with my friends and forget for a little that I am no longer one and twenty. When the time arrives for me to go to my account, I mean to go shouting; to go with my flag flying, and, as I never have lied to the people of Kentucky, please God I never shall. I have told them a great many unpalat- able things. I have met their disapproval full in the face. I have lived to see most of my admonitions against this, that and the other vain hope vindicated by events. I want to live yet a little longer to tell the truth and shame the devil; but if obscurity and adversity and neglect shall over- take me it will be a comfort even in the valley of the shadow of death that from first to last I fought, not for the speckled gospels of the short-haired women and the long-haired men of Babylon, but for the simple manhood and lovely woman- hood of old Kentucky never new Kentucky, but always, and forever, old Kentucky your birthright and mine. (October i, 1907.) The Common Sense of the People will Finally Assert Itself if Help is Given to That End. I do not believe the situation is desperate, bad though it undoubtedly is. The common sense of the people will eventually assert itself. Of that there can be no doubt. Even now, when the tide of opposition to the brewing business seems to be at the flood, there are voices, now and then, to call the people to reason. Here is something from Secretary of War Wm. H. Taft's book, "Fow Aspects of Civic Duty" which may