The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-04-26
THE QUESTION OF PROHIBITION
AS IT APPEARS IN THE SOUTH
,Iiy George w. PeckD

NhN ttOlE' w ltthl
tFormcr Governor OF Wisconsin.
who is travelling in the South study
ing the Prohibition Question for The
Ardmorclte and the Milwaukee Sen.
t.nclD
Louisville. Ky. April 25 The op
portuuity comes to every man who Is
in his right mind. to occasionally
visit dear Old Kentucky. and he usu.
ally begins to do Kentucky by doing
Louisville. and IL must be- said that
too many OF US never get beyond
Louisville. and they get all that would
come to them I'm the whole state
right here In this little old town II
be- knows many people who live here
he does not kant TO get away, and
II ne does not know soul In town,
they nud him before he has wander.
cd far and they soon make him feel
that hr Is a long lost relative who
/ takes one drink OF ten year old whisli-
cy. ne wants to stay, and the next
| citizen who treats him, will give him
o twelve year old brand OF whiskcy,
| and ne wants TO buy home here
| and when the third citizen springs
/ the fourteen year old kind. right out
of the wood. that has never seen a
drop of water since II left the dis.
| tillcry. ne picks out business block
that he wants to buy, and when the
sixteen year old brand strikes his
yitals, he gets an option on the whole
town. and they carry him to bed, and
he dreams of moonshine heaven.
where all the angels are Kentucky
girls That rs what they tell me.
have been coming to Louisville oc,
and nothing about the old town seems
to have grown any older except the
whiskey. Every year the same whisk
ey is a year or two older, and thai
brand that your host has bragge.
about a dozen years ago, when II wa
eight years old has become SO prcCi
Gus that a smell OF the cork is WORT
twice the price OF admission, and
you will drink IL without water, yo
are his friend, but if you put on
drop of water in n glass. the hos
feels that you have run knife int
him and he does not like you an
more. The practice that has been i
i vogue OF every man having whiske
y year older than that of his neigl
- bor, has gone out. as compromis
has been effected and all whiskey
r now IL years old everywhere, aud
! man wants to claim greater exec
lence for his particular beverage, h
tells YOU in reminiscent way IN;
\ IL is quite old. sab" and leaves yo
!, To guess its birthday after It is
/ YOU
4 But everything (" ~o' ,,I In Ee
: lucky The ladies are all rs young ,
= they were years ago, and they loo
z H. for your true Kentucky girl
: never any older than she was wht
= You first saw her. ana though n,
: hair may become gray, or even viii
3 as snow, her checks are read as che
{ rics her eyes sparkle like diamond
|. she dances like fairy, rides the hor.
Z like a West Point cadet, and will {,
in % Z D.. D.,
hair turned gray before she ",
: thirty IL is a fine provision OF Il
4, turc that beautiful woman noy,
i grows old. whatever else may happ,
= In Kentucky. But while a Kcntuckia
< Is honest in everything else, ha,
sometimes had my doubts about nj
Z when It come TO talking about horse
= Every mans horse is the best ar
T. the Youngest until you meet a
I other man with horse Sixteen yea
= ago | was looking for a saddle hor,
= here, and a man showed me Nh
saddle horse, head and tail up. VII
= an the gaits a perfect beauty, Al
: ohlN seven year ola. ! knew thal 4
= horses in kentucky were either tv
I years old. or three years old, or belo
, seven. but / did not buy that hors
though joe blackburn ana Colon
Wattersou told me l could take u
7 word OF that man on q mess
bibles for he came OF one OF Il
: best families In Kentucky 10 ),
I know yesterday ! saw that san
/, man riding that same horse and VII,
1 ae refined mp In front OF a store, q
. prop ietor said II any gcnueme,
Z from the North wanted pcrgt
saddle horse, there was bargai
3 looked az the horse, spoke To q
: owner. and asked him the age
. the horse. He thought a moment. q