The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
O. F. Craig. Editor
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908
Some wag lias issued a post card
with this bit of advice on it: 4'If
whiskey interferes with your business,
give up your business*. No use trying
to do two things at once.”
The editor of an exchange says,
4‘When a woman becomes speechless
with rage it is time for the man in the
controversy to hike for the tall timber.’’
Now, we wonder what’s been happen
ing at his house?
Some of the whiskey people never
tire of telling1 of the great (?) amount
of revenue the town and county de
rives from liquor license. But they
never say a word about the tines the
poor deluded victims of the drink
habit have to pay, with money that is
oft times needed by their families for
the actual necessities of life.
The man who owns his home i-> in a
position that the renter can never
reach. The renter usually finds that
his rent is too high, or he is dissatis
fied for some reason, and is restless,
and discontentment stalks before him.
He wants to move. He does not take
the same interest in the welfare of his
community and in hi s own welfa re, nor is
he as solicitous of his neighbors, as
the man who owns his home. The
Journal's advice to every man is to
get busy and acquire a home of your
own, no matter how small or bow
humble it may be.
Some men attain a wide reputation
within the male circle of their ac
quaintance of l>eing “royal good fel
lows" when the men themselves know
that it is undeserved and that the term
“bad fellows” would more nearh tit
their case. Of course there are hosts
upon hosts of-men—far more than the
world at large know of who are in
truth good fellows in every sense of
the word, but it is a fact, nevertheless,
that in numerous instances the desig
nation applied to men whose only title
thereto is won at the cost of disquiet
and anxiety at home and among
friends and possibly of broken hearts
and ruined lives. Viewed from the
standpoint of right, a young man
cannot afford to lie known as a “good
fellow,” as the term is commonly un
derstood, much less to be one. In its
proper sense of being an agreeable
companion, everyone should endeavor
to be such and the first place in which
to show this good fellowship is the
home.
“The life of an editor is not all roses.
If he pleases one faction he displeases
the other. He is accused of saying too
much about someone and too little
about another. I f he suggests a remedy
for any social evil a large part of the
community is profuse in its expres
sions of disapproval. So he taxes
his weary brain to escape the shoals
that mean shipwreck to so many edi
tors,” says an exchange. Not so with
The Journal. We usually tire straight
at the mark, regardless of “factions. ”
It is our mission to tell the truth, ad
vocate those things we lielieve to be to
the best interests our country and do
all the good we can in the world.
Ha ving thoroughly made up our mind
to pursue this course, the ravings of
factions, patisans and gossips have
no effect upon us whatever.
Were it not for the insatiable greed
prevalent in some people to possess'
everything in sight, and to discoun
tenance everything that does not di
rectly benefit themselves, there would
be more homes in this great country
of ours, and less people roaming
around in search of a scanty living,
while these monsters of greed are ac
cumulating, hoarding and denying
themselves many things actually nec
essary to their comfort to the end
that they may satisy their covetous
wishes, which are so grasping that
nothing ordinary can satisfy them.
By day and by night and throughout
their entire existence their one thought
is for self and accumulation, and to
such an extent do people ride this dis
agreeable hobby, that they utterly
obliterate every good quality that
they have started in life with, never
stopping to think that their life at best
is but a short span until they will be
compelled, however reluctantly, to
give up their dearly secured posses
sions to those who will not even be
grateful to them for their grasping
efforts in obtaining them.
SALOONS AND PROSPERITY
Do saloons bring1 prosperity? Some
people claim they do. But let's in*
• vestigate the matter just a lijttle.
Saloons were voted out four years
ago, and some people claim it killed
the town.
Well, let’s see. Banks are the best
barometers, or indicators, of the
financial condition of a community,
so let's see what the bank books show.
On September 1, 15)04, there was one
bank in Newark. Its total capital
stock, surplus and deposits amounted
to $49,tm
On September 1, 1908, after the sa
loons have been out four years, we
find two banks. Their books show
that on September 1, 15)08, their com
bined capital, surplus and deposits
i aggregate 871.4x1.
Does that look like voting out sa
loons has killed the town?
Evidently there is more money in
the town and surrounding country now
than there was then, or the banks
would not show this increase.
And in considering this phase of the
question’it should be remembered that
this county had an almost total crop
failure last year, bringing no money
in the country, but causing several
thousand dollars to b% sent out for
feedstuffs. The country made a big
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; crop in 1903 and there was no money
sent out for feed stuffs during the sum
mer of 1904.
Yet in spite of those unfavorable
conditions the hanks show a not in
crease in capital and deposits of $22.
412.
Does that look like voting out sa
loons killed the town?
But the town needs the revenue, say
some people.
Well, let’s see. At the close of the
fiscal year in April. 1904. when there
were three saloons in town, and after
a saloon regime lasting for perhaps
twenty years, there was the munificent
sum of $101.78 in the town treasury.
At the close of the fiscal year in 1
April, 1908. there was $799.20.
During the fiscal year closing April, j
1904, there was a total of 112 fines'
assessed is the mayor’s court, 101 of
which were for fighting and drunkness.
The reign of the saloon and the blind
tiger in Newark was brought to a close
a little over a year ago, and the may
or’s docket shows that from August 1,
1907, to August 1, 1908, there was a
total of eighteen fines assessed in the
mayor’s court: or 92 less than were
assessed during one year of the sa
loon reign.
Even under the reign of the blind
tigers, the record of tines assessed in
tht> mayor’s court shows a marked de
crease, the total number from August
1, 1900, to August 1. 1907, being 03.
The rate of taxation now is n<> higher
than in 1904, there was six times as
many tines assessed then now.
and yet there is more than four times ;
the money in the town treasury now
than there was then.
And yet some people say we need
the saloons.
Some people WANT them, but does
the town, the community or the people '
NEED them?
The Journal thinks not.
WHAT ARKANSAS NHKDS
Arkansas is yet practically an un
developed state. She has the natural
resources that will some day make her
a great state and one of the wealthiest
in the Union, but she is now far in the
background in many respects. Her
greatest need is more capital and more
men of push, courage and ability men .
who have faith in the future: men of
more enterprise, broader ideas and
higher ideals; men who do not live in
the yesterday of life: men who cannot
be satisfied with a mere existence -but i
men who are filled with zeal and !
optimism; men who expect great things
of themselves and their country, and j
who are not afraid to invest their
money and bend their every energy in
attaining success for themselves and
assisting their fellow-man, and aiding
the cause of progress and prosperity.
The man who is content to sit down,
or stand around, and merely take what
the world gives him, is of no benefit to
himself, his race or his country. He
is merely a piece of living flesh, ab
sorbing only what it requires no effort
to attain, and occupies about the same
i relative position in the great human
family that the “cypress knee" does
in the forest.
We have too many “cypress knees”
among the citizenship of Arkansas,and
The Journal is of the opinion that
some of our so-called statesmen, men
who have occupied high official posi
tions positions by which the world
judges the state and her people have
been too much on the order of the
“cypress knee”—content to take things
just as they found them, simply lo
calise “our daddies” lived that way
“and what was good enough for daddy
is good enough for me.”
But The Journal believes the dawn
of a better day is upon Arkansas. We
believe that < ieorge Donaghey. plain,
blunt business man that he is, is go
ing to do more to get Arkansas above
the “cypress knees” than any man
who has been at the head of affairs in
this state in many years.
The opening speech of his campaign,
published in The Journal last week,
breathes the proper spirit. It is no
oratorical gem, and may contain no
flights of eloquence and finished rhet
oric. But if George Donaghey's
heart beats in true sympathy and ac
cord with the utterances of that
speech, and he bends his every energy
to the task he has set for himself, the
people will rise up and call him
blessed and his name will be handed
down to posterity as one of the great
est governors Arkansas ever had.
The Journal has faith in plain old
George Donaghey, and we are glad to
note that he is also attracting favor
able comment from all parts of the
country. In the September issue of
Uncle Remus’ Home Magazine, of
Atlanta, Ga., w’e find the following
1 under the suggestive title, “Justice,
[ Work and Less Talk.”
“Arkansas is about to be ‘reformed.’
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So says George W. Donaghey, the
governor-elect of that commonwealth.
But there are to he no sensational
methods about this reformation. On
the other hand, reformation itself is to
consist in the elimination of sensa
tional methods as applied to politics.
The determination to hold the balance
true Ijetween organized capital and the
public interest is not best expressed
by sweeping and sensational political
agitation; the whole subject of the
proper relation which corporate wealth
should bear to the state is so difficult
and so complicated that only through
a cool and calm-blooded consideration
is it possible to arrive at justice.
“Agitation has its uses; the honest
agitator has his function. Without a
certain amount of agitation the people
would go to sleep entirely, they would
snore away their rights. But after
the agitator comes the constructor; the
man who is to build upon the ground
which the agitator has indicated- and
sometimes cluttered up with all sorts
of debris. And political agitation
as a moans to political power has been
just a bit overworked in the South,
and the south is ready now for an era
of leaders who will point it to a mid
dle course—a course in which there are
fewer clap-trap phrases and political
■atch-words of whatever sort thrown
into the air from either obstructionists
on the one side or demagogs on the
other, and a little more cold-blooded
common sense brought into play all
the way around.”
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For Congressman, Second District
W. A. OLDFIELD.
For Prosecuting Attorney
R. E. JEFFERY.
For Representative—
W. M. THOMPSON.
J. L. BROWN.
For County .Judge
CUL. L. PEARCE.
For Circuit ('lerk —
GEO. BEVENS.
For County Clerk—
ALBERT SIMS
For Sheriff -
ALBERT L. DUNLAP
For Collector—
WINFRED T. GRAY.
For Assessor—
C. M. FLINN.
For Treasurer—
FRANKLIN PERRIN.
For Surveyor—
OSCAR WARREN.
For Coronet—
It. L. FLINN.
FIRST BALE OF COTTON
Noel Norris sold the first hale of
;otton for the. season yesterday. C.
VI. Edwards bought it, the price paid
being 9.90
A. G. Kunz, a Ft. Smith saloon
man, shot and probably fatally wound
ed himself with suicidal intent a few
days ago.__ _
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Bad Golds or LaGrippe and
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St. L. I. M. & S. Ry.
Trains pass Newark as follows:
GOING WJCST.
No. 210 (passenger). 7:43 a. m.
No. 24b (mixed).12:52 p, m.
GOING EAST.
No. 209 (passenger). 0:48 p. ra.
No 245 (mixed).9:05 a. in.
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