Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-03-14
GRASSY CREEK.

Mrs. j w. Carter is thought
to be a little better.
| was a little surprised when |
read last weeks Courier to find
that had an antagonist, and
such a brainy one. Just sprang
up in a night like Jonah's gourd.
Some think that from his display
of oratory and eloquence that it
must be a Cicero risen, or a lat
ter day Patrick Henry or Henry
Clay, but | think that it is some
Big Ike OF Smart Alex wanting
to advertise himself. This great
orator subscribes himself Knock
er, of Knockersville. | do not
know the man or the place, but
suppose it is somewhere on Gods
terra firma, in some large city,
as a. man of Knockers ranL
would not be supposed to live il.
the country among common peo-
pie. | scarcely ever reply t.
balderdash, but will ask space tc
defend myself. Knocker says:
Il was both surprised and as
tonished when Tread your paper;
49,, but lamentably astonished,
yea, shocked, shamed and cha
grinned," etc. | suppose the
shock was awful. Nothing shori
of a mind second to Jehovah
could have withstood it.
His reference is to what Fair
Play said on the subjects of ex.
tending the school term, donat.
ing stock license to State Fail
and appropriating $75, 100000 tt
erect a Governors mansion.
He says tina he don't want ;
personal "knockdown" Intro
duction = Editor to me nor t.
know name. Neither do | wan
a personal "knockdown," blu
Knocker cast the first stone, an,
he can get my name on applica
ton. | am going to reiterat
that such legislshians as the abov
mentioned, together witfF ,
spurious article by Knockei
should meet with a stern rebuke
He is the first man to accuse m
of being opposed to education
| have always been and Away
will be the friend of educatio
and my acts prove it.
What opposed to the exten
sion of the school terml" Ye
inded, simply becAue it unjus
legislation. Tne children of Ker
lucky have six months each yea
from six to twenty years of age
which means IA solid years i
school; any pupil that can not az
quire an education in that tim
should be sent to the feebl
minded institute.
Yet, Knocker, like the hors
leach, says it is not enough, bu
wants to coop the children up
IL of the year, which would ia
their minds beyond their capac
ty, and would rob the parents o
service that is due them. Farm
ing is as indispensable as educs
ton, because the farmer move
the business world and Knocke
knows it.
Opposed to the appropriate
of the fund raised for license
stock to the state Fair!" yes,
am opposed to it, as every othe
fair minded level headed, ma
should be. There was paid int
the State treasure in 1911
$50, 707.73 for stock license.
there any good reaaon why tn
State of KY, should donate tn.
enormous sum of money to til
State Fair? Is it a fact that tn
fair has become a State charge
Is it not self supporting? If M
they had better quit bushes
and get job that will pay.
we buy their fine stock we pa
the same | rice for it, as if til
appr' peiation had net been mad,
1t is no more just to appropriat
that money to the Fair than
issto appropriate it to TIE farmer
or to the school teachers, 1t
robbery to do either.
Opposed to the az propriatio
o:75,00r. 20 to ere ct adecent con
modious Governors mansion!
Yes, am opposed to it becaus
it is extraN agence, $780,, 000.(
is enough to buy and erect
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