The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-28
BEN JOHNSON
Y FOR THE PEOPLE
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rouse from year to year in the mat
ter of appropriations the district pre-
eents the figure Of a growing youth
denied clothing adapted to his frame.
Thus the house would hand the cap
ital municipality a suit this year Of
the same size as last year or even
smaller With wrists protruding
from the coat cuffs. with knees ex-
posed by upstretching knickerbock-
ers, with waistcoat failing to make
connection with the lower part Of the
costume, with coat tightly stretched
across an expanding chest and strain
ing at buttons, the developing district
presents a sorrowing figure after 1t
has been fitted out by the house APP
propriations committee according to
the measurements and style laid
down by the latest bill to come from
that body. The tendency of such a
policy is to subject the municipality
to ridicule."
District Won't Be Weaned.
Mr.. Chairman, have seen that boy.
l met him on the highway not long
ago. Before | saw him I met wom-
an In the road. She came running
down the road in haste, looking back,
first over one shoulder and then over
the. other, as If danger followed. She
disfnot ask any protection from me,
however She seemed in no apparent
danger / asked her no question, and
- a. a11 4 t,,x-n al a
curve in the road I met a great big,
fat, chubby boy, 16 or II years old,
with curls hanging down his back,
the perspiration rolling down his
face; and up the road he came run
ming. When l met him he stopped
me and said, mister, did you meet
woman up the road just ahead of
me?" said I did. He said, WAS
| she dressed in black suit Of clothes
with a black bonnet and big black
| plume in her hat?" said, yes; that
is the woman met, and she was run
ming" He said, "Well, want to
Catch her. Will you let me have your
horse and buggy that I may catch
ther?" l said, II do not know about
that. First, tell me what you want
with her." He then said, THAT is
Ymy mamma, and she is trying to
wean me, and swear I do not intend
Ito let her do it." Laughter)
Mr.. Chairman, take this boy, which
1.-THE District of Columbia says must
lwear short breeches and an Hitting
coat, and compare him to your Uncle
Sam, and then what does this picture
present? No clothes at all will fit
him. If suit, perchance, had been
bnade at some time or other where
the trousers were for one-legged
man, and the one-legged man were
willing to have the trousers made
In that way, then they might fit your
Uncle Sam, because one Of his legs
haskbeen pulled so long by the Dis
krict of Columbia that there is no
kse for but one leg in those trousers.
Laughter.) What kind Of hat must
our Uncle Sam have? They say
hat this boy must have the most
modern hat, no matter what it costs,
10 matter where the money Is to
ome from.
Yet your Uncle Sam has been
Nearing the same hat since he COM
henced pouring public money into
his bottomless pit, from which no
ollar ever returns. Take his coat.
B has been tattered and torn during
kll this time, and he has had but
bne suit of clothes, while this big,
lat, chubby boy, with curly locks, has
bad q new one every year; and now,
|IRhen the committee calls halt they
komplain because, for the first time
fnce 1874, or as far as that is con-
srned, for the first time since 1888,
when the District Of Columbia was
bankrupt, he is not to have new
hit of clothes. What has this boy