Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-16

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over a dirt road. So that the farmer
in the item of four horse team, wagon
and driver saves at least one dollar
per day by the use Of macadam road.
When the farmers have calculated the
saving of one item Of transportation,
the taking of their products to the
market, leaving out the pleasure Of
travelling over the macadam roads to
himself and to his family, leaving out
the advantages to the children in at
tending school, and his family attend
ing church, leaving out the features
of bringing him closer to the market
or to the mill on the basis of dollars
and cents, there is no better invest
ment to the producer than in the max.
ing Of cheap and convenient means
OF bringing the farmers commodities
to the market
But let US take broader and higher
view. Every man who casts his ballot
in the hope Of receiving some pecunia.
ry or personal benefit, either in emolu.
ments Of Office or some pecuniary adj
vantage is a menace. By that mean
that the man who votes simply to
keep up some political organization,
the man who votes at the call Of a
boss, the man who votes for money
in hand is a menace to the liberty OF
a free people.
This government rests upon the dis
interested devotion to high ideals OF
citizenship. 1t is the foundation upon
which the republic rests because a
majority absolutely rules in this coun
try. And whenever that majority
ceases to be honest this government
will topple like house of cards.
What has preserved this govern
ment for a hundred and fifty years OF
more? / will tell you: The simple
| citizen seated in a cane bottom chail
on rag carpet before an open fire
place, with a Bible on his knees ant
his family grouped about him, his head
bowed simply and revereDtly asking
God to guide him through the night
and arisinaain the fear of that same
God at dawn to take up the simple
tasks of the day. He votes OF nc
thought of profit to himself, but fol
the good Of his family and the honor
of his country and the glory OF his
God. This is the power upon which
this republic rests and must forevel
rest.
Now we talk about this simple life
t It's Nigh iGteaiihs, ami is noble purposes
and yet there is in Kentucky a con.
tinual exodus from the country to the
town. / make no warfare upon the
| city. | have lived in towns the most
of my life, but what | mean to say
hat what we need is more good peo'
| pie on the farms In the country. II
will cheaper the costs of living in
town. It will bring more customers
and new life and new capital to our
great cities.
II is an inyincible instinct for men
10 seek the society of their fellows, tG
gather as we have gathered here to
lay in great multitudes. It is as ma
ural as for partridges to gather In
covies in the field, or birds in flockS
in the sky. It is essential 10 the hap
piness, the mental and moral welfare
Of mankind, just so much as food oil
clothing. The thing that has dc
stroyed rural life, the thing that has
depopulated fertile lands is the loneli
ness and isolation of life in the coun
try. Our girls and boys who live il
rural districts are literally marooneC
10 the winter without access to tn,
! postofIice, the church or the school
or to the doctor in time of sickness
or to the store for the bare necessi
ties of life in any other way than oil
a mule, belly deep in the mire. oul
boys and girls simply will NOT be KEEP
in the rural districts ten miles from
any town under such conditions, how
ever much you may talk about the nc
BILE life of the country 1t is too oftel
the most lonesome existence on earth
If you wish to live in the country AM