Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-08

an IilefSIy IIlaKlNS u compressor
and telling the plain unvarnish-
ed truth. / have surrendered
no principle in my action in this
school election. Who of you who
have denied me the privilege of
entering your churches can say
as much? From the empty void
OIL echoless air no answer comes.
| sought to avoid making this
affair between myself and the
churches, and at one time the
school, a personal affair. Use
less! Personalities were drawn
into it. With what result? Let
the present and the future an
swer.
Someone will doubtless ask:
What do you hope to gain by
your present attitude? For my
self nothing, for others much. l
hope by acting independently of
all extraneous influences and a.
side from selfish motives to see
the school at West Liberty put
upon a firm business like basis,
neither ruled by sectarianism,
selfishness nor partisanship.
Upon what grounds do | base
this hope? Upon the fact that
the clans are no longer unit
ed. Tho old coalition is some
what broken. The Methodist
church and the Christian church
of this place were never united
until they had to marshall their
forces in -one solid phalanx in
order to quelch a powerful foe
that threatened to destroy the
social, moral and religious insti-
buttons of the town. A little CO.
terie of Methodists gathered in
their church, wereased, resoluted
and shed big briny tears until
they bethought themselves that
they had better invoke the aid
of the Campbellites ere the dra-
gon had gotten the entire town in
it's coils. They hied themselves
hither where their ,erstwhile re.
ligious foe happened to be assem-.
bled for worship. The Chair.
! maness of their indignation Com.
: mittee read the resolutions they
had adopted. What then? The
Complexities, thirsty for bloot
and secure behind their bulwarks
took up the fight. But what's the
use to descant further? Brief
: ly, | and others with me, Were
: indicted, tried, convicted
and executed, socially ant
religiously, worlds without end
without once being informed tina
: we were accused of any wrong
I never once being given a chance
| to offer an explanation, asl
: a question OF introduce a wit
ness.
But that affair, which is no
dead nor can ever die, shall no
standin my way when it come
I to working for the interest of tn
school. Whatever criticism
{ have heretofore offered was don,
because | saw that the children o
n this community were not gettinI
= that to which they were justl
: and lawfully entitled. 1t mat
5 tiers not who is at the helm of tn
school this and succeeding year
! | will criticise as freely and feai
{ lessly if criticism is deserved
II But my action in the school ele(
. ton this year was taken solel
Il with the hope that the manage
y ment of the school would be pu
5 upon so high a plane that ther
would be nothing to criticise.
J. would far rather commend tina
. condemn, and for this reason
{ lost my identity for the time b.
{ ing and joined forces with thos
: who have wronged and sti
e wrong me, well knowing that m
e wrongs have come to stay, bI
II hoping and believing that tn
&c welfare of the children of tn
II town would be better subserve
u by my action.
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