The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-04-14

herentiy belong 70 the Kentucky child
have been purchased for song by
foreign capital and will be left TO the
child OF other states. There are Ked-
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 we're formerly
owned by their fathers. We must In
wife foreign capital and give It an OBJ
portunity 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
q fundamental proposition and one OF
monumental Importance to every citi-
zen of the state. About rs 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
gigantic inheritance and opportu-
nifty. We have the climate, the show
er, 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 adj
ditional labor After all the perma
nent producing capacity of the soil
the basis of all ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
finally upon the intelligence of the
farmer who cultlvates II. believe in
every sane and democratic effort in
the interest of rural uplift and in
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
prices for the products of their labor.
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
building 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 If he
could instruct each farmer in Ken
lucky for twenty minutes in the SIM
pie 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 75 cents per bushel the in
crease would be worth $12,600,000,
enough to pay the deficit in the treas.
ury of Kentucky about five or six
times, enough to build s1,400 school
building in every rural school district
in Kentucky, and enough, IL transmut-
ed into private and pubic improve
ments and into human efficiency, to
solve many of the vital problems of
life and to meet many of the industrial
needs Of our state. This twenty min
utes Is one of Kentucky's opportuni-
ties which will be lost to the state
unless saved through the agricultural
education of its people. II am elect
ed governor II 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.
welcome with enthusiasm the
good roads awakening that is now
sweeping the state. II is impossible
10 estimate its meaning to the moral,
and industrial development of Ken
lucky. have always been an earn
est advocate of good roads, and If
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-
vict labor system, and the reorganiza-
tion of the penitentiaries and asylums
along modern and economic and hui
manitarian lines.
The greater Kentucky can not be
brought into existence by some magic
process. 1t can not be set up and
nailed together like house. II must
grow. II we would maintain a fp'l
grown Kentucky we must attain unto
a full growh citizenship. and II we
would attain unto full grown citi-
zenship, we must attain unto a full
grown school system, developed to the
highest degree of civic, social and In
dustrial 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 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
Independence contemplates universal
education. II makes the public school
system and other character-mal0ing
forces a necessity and an implied part
OF its organism. The Declaration of
independence is by nature the great
est educational program that has ever
been enacted by body Of people. Its
own life and perpetuity depends upon
universal intelligence and righteous