Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-03-02

see-four good horses and a wagon
for example with four horses at $3.50
apiece $780, 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 year and
you have to add that TO the original
cost. In six years your thousand and
horses and wagon is gone, as they viii
| be worn out The maintenance will
cost you not less than $500 year
$500 per day. We may say thar the
same team win do double the work
! over a macadam road as they will do
| over q DIRT road SO that the farmer
In the item Of four horse team, wagon
aud 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 70 the
market, leaving out the pleasure OF
! travelling over the macadam roads to
himself aud TO his family. leaving out
the advantages 10 the children In at
tending school, and his family attend
I Ing church. leifiGs our the features
| Of bringing him closer 10 the market
or 10 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 cony u.ent means
of bringing the farmers cCnmoC,tio1
TO the market
But let us take a broader and higher
view. Every man who casts his ballot
In the hope OF receiving some pecunla'
ry or personal benefit. either In emolu
ments OF Office or some pecuniary ad
vantage Is menace. BY that ! mean
that the man who votes simply 10
keep up some political organization
the man who votes at the call OF a
boss. the idan who votes for money
In hand is a menace to the liberty Of
free people.
This government rests upon the dis
Interested devotion to high ideals Of
citizenship. II is the foundation upor
which the republic rests because {
majority absolutely rules in this coun
/ try. And whenever that majorit,
, ceases to be honest this government
will topple like a house of cards.
What has preserved this govern
ment for hundred and fifty years o.
more? ! will tell you: The slmpl,
citizen seated In a cane bottom chat
on a rag carpet before an open fire
! place. with Bible on his knees ant
2 his family grouped about him. his hea,
I bowed simply and reverently askinl
, God to guide him through the night
, and arising in the fear OF that sam,
God at dawn TO take up the simpl,
tasks OF the day. He votes OF NJ
| thought OF profit to himself. but 70
the good OF his family and the homo
? Of his country and the glory OF hi
/, God. This Is the power upon whicl
I 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 con
iinual exodus from the country to III
town. | make no warfare upon TN
! city. have lived in towns the mos
/ Of my life. but what mean to say
A that what We need IL more good pee
|, pie on the farms In the country.
will cheaper the costs OF living 4
. town. Il will bring more customers
and new life and new capital to on
great cities.
II is an invlncible instinct for me
e TO seek the society OF their fellows, {
|. gather as We have gathered here L
. day In great multitudes. II Is as nj
tural as for cartridges to gather 1
, covles In the field. or birds In flock
;, in the sky. II is essential to the hal
piness. the mental and moral welfar
! OF mankind. just so much as food Q
! clothing. The thing that has d,
= stroyed rural life, the thing that Ia
! depopulated fertile lands is the lionel
. ness and isolation OF life In the ooui
I try. Our girls and boys who live
e rural districts are literally maroone
2 In the winter without access to III
: postofiice. the church or the schoo
u or TO the doctor In time OF sickness
a or TO the store for the bare neeess
v ties OF life In any other way than 0
u mule. belly deep in the mire OF