The Gavelyte, April 1908

C8DARVILLE COLLEGE. Gl Current Events. brought on a state of anarchy which • is discouraging industry while the PROF. F. A. Jl RKAT. farmers are preparing tu leave the The flurry thc1t for a while threat- state by thousands. Kentucky has ened to land the price of provisions I long ·poseri as the home of the beyond the ability of the working-I bravest, but if her best citizens con– men to buy has happily passed away, 1 tinue much longer to stand in awe of and with the return of spring the · 1 : a pack of bloodthirsty rioters she re-employment of labor has enabled will have to take a back seat and them to see again what a steak looks! pass the title on to a worthier cham– like. In the days when communi- 1 pion. cation was difficult the arrival of a Congress seems to be determined presidential year was a signal for to do nothing but routine business, business depres~ion, but the last two J leaving the weightier matter of tariff elections have proved cunclusively j revision to the next administration. that ~uch ill fortune is unnecessary· I Senator Beveridge appears as the The year bids fair to be a record J champion of the revisionists, and pro– breaker fur prosperity in spite of poses to take the whole question from President Itovsevelt's efforts to put I the domain of party politics and en– dishonest business out of commission, I trust it to a non-partisan or bi-parti– and in spite of the fact that several! san commission. At any rate we ml:i.y states are frivolously voting away I look for a tariff revision within the prosperity by means of prohibition ! next five years. enactments, to the great amazement ! The presidential campaign will be und solicitude of the liquor -interests I fought out between Taft and Bryan, and their press-agents Georgia, JI who agree that some thing must be - Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi done to curh predatory capitalism, while 1 orth Carolina, Tennessee, and I but disagree on methods and instru- 1 Kentucky are advancing to the same 1 ! ments. goal. After enactment comes en- 1 The battle cry of safe and sane forcement, and it is di~cult to see J can be. used. just as v.alidly by the · what Kentucky can do 111 the law- Republicans 111 1908 as 1t was by the (•norcemPnt line, when she cannot I Democrats in 1904, and it may be Pnfor('e the laws she now has, ac- j that the people will Pleet the radical, c•ording to the admission of her I if they are as unafraid now as thPy 11:ovi->1w,r. ThP night-ridns havP I wne then.