Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-05

Gated to theft, and from thence preach
to us from the text, Thou shalt not
steal"
New York, New York will not fol-
low the example of the Sun and con-
denim a whole city. but / will suggest
to him who thus arraigns us, that It
! would be well for his city to cast the
beam out of its own eye, that it may
more clearly see this Southern mote.
From whence will he select his "peace
conference" which shall teach subli
mated morals and a higher and holier
reverence of the law to the riotous
night riders of Kentucky and Tennese
see. VIII they come from III Fifth
Avenue-the den of the robber and
the home of the trust? Will they
come from Wall street, where COM
mercial piracy flaunts its black flag
above the exchange and board Of
! trade?
Will they come from those sky
scrapers where larceny has been re-
duced to a fine art-from the McCalls
and the McCudrys-"They are not
man, they are not woman, they are
not beast, they are not human, they
are ghouls." Standing like wolves be-
his all with them to save from ruin a
wife and child and then as the death
rattle is in his throat they pick the
| pockets of his widow and his orphans.
Will they come from those who, yes
terday attended that saturnalia of sin
among the towers and minarets of
Madison Square Gardens peopled top?
all dappled in the blood and infamy
of harlots and roues-would they
turn from the scene of scandal and
murder-just long enough to reprove
| lawl essness in Kentucky? Or from the
| great white way" with it's tinsel and
| it's paint, its riabald song, its maudlin
leer, and that hoarse and drunken
| laugh defiant alike to God and man
will it, too, pause in its lascivious
| whirl-from a hell on earth to the
hell to come-just long enough to de
| plore lawlessness in Kentucky.
The editor of the New York Sun
challenging me by name to deny this
| Indictment against my people, lives in
| the midst of a city where in many
| places a woman's honor is not safe.
| Two hundred women assaulted in
ninety days. 1t is said that lion
will turn and flee from a maid in the
pride of her purity" l would rather
risk helpless virgin to a band Of
night riders as they gallop up ant
down a Southern highway, than t
trust her to the tender mercies Of &
New York mob. tremendous ap
lplause and cheers)
And now this old trust fed tharisee
standing in the midst of a delirioui
whirl, where at midday women are de
lowered in the streets, holds up hi
filthy hands in holy horror at the des
ecration of a plant bed in Kentucky
(Applause)
EVANSVILLE INTERVIEW.
N " my friends, 1 gave out an IL
terv w short time ago, in whic'
said that this statement in the Pos
was untrue. l said that it was absC
lutely untrue. | said that it was
gross exaggeration. Then the Assc
ciated Press happened to get that in
terview, and it raised the awfules
hallabaloO you ever heard in thi
country. In statement after state
ment, editorial after editorial, the,
let me have it good and hot. | an
like the little boy at school wht
scratched his head, and scratched hi
head, and the teacher said: "Stol
scratching your head, If you don't,
will whip you" He said: Look here
teacher, they commenced on me first.
(Laughter) They commenced on m,
first Now I like a fight They mis-
take their man when they open on me
for a scrap, if they don't want it. Blu
/ serve notice now on the trust and al
its emissaries-you shall show your
! colors-not the meanest mercinary il
all the cohorts of corruption shall fire
from ambush-I will know who load
ed your little gun. This Association
wants no lisping, faint, two-faced pro
fession of friendship. 1t knows the
might, cunning and the meanness OF
| its adversary. You will never get me
with a Swamp angel" or betray the
allied planters with a kiss. (Tremen
dous applause. Voice in audience
sings: 81 don't know wehere he's 60
ing, but he's on his way" followed by
long and continued applause)
| said there had been few instances
to my knowledge-cOmparatively few
I-of violence.
l was in Evansville attending to
lsome law suits. / went down to the
Lottie to get my dinner and Mr.
Rothram, who promised to be here
came in there with this Internal arti-
Gle in his hands. Three thousand
plant beds destroyed" l said, "That's
false; that's exaggerated; there
were not a tenth of it: there
were but very few depredations; very
few, of course, as compared with that
statement. Few" is a relative term
you understand. If you should take
your girl out to dinner and ask her il
she would have some peas and she
should say "few," you would think
she was very modest; but if you asked
her If she would have an ear Of corn
and she should say a "few," you
would think she was hog applause
and laughter)
Now then, let me show you some
thing more. Now, don't let me weary
you. 1t is insufferably hot in here. If