The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
O. F Craig. Editor
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A •■kansB'’. as second class mail matter
PLACING THE BLAME
The Pine Bluff Graphic thinks
the new liquor law will seriously
affect Pine Bluff in a business
way, but frankly confesses that
the liquor men themselves are re-1
sponsible for the enactment of the
stringent liquor law recently pass
ed by the legislature.
The Graphic cites instances
where dives are being run in its
town in open violation of the city
and state laws, and admits that
negroes are tools through which
this is being done.
The liquor men’s use and abuse
of the negro in the futherance of
their interests has heretofore
known no bounds, and to the
negro’s lasting disgrace it must
be said that he has been a faithful
servant of the liquor interests.
He has served well his time and
the liquor interests certainly owe
him a debt of gratitude.
But it is well for the negro, and
well for the state, that the negro
has been eliminated from this mat
ter. Some men need to be pro
tected from their own viciousness,
and while the negro is not entire
ly alone in this class, the percent
age of his race of whom this is true
is larger than that of any other, in
this country.
There is very little to the
negro’s credit as a citizen. A
half century of citizenship has
done very little toward elevating
him in the moral scale. This is
due largely to his own nature, and
in a measure it is due to the vi
cious element of his white brother,
under whose subtle influences the
negro has been a pliant tool in
the accomplishment of much that
has not only hurt the negro but in
a measure has hurt all humanity
as well.
When the wise farmer has a
useful animal that menaces the
welfare of his farm when allowed
too much freedom, he usually
places a good strong fence be
tween the vicious animal and that
part of the farm where his pres
ence would be most harmful.
It is a wise thing to do, and Ark
ansas has done a wise thing in
erecting a good strong fence be
tween the negro and the man who
would build a saloon.
President Whereto of Mexico is
on his way, and will probably ar
rive at about the same destination
that a number of his predecessors
“got off.”
The Journal heartily endorses
the following from the Sharp
County Record: “A public officer
should be a public servant. He
should serve the public, and no
officer has the moral right to pur
sue a course in direct opposition
to the wishes of the people who
elected him to office. The man in
public office who cannot respect
the rights and reflect the wishes
of his constituents ought to pos
sess the manhood to resign his!
place so that it might be filled by
another who is in sympathy with
I public sentiment. If he will not
resign, then the people ought to
have the power to compel him to
vacate his office.”
“Its a mighty poor sort of law
and civilization,” says Wm. J. Bry
an, “that will go out after a man
and compel him to pay back $2
he borrowed, but will let him
send his own flesh and blood out
into the world hopelessly hadicap
ped for want of schooling they
might have had.” And there is
| something worth thinking about in
these few short words.
Corrupt men make corrupt poli
ticians. Without bad men there
would be no bad politics. The
first step in reforming politics
is to keep incompetent and dis
honest men out of office. A cor
rupt private citizen is a menace
to society, but a corrupt official is
a public calamity.
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IN NEWARK EVERY
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The Commercial Appeal last Sun
day published a picture of Senator
T. J. Raney of this place, with the
statement that he is the “author
of the famous bill recently passed
by the legislature, which it is be
lieved will close every saloon in
Arkansas.” The Journal is pleas
ed to note that the newspapers,
and others, are beginning to give
honor where honor is due. Since
| Senator Raney has been in the
I legislature he has been the leader
of the temperance forces in the
senate, and has succeeded in pass
ing more effective anti-liquor
legislation than any man who ever
served in that body.
The Newark Journal is disposed
to poke a bit of fun at the Record
because it supported Joe T. Robin
son for governor and afterward
turned against him when he want
ed the office of United States sen
ator. The Journal might direct
the same remarks to thousands of
Arkansas citizens.—Sharp County
Record.
And no doubt a majority of
them would feel just about as
much disgusted as the Record
editor did when he penned the
above lines.
Govenor Robinson is urging the
legislature to provide for a bond
issue of $750,000. If the governor
really favors the reduction of
taxes,as he claimed in his campaign
speeches, we wonder how he
thinks these bonds can be paid
when they become due.
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Newport has added another kill
| ing to her already long list of
murders. It is hard to tell where
the greatest amount of killing is
being done—in Newport, Walnut
Ridge or Mexico.
Elbert Hubbard says good peo
ple are only half as good, and bad
people are only half as bad, as
other people regard them. And
there is a good deal of truth in
this statement.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION
An examination for clerk and
| carrier will be held at the post
office in Batesville on Saturday
March 8. Age limit, 18 to 45
years. Married women will not
be admitted to the examination.
Applicants must be physically
sound, and must not be less than
5 feet and 4 inches in height and
weigh not less than 125 pounds.
For blanks and full information
address immediately
W. 1' Henderson
Secretary, Board of Civil Service
Examiners, Batesville, Arkansas.
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WEEKS DOINGS IN
DOTA TOWNSHIP
Crisp Items of News From Char
lotte (iathered hy The Jour
nal Correspondent
J. C. McGill went to Sulphur
Rock on business Tuesday.
A. B. Weaver went to Hazel
Grove on business Tuesday.
W. M. Jernigan, who has been
quite sick, is improving slowly.
G. W. Yates and Wesley Brittain
went to Sulphur Rock on business
I Saturday.
C. L. Moore and son, Bond,
went to Batesville on business
Thursday.
U. P. Kent of Sulphur Rock
spent Monday night with G. J.
Lindsey and family.
Mrs. Rebecca Moore and child
ren spent two days last week with
relatives at Newark.
Rev. W. S. Storey filled his reg
ular appointment at the M. E.
church Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Haddock of
Sharp spent Wednesday here with
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Baker.
Quite a number of young people
attended the closing exercises of
the Oak Bluff school Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Woods of
Sulphur Rock, accompanied by
their daughter, Miss Lela, spent
Sunday, the guests of Prof, and
Mrs. S. E. Wells,
Mrs. B. F. Connor, who had been I
very low for some time with |
tuberculosis, died at her home
near here Sunday night, and was j
buried Tuesday at Hopewell.
WORKS BOTH WAYS
The class of immigrants who
immigrate to Arkansas on account
of drastic temperance legislation
and the class emigrants who emi
grate from Arkansas on account
of drastic temperance legislation
will give Arkansas a moral uplift
a-comin’ and a-goin.’—Paragould
Soliphone.
CARD OF THANKS
We cannot express our heart
felt thanks to our friends and
neighbors for their help and kind
ness the sickness and death of our
darling baby who died the 11th
day of February. May the Lord
rest and abide with you all is our
prayer.
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