The Adair County news., 1913-03-12
Never Bond Her.

Our constitution says: equal rights
to all and exclusive privileges to none"
We don't want anything that is I'M
constitutional, but we as great COM
mon people do want our rights and
the time is here that we can obtain
them if we will all fall in line and
work to our goal. A man of today, it
matters not how poor he may be, if
only dressed in a pair of fifty cents
overalls can do as much good at the
polls as Rockefeller or Vanderbilt.
Now want to say in regard to the
bond business that the Adair County
News said in an article week before
last that the Taylor county bond bust
ness had been exaggerated and misrep-
resented. Now if this was hurled at
me, as | believed it was, l have just
this to say, that the man or set of
men that says that l misrepresented
anything in regard to the Taylor
county bonds tells a malicious and
willful falsehood. 1 have been re-
ferred to in belittling way more than
once since the agitating Of bonds has
been III progress, but | am just now as
was on the beginning. L am in
favor of reasonable road tax to be
expended in each Magisterial district
from whence it came for the better
ment of its own roads. Now fellow
citizens you all know that is a fair
proposition, let every man, rich or
poor, white or black, get the benefit
of what he pays, and do away with
taxation without representation. Now
there is clique in Adair county COM
posed principally of moneyed men that
are continually trying to get their
fingers in the great common peoples
eyes and lead, drive or bluff them into
submission and the agitation of the
bond business is the hardest lick that
the great common people has ever been
struck, but fellow citizens we as a
body can rise up and knock such an
insult into Oblivion.
The Adair County News says that
the lighting of the bond business only
delays it, that it will surely come and
it also says that Adair county will
bloom as rose and not until then.
"Preposterous," obnoxious. l for
one will not stand for such a thing.
Fellow citizens what will you do?
Come out of your hiding, come to the
rescue of the nearest and dearest place
on earth to you, the place where our
fathers, mothers and dear ones are
buried and say that we will not suffer
our own dear good old county that
has fed and clothed US from infancy
to the present day diSgraced by hav-
ing bond placed on her. Stop, think
just for one moment. What did that
great and good man, Judge A. Z. Sal
lee, say in regard 10 bonds when they
wanted to vote bonds to build our
courthouse? HE said he would die
before he would suffer such a calami-
ty to fall Oh the people" What about
Judge Sale? Everybody knowt that
there never lived or dieda better man,
honest, upright, fearless friend to
everybody. To know him was to love
him, and Adair county never produced
a more loyal son and no other county
ever produced a betted Judge. What
did the Hatcher correspondent in his
last letter say about bonds? He said:
EDear editor, il the rest of my letter
goes to the waste basket please pub
lish these few lines which were as fol-.
lows: Never bond your county for
anything" Now Hatcher is located
in Taylor county and this was pen
ciled from man that had tried the
bond business and had seen the calam-
ity that befell his county so he warned
his sister county, Adair, not to suffer
such calamity to fall on her. The
Adair County News says: that I'M
fortunately Taylor county failed to
hold her interest at par in the enter
prise and became victim Of circum-
stances" Such might be the way if
Adair should be gulled into bonding
herself, and | should think it would
be sorrowful epitaph to be placed
on the grave stone of old Adair coun-
to.
unfortunately victim of circum-
stances" Now fellow citizens study
the situation closely yourselves and
help put an epitaph on old Adair coun-
ty to read like this:
I'VE have met the enemy and they
are ours"
C.|G Jeffries,
Knifiey, KY.