Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-10-16


now on that we have ever known be-
fore. Our county, as you all know,
is not, strictly speaking, an agricul-
tural county, but its wealth consists
largely in the mineral and natural re-
sources. To lose them is practically
to lose all. To hold them means
wealth and prosperity for you and
your posterity after you. Let us !
beg of you, get together as one man
and put forth one supreme effort to
forever remove fromAour land titles
the clouds which have so long hung
over them and kept capital from seek
ing investment here.
In the absence of feets that can be
depended upon, shall not at this time
impute sinister motives to any one in
particular, but it is more than likely
that there is a concerted effort on
the part of number Of persons, who
are behind the Sewell heirs and back
ing them up in their Undertaking. If
so be, it is only question of time un-
til the mash behind which these buc-
cancers now conceaI'their identity
will be torn away, and they will
stand before the people in all their
infamy and perfidy. Our quarrel is
right; our cause Is justand,
Thrice armed is he who hath his
quarrel just, and he but naked though
locked up in steel whose conscience
by injustice is corrupted
The people OF this county have been
exceedingly generous tosall those who
have sought to develop It. They
granted to the Central kentucky Nat
ural Gas Company right of way for
it to lay a 10 inch pipe Iine distance
of about thirty miles Through this
county; and in many Instances ths
line ran through the farmers corn
field, through his garden, and some
times through his best land; still,
the farmers and land owners permit
ed the4ne to go through their lands
at 2 mere nominal cost to the com
pang, and not in a single snitance did
the company have to resort to condem
Nation proceedings. And now the
kentucky Pipe Line Company of Lou
isyille is laying another 12-inch line
alongside of the line already built
and the farmers and land owners
through whose lands the line run.
are graciously permitting them to dC
so.
In all the operations and develop
ments that have. so far taken place
in this county there has never beer
q acstrike.2afNo pIantif sd dlsaasi.it,
bombs, no use of the torch; no disa
greement between employer and EN-
ployee; neither has the property o
any company or corporation ever beal
molested or in any way Interfere
, with or disturbed in this county: bu
l on the contrary, the property of com
! pan,es and corporations is protecte
! and their rights safeguarded by tn
= citizens and the courts just the sam
as that of the individual. But in spit
of ali these facts the two pipe lin
I companies ! have just referred t
Il have for some unexplained reason
Il steadiastly refused to buy the gas pre-
: duced by the wells of this county, ur
J. less it be that they are trying to pla
e a game of freeze out with a view {
/ getting control Of our natural +,
Il sources themselves.
II My countrymen, in your veins flo
o the pure Anglo-SaXon blood. You al
II the descendants of the pioneers {
u North Carolina and Virginia. You
'e ancestors sought and settled her
u wher this was a wilderness. They Il,
: Qulred title to the lands in this coui
L e from the sovereign authority Of b
Sc State. They drove out the savage II
dian and the wild beasts, cleart
v away portions Of the forest and esta
u lished for themselves and famlll
/ homes. They lived the simple lii
u and on the lands you now possess, b
II Qucathed from them to you, rest the
It ashes and bones. They left to you
II honorod name.
'u win you show yourselves wort
!" to he called the sons of such mob
Ut sires? Peradventure their immolt
ny spirits are lowering over us now al
eS rs worthy sons of such illustrlo
e- lineage let us protect our valleys q
''u hills made sacred by the sepulchre
cn the pioneer, those valleys and hi
nc haliowcd by the uncolIined bones
our patriot fathers.
Is a few years ago stood in the va
81 of the old home of General Rob,
rc- Il. Lee at Arlington, Virginia, and 10
'uF ed across the Potomac at the City
.u- Washington in all its cffulgence a
'o' beauty, My heart thrilled as | loC
''' ed at the towering marble and gr,
1t itc of my country's Capitol, and
g" mist gathered in my eyes as, standi
o'u there, thought Of its tremendC
" Significance and the powers there
c'- sembled, and the responsibilities tn
centered, It's president, It's congress,
'"s courts, its gathered treasure, its
'' my, its navy, and It's 9O.OOO,0OO Of (
y" izens. 1t seemed to me the best 4
" mightiest sight that the sun could (
y" in its wheeling course, this maies