The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1913-09-18
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to become suffragette.' She pre-.
sented some arguments that were
convincing. As we men have made
pretty bad mess of trying to keep
liquor away from our men folks. I
guess we had better let the women
give us boost and shove it off the
map by their vote. We can be as
sured of that fact. that when wo-
men get the right to vote all over
the country that the liquor traffic
is doomed. The writer believes
that it isa mans jon to run the
government, but the liquor traffic
is bigger problem than we can
handle alone, and unless there is
no other way to get rid of it., we
had better let the women help.
No doubt all have heard the
fable of the grass-hopper and the
bee. The grass-hopper danced and
had a merry time all summer,
while the bee was busy every mo-
ment, laying up for the winter to
come. The cold weather came, and
the grass hopper went to the bee
and asked for something to eat.
The bee asked the grass hopper
what he had done all summer, ana
when the bee received the answer
of how the grass. hopper had whiIed
away his time so fcolishly, he told
him that he would have to starvs
then. Some are working hard
every day and getting ready for
the winter to come while Others are
Willing away their time and loaf.
ing around the stores and depOts
and other places. The man vast.
ing his time now will not have
much to eat. and his home will not
he warm and comfortable. He will
complain of the hard times, and
will be going to the college and
asking for some clothes, and his
children will have to stay out of
school in the cod weather for lack
of shoes or other necessities. They
will go to the stores and ask for
credit, and tell pitiful stories of the
poverty and suffering in the home.
The wife and children will have to
suffer the most, ard the man will
exc out his way somehow till warm
Things are going to be
awfully high this winter, corn, po-
tatoes, meat and other necessities,
and now is the time to prepare.
There has been great demand for
work these past few months, and
farmers have told us that they can
hardly get men to work for them.
And when they can get them, they
will only work two or three days
out of the week. The other days
they loaf and idle around. And
these same kind of men are the
ones that spend the most for IL
Iuor. Money burns a hole in
heir pocket till they can spend
it. John Ploughmdn says, "Many
A man has a hole under his nose
and his money runs into it. He
is not a blacksmith, but he has il
spark in his throat and all the
aloon.keepers' barrels can't put
It out" There are men that
will work hard all week and re-
'eive their wages, then they will
urn right around, and in few
hours of revelery and debauchery,
waste evAry cent of il. Three
weeks ago some men came IN
rom below where they had been
working. They We're all poor
men, but each one had a bottle
n his pocket, and all he could
larry inside of HIM. They owed
tore debts, but were not able to
,ay them. Those same men are
living from hand to mOunth, and
aking no thought of the hard
winter to come. There is IL
'roverb that runs like this: she
gho buys that which he does not
eed, will some day need that which
Ie cannot buy" When | bought
ny home there were almost enough
mpty whiskey bottles on the place
o have paid for it. with no telling
ow many more had been emptied
efore those were. No wonder
ONE men are never able to own a
ONE or have anything. They spend
all for whiskey, and so are never
bile to have anything A hard
'orking man hasn't time to he
,afer and bum. It's the class
ave just spoken of.