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Show PASSING OF KENTUCKY COLONEL The growth of local option as a mean- t-. , the sale and use of spirituous and malt li.pi. throughout the country is especially noteworthy a it affects the business down in old Kentucky. t!.. home of fine whisky and other things. Perh,v-the Perh,v-the people there have seen the results of the i nli -criminate use of whisky as a beverage; perhaps , much of misery and poverty and blighted hopes and young lives sacrificed to Colonel Barleycorn ln determined them to remove him from their mid-i. But the. Colonel is a worthy antagonist, and the fight of the people against his well-organized fore -is not altogether one-sided, hence the energy displayed dis-played by the people is needed. A correspondent of the Louisville Post, in reporting re-porting the election at Lebanon, the county soar of Marion county, when the question of local option was up. tells how union prayer meetings were hell in the churches, and how a procession of 2u women wo-men and children marched from one polling place to another singing songs and urging the lords of creation to give the women and the growing generation gene-ration a chance to serve under some other banne;-than banne;-than Colonel Barleycorn's. When the result became be-came known, the correspondent says, pandemonium reigned and that no such demonstration had ever been seen in Lebanon. Lebanon is not the first town to vote for l.c.i! option, and Owensboro. one of the greatest whi.sk-producing whi.sk-producing towns in the world, will vote on the subject sub-ject soon. Provided the growth of the movement continues uninterruptedly, and whisky is placed under un-der the ban as a beverage for Kentuckians. what f effect will it have on the production, and where will the Kentucky colonel migrate that he may ge; his regular julep ? Or, if the colonels are no longer long-er full of corn, will the corn remain so full of kernels ker-nels ? The spirit of the people is one of genuine -form. It is a great moral principle for which they are waging war. a battle for the home and the preservation pres-ervation of the manhood of the state. The Kentucky Ken-tucky colonel is one of the least pathetic figures whose passing the world may well look upon wi:l thanksgiving. Let the good work go on. |