Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-05-07


the future far as human eye could
see, caught the wonders of the
world and the, glories yet to be, 3"
read the unborn future and blaz-
ed the way to the free navigation
of the Mississippi and the inev-
table acquisition of the Louisi-
ana territory. Their rifles won
the battle of New Orleans, and
their rich red blood, freely shed,
was the precious incense through
whose smoke Texas was adder to
the stars. In the great conflict of
81. divided between allegiance
and love. some went to each
army, and wherever they march
ed or fought or died, they bore
themselves as men. And when
the shock of strife was over. the
Commonwealth they loved was
the first of all states to blot out
from her statute books every law
born OF the hate of war, and open
ed wide her arms and babe her
children come home again, and
soothe their wounds and rest
their bruised heads upon the low
ing bosom of Il mother who loved
them both alike.
Close To Nature
This is the history. lingering
ike an inspiration; this the en-
yironment of which the Kentuc~
khan has wrought his destiny a
home. The currents of the larg-
r world have often passed him
by. immigration has made small
IMPRESS on either his character o.
stock. Living close to nature,
stimulated by the soils strong
touch, building home and lovin:
it, not given to large accumula-
ton, drinking the sweetness O.:
the simple life, he has preserved
1t once his independence and hi
high ideals. Proud of his Com
monWealth, jealous of his honor
quick of temper, but quicker tc
forgive; free from envy, malice.
hate, strangely free from pollut-
ing the touch of that sordid com
mercialism which, in the avrice OF
graceless greed, multiplies/riches
in the sweat, of unremunerated
labor and gathers wealth through
the sufferings of unrequitted toll.
loving justice, doing equity, build
ing on the conservatism of an es-
tablished law, he has kept the
faith as it came down from the
father.
Today, well across the TIRES
hold of century for the sweep
of whose charging visions the
past affords no measure. this
Commonwealth founded in faith
and builded in courage, faces q
radiant morning, big with prom
lse, bright with hope. 1t is very
precious privilege to be called toI
the kingdom for such a time-to
be privileged to participate in the
great movements that make for
a broader and nobler material
development, more abundant
abiding destiny, a richer impulse
and a deeper patriotic purpose,
for loftier standards of public and
private life, for sterner tests OF
personal and corporate honesty,
for civic righteousness and truth
and Justice regnant and supreme.
Kentucky's Privilege
And here today, in the laI1oed
associations of these happy
scenes, recalling radiant DAYS
that were and glorious days
ahead, as we gather from the
corners of the earth in loving
communion III q place that Will
always be-tu all of us a commonI
home, the Kentuckian at home
gives you this pledge, that bury
ing all the bitterness and rancor1
of the other older days-if bitter
ness and rancor there have beenI
forgetting all that has been I'M
just, forgiving all that has been
unlind-if any such has been
not in anger nor in strife, not in
discord or confusion, freed of |
faction and purged of selfish pur-
pose, in a spirit of high devotion,
with deep convictions and unfal-
tering faith, looking always upI
and never down, constructing,
not destroying, in love and fell
lowship and fraternity, we layI
the honest and unselhsh service
of loyal and devoted hearts and
lives on the common altar of our
common faith, as we set the new
Kentucky forward on her endless