The Adair County news., 1914-04-01

favor of the Finn bill today, re-
Sulting in its passage by the house late
this afternoon by the vote of 46 to "a.
The measure seeks to increase the pow
erS Of the state railroad commission in
the matter of regulating railroad freight
rates, and the portrayal of the life and
character of Kentucky's martyred gov
ernOr by Congressman A. 0. Stanley
just before Il vote on the bill was TAX
en- is credited with having more to do
with its passage than anything that
had gone before The senate some
weeks ago postponed indefinitely fur
Their consideration of bill Identical in
point of text to the Finn measure that
passed the house this afternoon, but
advocates of the bill hope to bring
about reversal of the senate attitude.
Congressman Stanley spoke in the
house chamber. the occasion being the
unwilling of the Goebel monument that
stands at the foot Of the stone steps
leading to the capitol entrance. In an
eloquent tribute to the memory of the
man whose life was snuffed out by an
assassin's bullet, delivered in dramatic
style. Congressman Stanley enumerat-
eG the various occasions on which Goe-
bel stood on the side Of the people as
opposed To the corporations and held
up his example in that respect as one
worthy TO he followed.
Not a representative who voted on the
Finn measure this afternoon failed to
hear the eloquent speech of the con-
gresham from the Second district.
Had the advocates of the bill planned
the speech of Mr.. Stanley it could not
have been a stronger argument in ia
vOr of the Finn measure than it was.
Mr. Stanley's address WIS as follows:
Come to the bridal chamber, death;
Come to the mother when she feels
For the first time her firstborn's breath.
And YOU leave in your ruthless wake no
Sadder scene than this plteouS taxing OH
of William GOebel.
He sat for an hour in the seat of au-
thority gazed into the admiring eyes of
his assembled cOuntrymen, heard the tu-
multuouS applause of devoted thousands,
and then i'm the flower of his virile and
vigorous manhood he fell at the very
threshold Of the splendid vista of honor
and distinction that opened before him.
At this hour his varied and eventful ca
reer passes in panoramic view before us.
We see him starting upon life's journey
in poverty and Obscurity. behold the hard
ships he endured, the battles he fought,
the enemies he overthrow, till at last he
stands ct the summit like a crowned con-
oueror, and there before the laUrels have
withereC upon his victorious brow the
death damp gathers there, and before the
echoes of the cheering thrOng had died in
the streets Of the capital they are filled
with the lamentations for the dead.
Told in years, his sOjourn was brief
Yet this life is not to be measured by
the fleeing hours, but by heart thrObs,
by high aspirations and by noble deeds
In labor patiently endured, in actual
achievement, his was, after ali, a long,
long life.
Eminence was the immediate reward OF
his energy and attachments. born
leader, he marched at the head of the col
umn. honOred and trusted by his fellows
He never sought TO look down from a
lofty place upon struggling men below
He was always of them and for them
No man had a better opportunity TO tread
the primrose path to place and power. In
his youth he sat at the feet of the
Gamalinl of the bar. The professional as
sociate Of Stephenson and Carlisle, he suf-
fered not by the contrast. He knew the
whole intricate and tangled labyrinth OF
! the law.
Tempting retainers were offered him
| Great corporations eager to avail them
selves of his learning and talents rendered
their rich rewards: but. having tasted
poverty. he remained steadfastly the
champion Of the poor. Having endured
| wrongs, he continued the defender of the
| oppressed.
A single incident throws a flood of ligh
upon his whole career. On one occasion
he was visited at his old offices on the
| corner of Fourth and Scott streets by the
representative Of a great railroad sys
tenn He was told that he might name hi:
| own retainer if he would only agree t.
dedicate his learning. his experience anC
| his talents to the survice Of this grea
corporation Mr. Goebel listened in 81
lence He stood near second story win
| dow overlooking Scott street On the 9th
I er side a couple of ragged urchins were
playing in the sand left in the gutter by {
recent shower. He gazed intently at thu
! little fellows for some time before reply
| ing to the man who had just laid at hi
| feet a kings ransom as the price of hi
| desertiOn of the cause of the defenseles
| and the poor At last he said, Sir, l an
/ already employed by the other side.
| Who" said the astOnished magnate, "ha
4 retained you on the other side?' Then
pointing to the children in the street be
/ low, he declared: They. sir, are my eli
| ents cannot and I will not deser
! them"
That devotion which others have cen
! tered upon wife and child he consecrate'
| to his kind He was in very deed a ia
| Their to the fatherless, a refuge to tn
homeless a shelter in the time of storm
to all who were buffeted by misfortun
and disaster.
Labor, caught in the pitiless meshes o
| a federal Injunction, bOlted and barre
| from light and liberty, saw prison door
open wide and the clanking chains fal
| from its sinewy limbs at his command
He freed the highways of Kenton count
| from the petty tyrarts who had levied a
| inordinate toll upon the traveller H
| stood upon the great bridges that spal
the Ohio between Cincinnati and the sis
ter cities of Newport and Covington an
saw thousands Of fOotsorr to;lers wend
ing their weary way from the.cOttage an
! the tenement to the shop and the bench
He saw the mill hand in his overalls an
the factory girl in her tattered shawl sub
NIT to plumber as the price of passage
and he said to the bridge owner as to tn
exploiter Of the highway. You ma
charge reasonable toll, but you shall no
wiring an eXtortionate tribute from tn