The Newark Journal
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O. F. Craig. Editor
Entered at the post office at Newark,
Arkansas, as second class mail matter.
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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1910
MORE WORK; LESS POLITICS
So far as The Journal is con
cerned, we would much rather see
the adoption of Amendment No.
11 by the people in the Septem
ber election than to see the adop
tion No. 10. \Ve have no fight to
make on No. 10, but we think No.
11 is of far greater importance to
the state.
We have too much politics now,
and not enough of industrial mat
ters. It is true, politics is the
chief governing force of the nation
and it is very important that poli
tics lie kept clean and the govern
ment administered in the interest
of the people.
“Let the people rule,” is a good
slogan, and is one the profes
sional politician delights to quote,
even though he may be diligently
working to thwart the will
of the people and to build up a
machine to serve his own selfish
interests and purposes.
The Initiative and Referendum
is a good thing, but it is no pana
cea. If we elect true and honest
men to office and give them to un
derstand that they must honestly,
fearlessly and conscientiously per
form the functions of goverment,
or sutler the penalities of the law
and the penalties of social and po
litical ostracism, there would be no
need of this cry for the Initiative
and Referendum.
If the government,national,state
or local, is corrupt, or is not what
the people desire, the people them
selves are to blame, for the gov
ernment, primarily, is what the
people make it.
That there are many needed re
forms, no one who studies political
economy will for a moment deny.
But reforms, both political and
social, are brought about by pub
lic sentiment.
Would public sentiment be more
healthy, or contain more of the
spirit of altruism, under the Initia
tive and Referendum then we find
it today ?
If the Initiative and Referendum
will quicken the conscience of the
American public, or even so much
of the public conscience as is sur
rounded by the boundaries of the
state of Arkansan, The Journal
says for God's sake—for the peo
ples’ sake and for the sake of Jus
tice and Right—give us the Initia
tive and Referendum.
We need a healthier public sen
timent, and a public conscience
that will not permit us to stultify
our ballots as honest American
sovereigns, either for the vin
dication of the demagogue
who seeks to have his official
character whitewashed, or in the
interest of that brand of partisan
politics that places a higher estimate
upon the success of partyism than
upon the success of the principles
of right and justice.
Iiut the great and crying need
of Arkansas today is to awaken a
greater interest in educational and
industrial matters.
We need to train the youth of
the state to be more efficient in the
industrial and mechanical arts, and
we need to provide more avenues
for the employment of their brain
and muscle.
One way to do this is to adopt
Amendment No. 11, which provid
es for the exemption from taxation
for a period of seven years all fac
tories built for the manufacture of
cotton goods in Arkansas. We
know there are people who will
object to this as being class legis
lation. It is class legislation; it is
FIRST class legislation.
The chief product of Arkansas
is cotton. Arkansas produces fifty
million dollars worth of cotton
annually, and yet NOT A POUND
OF COTTON IS MANUFAC
TURED INTO CLOTH IN AR
KANSAS!
Suppose our entire cotton crop
was manafactured into the finished
product within the state, instead
of having to be shipped to theNorth
and East. Look at the great army
of people it would furnish employ
ment for, and the vast amount of
money that would be brought into
circulation in the state.
One of the chief beauties of the
cotton-using factories is that the
supply of raw material can always
be maintained, and may be increas
ed, whereas many other manufac
turing industries have the draw
back of having to sooner or later
face the exhaustion of the supply
of raw material.
Arkansas needs and wants cot
ton-using factories above almost
any other industrial enterprise,
and the state can well adord to
suspend taxation of them for the
brief period of seven years.
Amendment No 10 is all right
but No 11 is better, and is of far
more importance to the state.
Every politician in the state is
howling himself hoarse in favor of
Amendment No. 10, but not a sin
gle one of them has raised his
voice in behalf of Amendment No.
11. If they really want to help the
people why don’t they take up the
fight for this amendment? The
Journal has no doubt but that its
adoption will mean the erection of
Nothing can give so much pleasure
to so many people for so long a time
at so little cost as an Edison Phono
graph. What more could you ask? If
you are interested see
W. D. HINSON
•V©* JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Newark,
Arkansas
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several cotton mills in Arkansas.
There is nothing that would help
the state more and .yet we see the
supposed leaders of the people de
voting their time to a further agi
tation of politics, and ignoring and
neglecting the things that will help
to bring prosperity to the people
and place our state upon the high
way to commercial and industrial
development.
Too many people have the mis
taken idea that certain political re
forms will bring prosperity. Poli
tics never did and never can create
prosperity. It is only by the pro
duction and creation of the mater
ial things that have a commercial
value that we attain prosperity or
wealth. Industry is the only real
foundation of wealth, and the man
who expects to attain prosperity
through any other avenue is fol
lowing a delusion as foolish and
unfounded as that of chasing the
rainbow.
What Arkansas needs is to de
vote less time and attention to
politics, and more to educational
and industrial matters.
The Newport Democrat inti
mates that The Journal does not
know its own exact position on
certain political issues. So far as
we know, Waterman is the only
man who thinks so, and if we re
member correctly we have very
plainly shown the colonel a few
times just where we stand. Hut
the great trouble with Waterman
is that he has gotten so accustomed
to preverting the truth that he
can’t correctly tell you the time of
day by the town clock. He wears
his headlight behind, uses a quart
bottle for a reading glass and when
he gets up in the morning puts
his shirt on tail end up and wash
es his feet instead of his
face. But in this last per
formance he is no doubt right,
for he wears his brains in his feet,
and his think-tank will not oper
ate until he soaks his corns and
rubs iodoform in his shoes.
The Journal is especially pleased
to see the disposition upon the
part of the people of Newark to
get together on matters affecting
i the common welfare of the town.
It is a precursor of good, and if
our citizens will cultivate the
spirit and work together in unity
and harmony, all working togeth
er with the vim and enthusiasm
that we should, we can make New
ark an ideal town. As for The
Journal, we are ready and willing
to roll up our sleeves and do our
level best in any movement cal
culated to help Newark become a
bigger and better town.
The Journal ha« long pleaded
for the organization of a commer
cial league in Newark. We have
contended that it would do more
to bring the people together and
foster a spirit of home pride and
create a greater interest in the
upbuilding of the town than could
possibly be brought about by any
other means. We still believe it,
and the present movement for a
Trades Day has deepened the con
viction.
According to the report of the
interstate commission, the rail
roads in the United States killed
one passenger in every 3,523,606
carried during the fiscal year 1908
09, and injured one in every 86
458. _
Every man has a right to his
own opinion, and no man, no mat
ter how big and powerful he may
he, can compel other men, who
are freemen, to allow' him to do
their thinking for them.
The great problem of reducing
the high cost of living would be a
dream if we could just do away
; with this fad of wearing clothes
and feeding our faces.
Texas has nominated an avowed
liquor man for governor and voted
for the submission of state-wide
| prohibition. There’s consistency
: for you.
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Newark io catching the booster
spirit, and if we will cultivate it
and work together we can bring
things to pa*s
You’ll be lonesome if you don’t
come to the big Land Congress
Picnic at Newark today and to
morrow.
Notice to l et Contract For Con
struction of Drainage District
No. 3, independence County,
East of Newark, Arkansas.
Notice is hereby given, in pursuant
to an order of the Independence Coun
ty County Court, that the contracts
for the digging and construction of
Drainage District No. 3, Indepen
dence County, east of Newark, Arkan
sas, will be let and conducted by
Lund <& Hill, civil engineers, on
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1910,
At 2 o’clock p. m., or as near thereat
as practical, in front of the Court ■
House door, in the City of Batesville, I
Arkansas, at public outcry, and the
work and construction of same to lie
done according to the plans and speci
fications, which are tiled in the County
Clerk's office, in said City of Bates
ville; and the construction of the
Main ditch will be let in four sec
tions, numbered from the upper end
of same, sections one. two and three
to measure one mile each, and section
four to include the remainder of said
Main ditch, with the privilege of let
ting the whole contract to any person,
persons or corporation, and persons
or corporations to whom contracts are
let shall enter into a good and suf
ficient bond, as required by law, in
double the amount of the estimated
value of the part bid off, to be ap
proved or disapproved by the Court.
Said work to be completed by the 31st
day of December, 1910, unless the time
lie extended by the Court, for good
reasons shown. Said contracts to be
let to the lowest responsible bidder,or
bidders, and that all or any of said
bids may be accepted or rejected by
said Court. And the work and con
struction of cleaning, opening, etc., of
Still House Branch, Axe Handle
Branch and the Government Ditch
shall each be let separately and at
public outcry in the same manner as
the Main ditch, and at the same time
and place, and by contract for each,
or for all three, or by day labor, as
may la' deemed l)est for said district.
That no bids will be entertained
whose combined amount shall exceed
the combined estimated cost of said
construction more than twenty-five
per cent thereof.
Given under my hand and seal as
County Clerk this the 12th day of Ju
ly. 1910, A. D. Albert Sims,
County Clerk.
Notice to Sell Bonds For Construc
tion of Drainage District No 3,
Independence County, East
of Newark, Arkansas
Notice is hereby given that twenty
(20) year bonds will be issued by the
County Court of IndependeneeCounty,
Arkansas, in denominations of One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each, and
the same will be sold by the County
Treasurer to meet the cost and ex
j>enses of the work and construction
of the improvements of said Drainage
District No. 3, Independence County,
east of Newark, Arkansas, which
bonds shall mature annually, begin
ning on the first day of October, 1021.
and be due and payable at the same
time each year thereafter up to and
including the year 1031, and said j
bonds to draw not exceeding the rate i
of six j>er cent interest per annum 1
from date of issuing same until paid.
Said Ponds to be sold to the highest
and best bidder, or bidders, on
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1910,
At 2 o’clock [t. rn . or as near thereat
as practicable, at the front door of
the Court House, in the City of Hates
ville, Arkansas. And in no case
shall said bonds sell for less than par
value. And in order to meet the pay
ment of said bonds, principal and in
terest. the assessments or re-assess
ments against the real estate and.
other property affected by the propos
ed drainage improvement herein shall
be divided into such sums as shall be
sufficient to pay such bonds as they
become due. and shall be entered upon
the tax books against said lands and
property to be affected, and be col
lected in the same manner as taxes are
collected, and applied to the payment
of said bonds, principal and interest,
as provided by law, and the payment
of said bonds shall be thus secured
according to law.
Given under my hand and seal, as
such County Court of Independence j
County, Arkansas, on this the 9th day j
of July, 1910. CUP. L. Pearue,
Judge of Said County Court.
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