Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — A Kentuckian’s View. [ARTICLE]

A Kentuckian’s View.

Thebe are half a million men idle in Germany, and this will result in increased emigration. ——— Thebe is no cure for anarchy. It is a hopeless form of insanity and pre vention must be relied on to preserve society from its evils. The persistent prosperity which has penetrated to every nook and corner of the United States is the most discouraging features of the democratic outlook. The chaplains of both the Senate and the House of Representatives are blind. There are phases of life in congress that to pray for their reform would make a sensation. The anarchist speakers are announcing that anarchy cannot be stamped out. Perhaps not. We cannot obliterate an abstraction but anarchists can be put out. This is the season of the year when a man’s wife is tempted to combine a little lesson in economy with her Christmas gift and present him a bargain counter box of cigars. The Isthmian Canal Commission has reported: the Hay-Pauncefote treaty has been ratified; Senator Morgan has reintroduced his canal bill. The time has come for Uncle Samuel to begin digging. A bepbesentative Tennessee newspaper says: “Repeal the law which gives the navy prize money.’’ That paper is evidently in need of a good Washington correspondent. The law was repealed by the fifty-sixth congress. Mr. Roosevelt says in the case of Cuba reciprocity is imperatively demanded by “weighty reasons of morality and national interest.” Sugar stands in the way, but Harrison and McKinley gave us free sugar and the duty was restored by the Dingley bill only to make good a deficiency created by a democratic administration. It may be expected that the employe who performs his work with the full knowledge that only the excellence of his performance will insure his continued employment will do more conscientious, painstaking work than the man who knows that regardless of his methods his “pull” will insure his retention in office. Those people who expected the President to indulge demagogism in handling the subject of “trusts” are disappointed and yet what would be more wise than the President’s recommendations, first make public the affairs of these great corporations that all may judge their evils and then proceed intelligently to their correction.

A DISTINGUISHED French Engineer predicts that in ten years coal mining will not pay. There is a strong tendency toward liquid fuel with petroleum as the chief ingredient. Scientists and inventors are giving it much attention. The statement in the President’s message that “The men who seek gains not by genuine work of head or hands but by gambling in any form are always a menace not only to themselves but to others,” is not a flattering tribute to the gentlemen who do business in Wall Street.

“I would like to know how many shots the Indiana people think it takes to kill a Kentuckian,” remarked a resident of the PennyrHe to a Journal man after having read a contemporary’s say on thearrest of Berry Howard, as one of the conspirators. “First,” said he, “it was Holland Whitaker; then Henry Youtsey; then Dave Powers; then Jim Howard and along somewhere on the line comes in Governor Taylor and secretary of State Finley. Now the Democrat, like many of the passion blinded yellow journals of the blue grass and moonshine state, sebs only the Democratic side of the question, at long range, and actually knows more about it than men who were on the scene. What do I f,hink about it? Well it was a very deplorable affair, but down in Kentucky they haug a horse thief. Now on the same line, where does the wrong come in shooting a thief of a governor’s chair. “Taylor was elected by 3,865 majority on the face of the returns, but the Goebel machine had the counting and the deciding of the contest. Goebel had worked for years to get the affair in the condition to put him in the governor’s chair and said often during his campaign, from the stump, ‘oh just let them vote,’ meaning the republi cans. ‘We have the counting to do and they did. I happen to be personally acquainted with Governor Taylor, having known him from my cbildhood. Ho was a political foeman worthy arty s' eel, but a cleaner man I never knew; a self made man and far ! more suitable to have been governor, ] than Goeble. “I am not acquainted with Berry j Howard, that among the I men of bis county the spirit, to hide i and fire on an enemy does not exist j True be was arrested, but he wanted to bo. Hal he so desired ho could' have called to his aid thousands who ; could have defied the state militia for years. But Mr. Howard said he was ready to stand trial no.v than prejudice was dying out, and that most of the SIOO,OOO appropriated by a Democratic legislature to convict, just so somebody was cun' ioic.!, h.,w>been spent. j “VPho in my opinion killed Goebie? I only wish I knew, but I, and many more Kentuckians, who have been life long dyed in the wool, rebel Dem i ocrats, believe that if-Jack Ohinti 1 would tell what he knows, more light would be Jhrown on the killing. “Honest men of all parties commend the action of both Gov. Mount and i Governor Durbin in refusing to rec-' ognixe the requisitions for Gov. Taylor. The chances are nintey nine to one that he would never be allowed to come to trial, were he taken back there. “It’s very strange how much some people can learn over a grape vine 1 telegraph. 1 "You can’t convince men wai know Taylor to believe that he na.i anything to do with the killing, but strange to say, men who would rea h for their sky piece and hot foot it out of town at even a glimpse of a Ken tncky mountaineer, knows jnst exact ly how, when, where and by whom it was done.- This northern democratic hot air is very nauseating.” The gentleman declined' to be inter viewed further, and > soothing his wratb with a chaw of long green bade us adieu. i