Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1911-10-19
Think Seriously
Vote Intelligent1y
Ottoman Asks Some Perti-
nent Questions and Gives
Some Sage Advice.

seriously what relation the re-
suit is going to bear to his own
welfare; and still more seriously
should he consider what it will
mean to all the people of the
State, as a whole. We are living
in times when the cost of living
has so increased that it threatens
hunger for multitudes of the
poor, not only in our own land,
but throughout the countries of
the world. Hunger makes men
desperate. Already in some of
the cities of Europe the poorer
classes have risen in arms and
demanded bread. They are be-
ing answered by presented bay
onets of the soldiery. If the
daily bread of the poor continue
to grow dearer here in our own
land, who can answer how for
away are riots and uprisings
here? IAN ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure" is a
maxim too true to ever grow
trite.
We should ask ourselves whether
the political policies of a country
have anything to do with the
proper distribution of wealth.
Do they affect this present omi-
nous question of high prices of
food and clothing? The day is
past when politics was an in
herited prejudice; it has become
to be the graver matter of the
peoples present welfare.
And so we say each voter
should study for himself whether
governmental policies have any
thing, to do with those vital con-
feerns Of life4lf-aSs, why did
wheat jump four cents on the
bushel in five minutes, after the
Reciprocity treaty was defeated
in Canada? Why does your
clothes cost you so much more
than the wool and the labor cost
the manufacturer? Why did you
have to pay so much more fol
shoes after the passage of the
Dingley tariff bill? These ques.
tions are only examples; you car
ask yourself a hundred more like
them. 1t stands to reason, ant
no honest man who has studied
the question doubts, that tn,
consumer is the one who in tn,
wind-up pays the tariff tax OF
any protected article.
John Langley said at Ashland
a few days ago: "I am a James
G. Blaine and William McKin
ley, protection republican, and
stand ready to do battle for nat
ional republican politics-n e X
year." Continuing, he said: Il
there is any one who doubts tn,
acquiescence in these sentiment
of Judge Edward c. 0'Rear, thel
| say to him that he does no
know the man."
Langley is O'Rear's manager
and is supposed to speak advise
), dly. He as answered the ques
ton which 0'Rear himself ha
: lodged for more than a month
/, Senator McCreary could neve
+ get O'Rear to say whether he er
! dorsed Taft's vetoes of the CO.
ton bill, wool bill and farmer
9 free list bill. Langley got int
n a big Republican crowd wit
e brass bands a lot of yelling, an
. under the excitement he let driN
t and told the truth about it. {
i course, every one knows Ore;
a endorsed those vetoes; Senat,
/. McCreary knew it when he as
r ed him the question.
: And have you noticed no
h squeamish they are about ma
e ional issues? 0'Rear is cryir
: out all over the State that tn
! State election has nothing to
/. with national affairs. Let's Sc
Wouldn't a Republican legisls
ure mean a Republican Senat
from Kentucky? Would that 8
ID feet national affairs? 0'Rear
m trying to beat Ollie James ju
Or the same as he is trying to be
McCreary. He wants John
Langley or Caleb Powers to 6
" Ollie James place in the Sens