Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-08

herently belong to the Kentucky child
have been purchased for song by
foreign capital and will be left to the
child OF other states. There are Ken
lucky boys of the finest human stock
who are In need of the comforts OF
life and who are today working In
great coal mines that were formerly
owned by their fathers. We must In
vite foreign capital and give II an op.
portinity to work in our state. but II
is more important for us to get rid Of
so much bitter and selfish politics. get
down to business and wake somebody
up IN Kentucky.
Pledges Aid to the Farmers.
Universal progress begins and ends
with the soil. We must love and in
telligently cultivate the farm II we
would succeed In building up a great.
er Kentucky. Improved agriculture is
fundamental proposition and one of
monumental importance to every citi-
zen of the state. About as per cent
of the people of Kentucky are engaged
in agriculture The development of
our state depends largely upon the
success of the farmer-the most i'm.
portant citizen of the land We have
a gigantic inheritance and opportu-
nifty. We have the climate, the show.
err, the sunshine, the soil and the peo,
pie. but the leading farmers and agri-
cultural experts of the state tell us
that we are not producing more than
one-half of what we should produce
and that the yield can be doubled on
the same acreage, with but little ad.
ditional labor After all the perma
nent producing capacity of the soil.
the basis of all prosperity-depends
finally upon the intelligence of tho
farmer who cultivates 1t. I believe in
every sane and democratic effort In
the interest of rural uplift and In a
state policy that will aid in building
up the rural schools, in constructing
good roads, in disseminating agricul
tural information among the masses
in cooperating with the United States
government in its endeavors to i'm.
prove agriculture, In increasing the
productive capacity of the people and
in prompting them to develop commu
nifty organizations that will aid the
people of rural Kentucky in establish
ing markets and in getting good
pii'Co 1Oi NilC vi tnclI lhDOi.
With little effort we can double the
earning capacity Of our people, and
when we do this we will have more
money for the necessaries of life, for
the comforts of the home, for the
of roads, churches. and for
private and public improvements OF
all kinds. heard the lamented Sea
man A. Knapp, the great rural uplift
chairman and worker, say that II he
could instruct each farmer in Ken
lucky for twenty minutes In the sim.
Pile fundamentals OF corn culture, and
II they would faithfully do what he
asked them to. he could increase the
annual corn yield FIVE bushels per
acre. This would increase the annual
corn yield in the state 1S.000,000 bush.
els, and at rs cents per bushel the in,
crease would be worth $4,000, 900,
enough to pay the deficit in the treas.
ury of Kentucky about FIVE or SIX
times, enough to build a $1,400 school
building in every rural school district
In Kentucky, and enough, IL transmit.
ed into private and pubic improve.
ments and into human efficiency, to
solve many of the vital problems OF
AAiC diu W hlCtL VI llt
needs of our state. This twenty min.
utes is one of Kentucky's opportuni.
tics which will be lost to the state
unless saved through the agricultural
education of its people. If | am elect
ed governor | am going to do every
thing within my power to promote the
agricultural interests of the state and
TO assist the farmers in working out
their complex problems.
Good Roads Enthusiast.
L welcome with enthusiasm the
good roads awakening that is now
sweeping the state. II is impossible
to estimate its meaning to the moral.
and industrial development of Ken
lucky | have always been an earn
est advocate of good roads, and if Il
am elected governor shall have spe
cial interest in doing all | can to pro-
mote the building of good roads in
every section of the state. also IA
vor the abolition of the present con
Wet labor system, and the reorganiza
ton of the penitentiaries and asylums
along modern and economic and hu.
lines.
The greater Kentucky can not ba
brought into existence by some magic
process. 1t can not be set up and
nailed together like a house. 1t must
grow II we would maintain a full
grown Kentucky, we must attain unto
a full growL citizenship, and II we
would attain unto a full grown citi.
zenship. we must attain unto a full
grown school system, developed to the
highest degree OF civic, social and In.
dustria efficiency. The work OF devel.
oping schools that inspire leadership,
schools that are human nurseries
where sound ideas grow and individ.
ualities flourish, is fundamental re-
form and the hope OF a democracy.
When our brave forefathers found
ed this government upon human ex-
preston they embodied the thought
OF the public school in the organism
Of the republic The Declaration of
lndependence concentrates universal
II makes the public school |
system and o!he- cho~n"ta~.aaking
forces a necessity and an implied part |