The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-09-22

~ W luz IOlnnSE, thCy dioh y A~'S -
go to road workings, and when the saw
ages invaded the dark and bloody
ground they didn't have to join with
their friends, with the rifles, in the
defense of their homes; and when the
flaming light upon the hill top indi-
Gated that the flame of life of neigh
Dor was Pickering, they didn't have to
ride twenty-five miles over bad roads
for a doctor. nor did they have to go to
the grave in which his body finally
reposed. But what kind Of man is
it that would not have done those
things without having to do them.
(Applause)?
No Sons of American Tories"
We have Sons of the Revolution and
Daughters of the American Revolution
and all that kind of stuff, but who ever
heard of a Son of American Tories?
(Laughter) You don't have to support
the churches of this country. 1t Is
written in your constitution that you
shall not be compelled to do it; yet in
every neighborhood, town, village,
hamlet and settlement there are the
spires that point to heaven,-the great
est blessing for peace and good order
in all of this land,-and yet you don't
have to build them, you don't have to
pay the preacher 1t Is all voluntary.
You don't have to go TO church your
self. Maybe that is the reason many Of
us don't go (Laughter). You don't have
patronize the universities or the insti-
tutions Of learning and you don't have
to deposit your money in bank, you
don't have to enter into voluntary cor
I fn ha d1inr, Of lind Of
business but don't you do these things
And isn't it all because the matter is
made to appeal TO your judgment. to
your good sense, to your patriotism.
and because of these things you do it?
Draws Two Pictures.
/ want to give you two pictures, you
Kentuckians. | hope it will never get
abroad, but just here among our
selves.
There came before the court recent
ly,-the court of which I have the
honor to be a member,-a typical case.
Two young men from one of the coun-
ties of Kentucky had committed a
homicide. They were illiterate youths.
They lived in neighborhood with out
adequate schools or churches, where
the environment was not good; not the
best. They were convicted; they were
sentenced. Thereby was lost two young
lives to the State, hardy sturdy young
fellows who have fallen i'm Kentucky,
a charge upon the people. because
Kentucky has not wisely administered
her affairs with respect to her youth.
About the same time there occurred
across the Ohio an instance Of strik-
Il ing significance. Gathered in one of
| the industrial communities of that
state were the representatives of for
| eign nations, the President and Con-
gress of the United States, the Gov
enor and high officials of the state,
the officers and tens of thousands of
admlring fellow citizens, 10 do honor
to two youths of Ohio. Their names
were Wright and they had solved the
problems of the air. They were the
iproduct of a state that protects it's
industries and that encourages its en-
! terprises, that educates its people and
/ that strenkthens them when II can.
/ Why could not that have occurred in
/ Kentucky?
| The Producers OF Wealth.
| We talk about our growing wealth.
/ Ny countrymen. it is the sad truth
| that so far as we farmers of Ken
lucky are concerned. the wealth of
this state is not materially increasing
/ We have hut few and insignificant
manufacturing institutions. as CompaI-
| ed with the world at large that manu-
! features things in this wonderful age
of manufacturing enterprises. Our
mining industries are limited our for
| ests are being rapidly denuded There
are but two classes of people: one. the
/ producer. the other those who consume
/ and don't produce. Wealth is not made
by merchants and bankers and lawyers
( and doctors and store keepers and
hotel men. Wealth is made by the PEG.
pie who produce something new. either
! out of the soil or the mines or the for.
ests or manufactur what is new into
something that the markets of the
world require.
Buy More Than We Sell.
/ Kentucky's products are agricultural
/ Kentucky can not compete in corn
with Missouri or Indiana, nor in
wheat with the Dakotas or any of the
great Northwest They set the prices
on cheap land and cheap labor, with
steel machinery, without a stump and
with few things TO interfere. You can't
/ compete. The cattle business in Ken
lucky is on a very narrow margin, as
/ all you Kentucky cattle men here can
! testify, of profit. The whisky business
| in Kentucky don't get scared, | am
not going to deliver a temperance lee.
/ ture) buys most of its corn abroad. You
don't sell much to them The only
thing that is making money in Ken
lucky is the farm products. And what
do you buy? Every blessed thing you
| have got on, from your shoes to your
hat. from the bowl in which you wash
your face in the morning,-whethe it
/ be a bowl or tin pan,-to the towel
on which you wipe your face, from the
table at which you sit down 10 the
plate out of which you eat. even to the
knives and forks and even to much of
the food upon your table. All these
things are produced out of Kentucky
and we are buying them and have to
pay for them; and we have to pay for
them ont of the things that are pro.
duced in Kentucky.
Tobacco Our Money Crop.
/ said Kentucky is an agricultural
state. That article of agriculture in
which you can make the most ready