Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-07-22
BLAZE.

crops IN this section ale me
but just now badly in the weeds
on account Of wet weater, Oats
are extra fine but are waiting for
sunshine weather to be harvested. !
The recent floods greatly dam +
aged crops in the valley OF the
North Fork and its aftiuent
streams.
Yes; the square Of corn that
FAIRPLAY reports on Grassy
Creek must be the finest in our
part of the State; at least, it
ought to be. But farmers can
not get sixty tons of stable ferti-
lizer for every seven-eighths ofan
acre, even though they plant
small crops and do intensive
farming. What we need in eX-
periments in grain production is
a manure that is practicable for
every farmer for his every acre.
We will produce one hundred
bushels of corn on one acre OF
land by such crop rotation and
soil improvement as we can all
practice every year on all we
plant.
(Adyertisement)
We are wondering if Mr.. Sui
Ivan actually counted those five
thousand Democrats who have
tabooed three terms of office, and
the alleged seven thousand who
have condemned life tenure in
office, and the seven hundred who
have a knife up their sleeves fol-
his opponent. He is aspiring t.
the wrong office. Census take
is the job he wants. Notice how
carefully and accurately he ha
counted and tabulated those vo
tiers without getting them mike,
up. We commend him to tn
appointive powers for Superin
tendent Of the next census. Blu
a great many people are super
stitious and queer, you know.
great lot of them are whisperin
it around that Henry just guesse
at those figures, and that eve
his guess was inspired by hi
political dreams. Now while W
are willing to admit that it
mean for people to talk abor
a fellow that way we must COZ
fess that we do not know of an
of those five thousand and seve
thousand and seven hundre
Democrats in this section of Il
district. Oh, of course, he migl
have dreamed it they all say !
did.
There is a class Of people
mostly office-seekers who see
to regard public Offices as perso
al rights. ITS somebody else
time, they claim. They 10,
upon an Office as a means of ma
ing a living or making some mo
ey and seem to think that eve
one has a right to get rake
it in successive order. But that
not the intention of.the law in t
creation of Offices. The man w
can best execute the duties of
Office is the man whom the Ia
contemplates. And that is t
man who is selected by commul
ties, municipalities and Stat
whose people have the public
terest at heart. The individU
is nothing; the State, county,
district is every thing. The lon
err an efficient official perforr
the duties of an Office, the bett
he understands the Requirement
and the more good he can do f
his constituents. Was not Ke
tucky's voice in the Americ;
Congress more potent and effe
tive when we had Blackburn
Breckenridge, Beck, Crittende
and Clay in the halls Of cur N
tional Legislature? And VIII,
There were two reasons: first, b
cause they were supremely fit
for Congress by natural endo
ment and education; and, secon
ly because our people kept the
there for terms unnumbere
most of them during their liv,
Note the course of the N,
England States: when those pr
pie get an able man in Congr(
they keep him there as long as
lives, or as long as they can
duce him to serve.
Now this policy is as true
any other Office as it is Of &C