The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-10-04

single purpose who can o. DO render
70 the state better OF greater service
than do these seif-sacrincing teachers
Of our common schools.
FOrthes Extension Of School Term
Urged.
The term Of the common school
should be lenghthsned. 80 that the
pupils may have better and fairer
opportunity TO become thoroughly
grounded In each study. We should
raise the standard OF our common
schools TO point commensurate with
the needs ID this advanced age, so
that when the youth OF our state shall
have completed the course prescribed
and goes forth with buoyant yet quick.
ly pulsating heart 10 engage N the
great bottle Of life. he may feel that
he Is equipped TO meet every issue
and TO win In the struggle In which
he Is 20 engage. II Is not every boy
who can have tho advantage OF col
legiate training and 70 these the state
owes the duty OF providing the best
public school facilities possible
Tho fun1s Of the state depends
upon the boys. and greatly upon the
boys who can gain no further educa.
ton than that Afforded by our com.
mon schools.
The history Of our country shows II
IL not those greatly favored IN a world.
~ way and who have had the advan.
tages q college education that have
attained the largest measure Of sue
ceeA Some q not most OF our great
Statesmen and generals have come
fron ne rsnhs Of the obscure. AD.
droW Jackson. born In q log hut IN
the piney woods Of North Carolina.
viih but httia education aud no means.
passed from sbjeot poverty into the
e1alted stauoo OF president Of the
United States, Daniel Webster left
DE piov ON his fathers hrIn In Kew
Hampshire and Numbered bis wAy
INTO the United States senate our
own beloved Clay. The mill boy OF
the slashes,r left his humble home In
the valleys Of Virginia % become In
the national congress a figure and a
power as great az the greatest Of tho
great men o. his age. Ulysses s.
Grant turning from his fathers tan
merry innIllinois. led the efnbatted
hosts o. the North 20 victory over the
brave and gallan, sons Of the South.
and made for himself record that
twice elevated him 70 The chief magis
tracy Of our nation Down IN LaRno
county. In a log hut on a little farm.
was born a type 81 that rugged but
lofty American manhood Abraham
Lincoln. who by the sheer force Of
viii and his native intelligence forged
his way into the white house and oc-
cupies in history place. and IN the
Hall Of Fame niche attained by few
q Americas great men. Thus we
canno, say to what heights they may
attain who are born in obscurity and
poverty
Mr.. Wilson a oodser on Temperance.
Passing to a subject that IL forcing
Itself upon the attention OF everybody
and like Banquo's ghost will not down.
! want to say that there Is d wide
spread and growing sentiment In this
country that the abuses Of the liquor
traf1c. though long INDUCED. should
be speedily and effectively corrected.
and the sale Of liquor properly and
I enciently regulated noticed an
opfn letter addressed to my opponent
NJ Wilson. the day before he opened
his campaign. By The Mason Indopen-
dent temperance paper Of MRysville
which (is\Rs follows; Please do no,
attempt y dismiss the important part
OF yonE/ platform (the ninth plank
with a few meaningless or colorless
sentences. The Temperance people OF
Mason county-your home county
are not few In numbers Not few
OF them in your own party. But these
temperance people are not Intending
% vote for any man. q any party
Who n not sound on tho great ques
ton now stirring tho state as never
before in her history Speak plainly
on the temperance question please
Your party.has been publicly charged
With nakiE this campaign with q
giAss o. whisky In ono hand and a
glass Of water in the other. and that
the temperance plank IN your pla,
form Is TO catch the temperance suck
era You may not be too plain on this
point. and make such reply 70 yuui
Accusers a. viii strengthen yOur
friends and win those who are mo-
fully persuaded was particularly
struck with the clear and lucid re
Spouse OF my distinguished opponent
listen 20 his reply "He Cthe editor
wants me 70 know that he expects tina
will answer his questions. printed II
black and white in the Independent
without any evasion or flppancy, 1
expect 10 have the votes u MAsoi
county. Brother Purdon makes m,
think Of boy who lived next doc
to me. who broke bottle in the patl
where I passed barefoot. and II look
20 me as II he did this purposely 10
me 70 get broken glass in my bar
foot when came hack on this pll
grimage To the home Of my tende
years" Brother Purdon was no