The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-03-06
ON year TO year in the mat.

tie figure Of a gro wing youth
o hing adapted to his frame.
7 s thu house would hand the cap
la hume pality a it this year of
t e same size as last year or even
ri er With Wi IS protrudiaS
fl r. the coat cuffs. with knees 'ex-
POSED by upstretching kaickei book
e.s, W tn waistcI at falling to male
come ton wi, h the lower part Ct the
costume, with coat tiehtly stretched
&C oss an expanding cheTt and strain
ing at buttons, the develoring district
presents a sorrowing figure after it
has been fitted out by the horse aU-
prCpIiations committee according to
the measurements and style lail
down by the latest bill to come from
that body. The tendency of such a
roioy is to subject the municipality
to ridicCle.''
District Won't Be Weaned.
Mr.. Chairman, have seen that bov.
met him on the highway not long
ago. Before l saw him met q. wOJ"
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
did not ask any protection from me,
however. She seemed in no apparent
danger. l asked her no question, ard
she fed along. When l turned a
curve in the road I met a great big,
fat. chubby boy, Is or II years old,
with curls hanging down his back,
the perspiration rolling down his
face; and up the road he came run
mig. When | met him he stopped
me and said, Mister, did you meet a
woman up the road just ahead of
me-" | said did. He said, WAS
she dressed in a black suit of clothes
with a black bonnet and a big black
plume in her hat?" I said, eyes; that
is the woman met, and she was run
ming" He said, well, I want TO
catch her. Will you let me have your
horse and buggy that l may catch
her." said, Il do not know about
that. First, tell me what you want
with her" He then said, That is
nv mamma. and she is trying to
wean me, and / swear l do not intend
10 let her do it." Uaught"r.)
Mr.. Chairman, take this boy, which
the District of Columbia says must
wear short breeches and an ill.htting
coat, and compare him to your Uncle
Sam, and then what does this picture
present? No clothes at all will III
him. If suit, perchance, had been
made at some time or other where
the trousers we're for a one-legged
man. and the one-legged man were
willing to have the trousers made
in that way, then they might At your
Uncle Sam, because one of his legs
,, has been pulled so long by the Dis
trict of Columbia that there is nc
use for but one leg in those trousers
Laughter.) What kind of hat must
your Uncle Sam have? They say
that this boy must have the most
modern hat, no matter what it costs
. no matter where the money is tC
come from.
Yet your Uncle Sam has beer
wearing the same hat since he com
! menced pouring public money into
. this bottomless pit, from which nj
l collar ever returns. Take his coat
e 1t has been tattered and torn during
all this time. and ne has had bu
one suit of clothes, while this big
, fat, chubby boy, with curly locks, hai
had a new one every year; and now
when the conizlittee calls halt the!
complain because. for the first tim'
2 since 1874, or as far as that is con
! cerned, for the first time since 1888
} when the District of Columbia wa
= bankrupt. he is not to have a new
5 suit of clothes. What has this DO.
beer denied? / say positively moth
4 ing. That chubby boy-in othe
/ cords. the District Of Columbia-ha
/ been given the last dollar, and thel
Y some. to which the law entities him
j Now we come. / say, to where tn
federal government does not asl
0 more than that to which it is entities
!, under the law; but the time nov
n comes when the federal govern
= ment is asked for that which tn
o district has unlawfully received TO
= fact. in not one of those years ha
:, the district been legally entitled to il
[, Frightfu Indictment.
= Mr.. Chairman, one Of the most al
propriate things ] ever saw IN IN
language, a thing that was opportun
{ then and rs opportune now, l find i
: an old report
NJ. Sims: A report of what?
M. Johnson of Kentucky: A RI
Tort of a congressional committee
) The report, in speaking of condition
which then existed, had this to sa
!, in speaking of the district govern
;, ment:
= "They have laid their hands upo
all the organized forces of the con
munity; they have captured ever
p source of influence, public and pr
{ vate; they have dictated the conduC
of the press, controlled the legisl;
ture and manipulated the courts
;. they have demanded the irresponsible
u Nf hn nIRhliP funds