LAND IS GIVEN MAN AS
EVERLASTING POSSESSION
riosiac Law Mas Nothing to do
With Man’s Title to Land
at Present Time
Editor The Journal.—I was rath
er amused to read Mr. Greenhaw’s
letter in a recent issue of The
Journal, in which he seems to
think that land cannot be legally
sold for more than fifty years and
then reverts back to the original
owner.
The law of Moses has not been
in force for more than 1800 years.
The handwriting was taken out of
the way, being nailed to the cross j
when Christ was crucified. It was
the Jews’ schoolmaster to bring
them to Christ, but we Gentiles
were never under the law of Mo
ses, for “he that seeks to be justi
fied by the law is fallen from
grace,” and if Mr. Greenhaw is a
Jew he must keep the Feast of the
Passover once each year, and then
he must work six years and gath
er enough the sixth year to do
him three years, and he must rest
the seventh year—must not sow
nor reap, nor trim his vineyard,
nor eat anything that grows on the
seventh year, as the chapter teach
es which he refers to.
Do you observe this law, Mr.
Greenhaw? If not, why not? If
you intend to bind the Mosiac law
upon we Gentiles nearly 2,000
years after it was taken away
from the Jews, why do you not
observe it yourself?
Now I call to your mind the
10th verse of the 115th chapter of
Psalms, which says: “The Heavens,
even the Heavens, are the Lord’s;
but the earth hath he given to the
children of men.”
I refer you to Gen. 50:13,',
Deut. 1:8, and Gen. 17:8 which
says: “And I will give unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee, the
land wherein thou art a stranger,
all the land of Canaan for an ever
lasting possession, and 1 will be
thy God.”
I could refer you to many more
proofs but this is enough to make
some one think, and may probably
do some good. Subscriber.
Big Flat, Ark., July 27.
PUSH STATE-WIDE EIGHT
Little Rock, July 30. A deter
mined and systematic campaign is
to be made for the adoption of the
State wide Prohibition bill at the
September election. This has just
been decided upon at a conference
of representatives of temperance
organizations, at which a central
state advisory committe was or
ganized for the purpose of secur
ing the co-operation of all friends
of the temperance cause.
Bishop Warren A. Candler of
Atlanta, Ga., who is to hold the
South Methodist conferences in
Arkansas this year, has tendered
his services to the campaign com
mittee for one week, and an
nouncement will be made of his
itinerary later.
MANY QUESTIONS FOR
VOTERS TO PASS UPON
People Have Large Task Before
Them at General Election
September 9th
Should the free and untrammel*
ed voters of Arkansas be required
to read the full text of the laws
submitted to them for adoption at
the general election on September
9, it would take 30 days to hold
the election under the initiatve
and referendum. Fortunately,
however, the various proposed
amendments to the constitution
and laws will appear on the ballot
under a brief heading, the printed
laws themselves having appeared!
in the newspapers of each county.
The measure which has been
most discussed, and which proved
to be a factor in the race for nom-1
inationas governoe, is the Turner
Jacobson bill, or the bill to revise
taxation system in the state and
reduce the rate, according to its j
framers. Having been passed at
the extraordinary session of the
General Assembly without the
emergency clause attached, this
bill was subject to the referendum
and was brought before the peo
ple, by petition, for adoption or
rejection. The entire system of
taxation is revised and recodified
in the Turner-Jacobson bill in 128
sections.
STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION
Another important measure is
the state-wide prohibition meas
ure. The penalty for violation of
this act, if passed is not less than
$50 nor more than $500 lor the
first offense, and for any subse
quent offense not less than $100
nor more than a $1,000, and im
prisonment for not less three
months nor more than twelve
months.
AMENDMENT TO ISSUE BONDS
Constitutional Amendment No.
15 provides for the issuance of
bonds by municipal corporations.
This is to amend Article 16, Sec
tion 1, to permit cities of the first
and second class and incorporated
towns of 1,000 population or more
to issue bonds for certain pur
poses with the consent of the ma
jority of qualified electors. The
issuance of bonds is limited to re
funding of debt and for certain
municipal improvements such as
the construction of sewers, water
works, etc. The purpose for which
bonds may be issued are set forth
and it is specified that such bonds
! may not be sold for less than par,
j and sholl not bear a greatest in
| terest than 5 per cent when issued
by cities of the first class.
THE “gRANDFATAER CLAUSE”
Proposed amendment No. 11, by
joint resolution of the Thirty
eighth General Assembly, fixes
the ability to read and interpret
any section of the constitution of
the United States, in addition tc
other qualifications as a voter
Its object is to disfranchise the
ignorant negro, and it provides
that no man whose ancestors were
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OF ARKANSAS
More than a mountain resort; more than a fashionable
playground—these wonderful springs, with their mys
terious health-giving waters, have become famous as
Nature's Greatest Sanitarium
The waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas are the
greatest waters known to mankind. Tht re is no sub
stitute for the Hot Springs baths. Their marvelous
cures cannot be exaggerated. No one can afford to
deprive himself of the quiet rest, the exhilarating joy
and the wonderful toning up that comes from a course
of these baths, coupled with the rehabilitating influ
ence of the mountain ozone and beautiful landscapes
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entitled to vote pryor to 1865 shall
be disqualified as an elector.
UNIFORM TEXT-BOOK LAW
An act providing for the election
by vote of the teachers of the state
of a Text Iluok Commission, whose
duty shall be to adopt a uniform
system of text books for use in
the common schools of the state.
“sixty-day session”
Proposed amendment No. 13 is
for the purpose of limiting the ses
sions of the legislature to 60 days,
or to require members to serve,
without pay, should the legislature
j hold for more than 60 days. A per
I diem of $6 a day for 60 days in
,: regular session, and S3 a day for
the first 15 days when called in ex
traordinary session, is provided,
. and it is provided further that
• where the legislature is in session
j longer, the members shall be re
quired to serve without pay.
RECALL OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS
Under this proposed amendment
to the constitution any elective of
! fleer in the state may be removed
from office.
AMEND ELECTION LAWS
! An act to make certain changes
in the election laws will be placed
on the ballot. Several sections of
Kirby’s Digest relative to the ap
pointment of election commission
ers and the holding of elections
are amended, some of them but
slightly.
EXEMPTING FROM TAXATION
Proposed Amendment No. 12by
joint resolution of the legislature
provides that all capital invested
in Arkansas during the next ten
years in the manufacture of cot
ton or fibre goods shall be exempt
from taxation for a period of sev
en years after the business of man
ufacturing has begun.
MANEY-RII.EY
Will Haney and Miss Annie Ril
ey were married at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. G. L. Fink last Sun
i day, Rev. Fink officiating.
LODGE MEETINGS
Newark Kastern Star Lodge meets
on the first Thursday in each month
at 3 o'clock p. m. Visiting members
cordially welcome.
Mrs. J. [. Sturdivant, Worthy Matron
PKOFOSED AMDNOalST TO TX1I
CONSTITUTION OF THB ITAI1
OF ABIAHAS.
Notice la hereby given that tha fol
lowing Joint resolution proposing as
amendment to the State Constitution,
was passed by the General Assembly at
its regular session of 1311, and that
the same will be submitted to the
electors of the State at the next
general election, to be held Monday.
September 9, 1312, for adoption or re
jection.
Proposed Amendment No. 11.
That the following article shall be
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of tlie State of Arkansas,
which, when agreed to by a majority of
all the members elected to each House
and adopted by a majority of the elec
tors of the State voting at the next
general election for senators and rep
resentatives, shall become a part of the
Constitution of Arkansas.
"livery male citizen of the United
States, or every male person who has
declared his intention of becoming a
citizen of the same, of the ago of
twenty-one years or upward, who has
resided in the State twelve months. In
the county six months, and in the pre
cinct, town or ward one month next
preceding any election at which tie may
propose to vote, and who is aide to read
and Interpret, or interpret when read
to him, if he is prevented from read
ing the same by reason of any physi
cal disability, any section of the Constl
tution of the Stute of Arkansas, except
s. h persons as may, for the comtnis
shin of some ftflony, tie deprived of the
right to vote by law passed by the Gen
erut Assembly, and who shall exhibit a
poll tax receipt or other evidence that
lie has paid his poll tax at the time of
collecting tuxes next preceding such
election, shall be allowed to vote at any
election held In the State of Arkansas
but no person who was, on January 1,
1866. or at any tune prior thereto, en
titled to vote under tile Constitution or
statutes nf any State In the United
States, wherein he then resided, and n"
male person of foreign birth who was
naturalized prior to the adoption of
this amendment, and no lineal descend
urit of s uch person, who shall possess
Hie other quallflcat >ns described in this
article, shall be denied the right to
vote because of his inability to ao read
and Interpret sections of the Constl
tution of this State; provided, that male
persons who make satisfactory proof
that they have attained the age of
twenty-one years since the time
for assessing the taxes for the
year next preceding the year In
wiiich the election at which he
may propose to vote is held, and pos
hi h.- os tiie other qualifications required
| by this article shall be permitted to
vote and, provided further, that the
sal i tax receipt shall be so marked by
dated stamp or other written endorse
nu nt by I lie judges of election to whom
It may first be pifesented. as to pre
vent the holder thereof from voting
more than once at any election.
The Judges of election shall enforce
: the prov isions of this article fend shall
be the Judges of the qualifications of
electors "
ae above resolution was filed in the
office of the Secretary of State on
March 16, 1111
Each elector may vote for or against
the above amendment
Witness my official signature this
lith day of February, 1912
EAHUE W. HODGES.
Secretary of State.
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