Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-01-14

see-four good horses and a wagon
for example with four horses at S150
apiece, $500; the cost of shOeing and
harness is to be considered, the whole
will cost not less than $1,000, adding
in the cost OF maintaining these horses
at $500 month is $500 a year and
you have to add that to the original
cost. In six years your thousand and
horses and wagon is gone, as they will
be worn out. The maintenance will
cost you not less than $500 a year
$500 per day, We may say that the
same team will do double the work
over a macadam road as they will do
over 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 marke
| and cents, there is no better invest
ment to the producer than in the max
ing of cheap and convenient mean:
| 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 peeunia
! ry or personal benefit, either in emolu
Il re nf off Il
! 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 q
| boss, the man who votes for money
in hand is menace to the liberty Of
free people.
/ This government rests upon the dis
| interested devotion to high ideals Of
/ citizenship. 1t is the foundation upor
which the republic rests because 6
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 hundred and fifty years oil
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 anC
his family grouped about him, his head
bowed simply and reverently asking
God to guide him through the night
and arising in the fear of that sam,
Ged at dawn to take up the simple
tasks of the day. He votes of NJ
thought of profit to himself, but FOL
the good of his family and the homo
of his country and the glory of hi
God. This is the power upon which
this republic rests and must foreve
rest.
Now We talk about this simple life
it's high ideals, and its noble purposes
and yet there is in Kentucky a con
tinual exodus from the country to thu
town. | make no warfare upon tn,
city. | have lived in towns the mos
Of my life, but what | mean to say
that what we need is more good PEG
pie on the farms in the country.
will cheaper the costs of living il
town. 1t will bring more customers
and new life and new capital to on
great cities.
1t is an invincibie instinct for mel
TO seek the society of their fellows, L
gather as We have gathered here to
, day in great multitudes. 1t is as ma
tural as for cartridges to gather il
covies in the field, or birds in flock
in the sky. 1t is essential to the hal
piness, the mental and moral welfar
of mankind, just so much as food o
clothing The thing that has d.
stroyed rural life, the thing that ha
depopulated fertile lands is the lionel
ness and isolation of life in the couI
try. Our girls and boys who live i
E rural districts are literally maroone
in the winter without access to tn
$ postoffice, the church or the schoo
t or to the doctor in time of sickness
a or to the store for the bare necess
t ties of life in any other way than o
t q mule, belly deep in the mire. Gu