Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-07-25
SEVEN YEARS RECORD.
What The Democratic Party Has Done For
Kentucky Since 1900.

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n. ed has been provided for, and tn
20 Kentucky Children's Home Societ.
Nv has been made State institution {
, the better care for the children o
,o the State whose parents leave then
~ dependent upon the public for sup
:, port. either because Of death or in
! ability to properly care for them
IS In restoring among investors OF
} other States confidence that they
q could safely come to Kentucky and
e invest their money, with confidence
e was destroyed as result of the Re.
: publican reign of terror in 1900,
' Democratic administration Of public
e affairs has found it necessary to
reestablsh the Kentucky Geological
Survey, to resume the geological,
Typographical appropriation to have
the resourc es of the State displayed
properly at the great st. Louis Ex-
position; and to appropriate to pre-
serve the forests, and to induce
immigration to Kentucky. A forest
map of Kentucky is now being made
in connection with experts of the
National Government, and an agent
of the State is in Switzerland secur-
ing a desirable class of immigrants
to increase in commercial coal mined
in Kentucky, and in lead, zinc and
other ores. Such has been the de-
velopment in the heretofore sparsely
settled eastern section of the State
that new Judicial districts have been
found necessary to be formed to
handle the increasing litigation due
to development and the settlement
of questions of title to timber and
mineral lands of the mountains.
The farming interests of the State
have been looked after as never be-
fore in the history of the State. From
a department the abolition of which
was seriously considered in 1900, the
State Agricultural Department of
the State government has grown to
be one of its most important feat
ures. A State fair, given under the
auspices of a State Board Of Agricul-
ture, Forestry and immigration, is
given annually, permanent grounds
: having been secured; Farmers In
stitutes are held yearly in every
county and section of the State, the
farmers being leetured to by experts
of the National Government and of
other States; the farmers have been
authorized by legislative acts to pool
their crops of all kinds to better pro-
tect themselves from the trusts and
combinations of capital; acts have
been placed upon the Statue books
to the better enable them to drain
lands and build levees; the leaf to-
bacco act of 1892 has been repealed
with a provision that no penalty
might thereafter be recovered in any
court; and ets have been passed to
regulate the sale of commercial feed
ing stuffs and to prevent and punish
the adulteration of seeds sold to the
farmers. A State Racing Commits
sion has been created to better pro-
tect the great horse raising industry
of the State and to take the racing
business out Of the hands of the
gamblers.
1t has been under Democratic
administration of public affairs that
laws authorizing the regulation of
freight rates charged by railroad
companies have been enacted and
great benefits to tn hippers of
town and country resulted. 1t is un-
der Democratic administration that
S atutes have been enacted to place
the National banks upon the same
footing as State banks in the matter
of the payment Of taxes. 1t is under
Democratic administration that a
Pure Food law has gone upon the
Statue books. 1t is under Demo-
cratic administration that the great
rectifed liquor interests of the State
have been brought to the payment
of taxes. 1t is under Democratic
administration that a life service in
the Police and Fire Departments of
the leading cities of the State has
been rewarded by pension. 1t is I'M
der Democratic administration that
261 cents instead of % cents Of the
General Revenue of the State goes in