The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-09-24

ton, giving their immediate families
reduced rates on railroads when visit
ing their soldier relatives in our army
camps.
FaVors Prohibition.
In my judgment, next to winning the
war itself and providing the necessary
revenue therefor, no other one thing
| Is of more vital Importance at this time
than prohibition-local, state and ma
tional TO me 1t has been one of the
most remarkable things connected with
! our great national life that our people
/ could sell the lives of our boys and our
girls, of our splendid manhood and
blessed womanhood, for the paltry
price of faw millions of revenue
and want to be understood here as
saying that we have been towards
among cowards--we have been SUI
of our duties and responsibilities as
fathers and mothers in waiting so long
to destroy the awful liquor traffic.
introduced a nationwide prohibit
ton plank at the State Republican
! Convention, June 18th, 1915, at Lexing-
ton, Ky. / also, in the same conven-
| ton, voted for statewide prohibition
plank introduced by Judge Ed c.
| O'Rear as the records of said conven-
ton show, and shall support both by
voice and vote the statewide prohibit
ton amendment to the State COnstitu-
! ton to be voted upon next year. My
views on this question since l have he
come voter has been consistent with
this record, and shall unhesitatingly
support all measures to make national
prohibition effectively enforceable
Since it will be the duty. of Congress
to enact laws putting national prohibi-
Tion into effect, a Staunch friend and
supporter of prohibition should he sent
to the United States Senate from Ken
lucky at this time.
Favors Woman Suffrage.
And yet another of the great Ques-
tiOns before our Congress for settle
ment, which trust may be settled ere
this campaign is closed-and that by
the present Congress now in session
is that of woman suffrage. l have ar
IDENTIFY stood for this from the time of
my life rs n schOolbOy, and through all
the years of my manhood have been
an advocate of equal suffrage for WON.
en-, therefore it is no new question to
me, as am no recent convert thereto
and l shall support this amendment to
our Federal Constitution.
Marvellous National Growth.
A hundred years ago we were ma
ton of only few millions of people
and worth but a few billions of dol
lars almost bankrupt as n nation, hut
with the great opportunities that lay
out before us, with the interchangeable
energy, skill and perseverance oi
young Americans, we took advantag,
of our position in the new world, sur
rounded as we were by almost immeaS
urable natural resources, and builded
as no nation in the world are built he
fore, we grew in that century just past
from that handful of cOlonistS, prin
cipully upon our eastern Shores until
today we are II nation of more than
hundred millions of people, and OF
whose flag-the Stars and Stripes-tht
sun never sets.
But this is not the marvellous thing
regarding our growth, that we have in
creased in population-in strong anC
hardy manhood and womanhood-th6
thing at which the world has marveleG
most is our remarkable accumulation
of wealth. We have grown from q
little bankrupt nation Of one hundred
years ago until today we-SiX per cent
of the worlds population as we are
own more than One-third of all the
worlds wealth. The larger part of thi!
wealth has been accumulated in mos
of our great institutions represented
by our great agricultural interests, oul
great manufacturing industries, oul
wonderful mining properties, and oul
great transportation SyStemS-tht
greater portion of this wealth has beer
accumulated and builded in the pas
half century. The greater part of tina
time this nation was under the control
7 in so far as its national governmental
affairs were concerned, of the Repub
lican party. All of the great principle!
of that party for which / still stant
are, first of all, equal suffrage to all
protection to American labor anC
American Industries, and sound anC
unquestioned monetary system.
II is to the soundness of these grea
fundamental principles that Americi
owes the greater part of her wonder
full growth, and II is upon these basi,
principles that America must build dur
in the rehabiltating period following
the devastation of this terrible war
We must make sane preparation TO
the solution of the problems, divers,
in their compleXity and almost immeas
urable in their magnitude, which viii
press for solution Immediately follow
ing the conclusion of peace. We mus
bring the Government within the liml
tatiOns and principles of the COnstitu
tiOn In time of peace and re-establisl
policies which bind up the wounds o
the war, administer the affairs of tn,
Government with the greatest econ
omy, promote prosperity, increase OH
strength ut home and abroad, proven
and prohibit the further spread Of un
due sOclallstic tendencies toward Fed
, eral ownership, which Is exploited b!
some ms panacea for every real q
fancled III of society, and as qulckl.
ms possible set these great principle
In motion that will place the nation