ready to enlist In this contest? have
been fighting for this principle now