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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, October 27, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 44.
MAKING OF ALCOHOL
A GREAT INDUSTRY
So Says Uncle John Hindman in Clos- j
ing His Arguments on the
Prohibitioa Question.
To The Newark Journal:
Thanks for past favors. By
your permission, I would like to
write one more essay on the mer
its of alcoholic liquors, their uses i
and abuses, then 1 am done, if not
pressed too closely. 1 see by the j
late diatribes of my friends that
people can become drunk on mon
omaniacism, as well as on alcohol,
and of the two intoxicants, give
!me alcohol every time, for I would
soon get over that, while the oth
er might remain with me inditi
nitely.
As I have said before, all ques
tions of any importance have two
sides to them, and one side has an
equal right with the other to a fair
I and impartial hearing. To a stran
ger who is not acquainted with the
people of our country, the last es
say of Mr. Martin’s would create
the impression that we, jus a peo
ple, were nothing but a howling
mob of drunkards, saloon upon
saloon, and the people lighting to
the death for the contents thereof.
When th*' actual facts in the case,
as statistics will prove, there are
not two per cent of the adults of
our country that drink to excess,
W;M
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Our wise Creator creates noth
in}; in vain. He creates for a pur
pose both the wise and good, and
we^ as His creatures, should try to
learn His purposes were, and
instead of cursing and damning
His work, try to find out for what
they were intended and use them
accordingly.
()ur race has not been in progress
of evolution long enough yet. and
all men are not alike in disposition.
The minds and dispositions of
some men have reached the apex
of human possibility, as it seems
to us now, and from this point on
down we tind them degenerating
until they come in touch with the
animal kingdom, therefore there
are a great many people of the
lower classes (fortunately there
are not many such in our part of
the country) who are endowed with
a considerable amount of animal
propensities, and alcohol is the
hydrometre which the Creator has
furnished us by which we may tell
exactly how much animal there is
in a man. If a man is away from
home, and, as he comes back, it is
seen that he is somewhat “boozy,” ■
and his wife and children run out
to me.-t him, you may set it down
that there is no animal in his
makeup. But, on the other hand,
if his wife and children make tbeir
exit at the back door as he enters
the front, there is animal there, 1
and all that you have to do to
determine the species to which he
belongs is to watch him. If he
squalls he is feline; if he squeals
he is porcine; if he barks he is ca
nine, and if he brays he is assign.
The field in which 1 have to work
in defense of this Cod-given bless
ing is so larg^ that I cannot do it
justice in a short essay. Alcohol
accompanied our fore-fathers from
the shores of the Old World to the
wilds of the New, and had it not
been that their brain was fertiliz-1
ed and made strong by it, this
country, more than likely, would
have been a wilderness today. If
the Indian had had whiskey, as the1
white man had it, he would not
have been west of the Mississippi
river today.
Our prohi friends say that alco
holic liquors and good morals can
not go tohether. Hovever, I guess
they are excusable. More than
likely they were born within the
last fifty years If they were, they
know no better, (rood morals
progressed more in the time from
American Independence up to the
civil war than they did before, or
have done since. In that period
whoever wanted to make whiskey
done it. and you could get all you
wanted for thirty cents a gallon,
and crime and immorality was no
worse than now, if as bad There
are in round numbers 20,000,000
men, women and children in the
United States who are directly and
indirectly concerned in the manu
facture of alcoholic liquors, and
every time that a man takes a
drink of it, he is exercising his
own liberty, as well as helping
others to make an honest living,
If you go into a well regulated sa
loon you see therq represented, in
part, the honest labor of the agri
culturist, the carpenter, the artist,
the glass industry, the clay indus
try, the cooper industry, copper
workers, distillers and rectifiers,
brewers and matters, teamsters,
dray men, and the products of the
vineyard, in which thousands of
men and women are employed.
And besides these there are em
ployed in the United States 172,
5t*3 men running saloons. Prohi,
that looks large, don’t it? Hut for
your information 1 will tell you
that there are 112,000 preachers
in the United States, and the sa
loon men are gaining in numbers
the fastest. If you are trying to
follow the footsteps of the Savior,
you ought to be learning the art
of turning water to wine, instead
of crying out against the works of
his Father, (rod intended that alt
his creatures who are in human
shape, but in whose brains the an
imal instincts prevail, should use
alcohol to either annihilate the
man or the instincts, so that the
average standard of humanity
would mark high up.
Well 1 must close, and go to the
hills far, far away to make a sur
vey.
“() Willie, o Willie come home, we’ll
do the best we can
And if the old brute kills himfelf, I’ll
marry a man.”
Done good? Of course it has.
It has set people to thinking.
Yours for human liberty,
•John Hindman.
CIRCUIT COURT.
The fall term of the Indepen
dence circuit court convened at
Batesville Monday. The follow
ing compose the juries.
Grand Jurors: John Q. Wolf,
foreman; A. A. Henderson, clerk;
A. M. Young, William Kent, Ab
solom Allen, A. B. Pelley, I). G.
Hays, E. A. Young, W. I). Mag
ness, L. W. Childers, W. S. Cox.
J. 1*. Montgomery, J. A. Mc
Xeese, II. M. Young. I). D. Whis
nant and W. E. Strickland.
Petit Jurors: E W. Wheeler,
M. P. Baxter, Cury Craig, Paul
Pearce, Robert McClendon, James
GaiYett, R. J. Engles, R. M. Dav
idson, D. G. Boyce, J. B. Bailey,
J. M. Hoover, Roland Head
stream, M. R. Leggett, Legrand
Reaves, J. T. Lind
sey, John M75ore^jeorge Young,
Thomas Massey, M. E. Moore, A.
L. Dunlap, W. A. Mayhue, J. II.
Jimmerson and E. A. Fall is.
Mrs. Sig Shoffner and little son,
of Shotfner, are spending a few
days in the city vuMting the lady’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mur
j phy.
G. F. Murtf who came here a
year or so ago from Springfield,
Mo., left Monday for Nashville,
Tenn., where he will probably lo
cate.
W. J. Littlefield, who has been
quite sick for several days with
slow fever, is reported to be im
proving nicely, and will soon be
out again.
We have several thousand dol
lars worth of ladies' and gentle
men's cleverest fall apparel which
we are sacrificing for cash. Moore
Bros. & Co.
Get in your order now for your
fall hat. Mrs. Lancaster and Miss
Reeves can assure you more atten
tion now than later. Fred 1).
W hiting <& Co.
Mrs. and Mrs. ,1. Bedford and
daughter. Miss Lucile Hail, of
Ada, I. T., are spending a Mew
weeks in the city, visiting rela
tives and friends.
-1. V. McDonald left Tuesday
night-for his home at I)e Ann, af
ter a very pfeasant visit with rela
tives and friends at this place and
in the vicinity of I)ota.
J. K. Harrelson and W.1I. Gire
of Dota were in town Wednesday
to meet Mrs. Mollie Bowlaby, who
came up from Prescott to spend a
few days visiting relatives.
U. E. 'J'omlinson and W. R.
Parsons of the Magness neighbor
hood were in town Wednesday and
had their names added to The
Journal’s growing subscription
i list.
J. W. Stone arrived home Wed
nesday from Fayetteville where
he attended the meeting of the I.
O. O. F. Grand Lodge, as a
representative of Newark En
campment.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Magness
and Mr. and .Mrs. J. Bedford and
daughter, Miss Lucile Hail, went
to Batesville Monday to spend a
day or two visiting Mr. and Mrs.
George Bevens.
C. E. Caldwell harvested the
honey from W. J. Littlefield
apiary Wednesday and secured
2,000 pounds. This is quite a nice
lot of honey, and shows that there
is money in keeping bees.
A. H. Saylors left a few days
ago for Fayetteville tu attend the
meeting of the 1.0. O. F. Grand
j Lodge, as the representative of
Newark Lodge No. 263. He will
probably arrive home today.
A scene that carried one’s mem
ory back some fifteen or twenty
j years was called to The Journal
man’s attention on the street Wed
i nesday. It was a yokf of oxen
j hitched to a farm wagon on which
; was a bale of cotton. Such were
i familiar objects fifteen or twenty
years ago% but the ox wagon as a
; means of transportation has be
! come so nearly obsolete that the
; appearance of one on the streets
causes comment and brings to the
mind’s eye of some of the older
citizens the times when this means
of horseless transportation was ex
tensively used in this part of the
country.
For Sale—Half block, four lots,
with two good frame houses, one
8-room and one 5-roorn, two wells,
good barn and nice young or
chard, all improvements up-to
date. Terms reasonable. J. II.
Murphy.
(L M. Fields of Pleasant Plains
was in town yesterday, en route
home from Little Hock, where he
went to see the President. Mr.
Fields has bought the Mu rtf prop
erty here and expects to move to
town in a short time.
The county commissioners of ac
counts who ha' been in session
at Batesville for several days
checking up the county officials,
have finished their labors, and
Squire Tharp who was a member
of the board, is now at home
again.
For a superior quality of honey,
see Littlefield. This is superior to
i the ordinary honey and the differ
i ence will surprise you. Mr. Lit
tlefield will gladly explain to you
how to produce such honey that
always brings a handsome price;
and would also like to show you
iiis apiary and method of handling
bees for profit. He ^ill pay the
highest market price for all your
beeswax.
MAGNESS MUSINGS.
We need some wood!
Tom Moore of Newark was in
Magness Wednesday.
Faris Rice of Sulphur Rock was
in our city Wednesday.
Dr. Wylie Hodges of Sulphur
Rock was in town Wednesday.
Will McArthur of Newark was
in town a few days this past week.
Several of the boys are attend
ing court this week at Batesville.
Andy Brooks of Newark was
seen on our streets one day this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Ilartsfield
of Sulphur Rock were v isiting here
Monday.
Miss Alice Young has been con
tined to her room this week, on ac
count of chills and rainy weather.
W. E. Gresham returned last
week from Hill and other western
counties in Texas. He thinks
Texas a fine country, but we don’t
think he will move.
Mrs. Will Shields died last Sun
day and was buried Monday at
Macedonia. She leaves a husband,
two small children, parents, two
sisters and a host of friends to
mourn her loss.
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
During the twelve months end
ing dune 30 of this year, Ssg per
sons were killed and 13,783 injur
ed as the result of accidents on
railroad trains in the United
States, according to a report of
the Interstate Commerce Oonimis
j sion issued at Washington Mon
; day. __________
KING OUT OF THE RACE.
HorugDavid L. King of Sharp
county has issued a statement an
nouncing his withdrawal from the
race for governor. He says he if
too poor and has too many depen
dences to continue the fight when
| he can see nothing but defeat.
GEN. ROBT. L. ROGERS
HERE MONDAY NIGHT
Addressed a Fair Sized Audience a6
the Ratton Hali and Made
Many New Friends.
Attorney General Robt. L. Rog
ers, candidate for governor, ad
dressed a good sized audience afc
the Ratton hall here Monday
night.
Mr. Rogers began by giving a
history of the railroad tax com
promise suits. He dwelt upon the
necessity of the equalization of
taxes, and showed where the State
had lost heavily in the comprom
ise with the railroads. Private
individuals were not permitted to
pay their taxes at the rate of bO
per cent of what their property
was actually assessed at by the as
sessor, and he did not believe in
allowing railroads or other cor
porations to do that, as had been
allowed in the recent railroad
cases. He also mentioned the ex
orbitant fee received by Senator
Clarke, as attorney for the State,
in effecting the compromise. Thir
ty thousand dollars, he said,would
pay the salary of a United States
senator for six years, or would
pay the salary of the governor of
Arkansas for ten years, or pay the
attorney general's salary for
twelve years, yet Senator Clarke
was paid this amount for repre
senting the State in this ^wlroad
case itnd^dlowing the railroads to
| evade the payment of 40 per cent
of the taxes they were justly due
! the State.
He referred to tne great re
sources of the State, and said that
if elected governor he would be
the peoples’ governor and knovr
no section, and that no clique or
ring was sponsor for his candi
dacy.
He then branched out into a dis
cussion of the charges brought
against him by Governor Davis.
His defense of himself was very
forcible, and, judging from the
vigorous applause given this part
of his speech, we believe it is safe
to say that he convinced the audi
ence that • Governor Davis, like
Pat O’Flannery, was taking in too
much territory, and meddling’
where he had no business. Gen
i eral Rogers stated that he did not
meddle in the senatorial race be
tween Governor Davis and Sena
tor Berry; that in fact, he did not
care whom the people voted for
for senator, but he questioned the
governor’s right to dictate to the
people of Arkansas as to whom
they should elect governor.
He was frequently greeted by
prolonged applause, and we think:
it is safe to say that his speecli
here made him many new friends.
Hon X. O. Pindall of Arkansas
i City, candidate for attorney gen
eral, and Hon. .1. W. Crockett,
candidate for railroad commission
er, also addressed the audience,the
former making a splendid speecli
which was well received.
SCHOOL FURNITURE.
School directors are reminded,
i that Craig & Henderson of New
ark still handle school furniture
and apparatus of all kinds, and are
| prepared to sell first-class goods at
low prices. If you expect to buy
anything in their line see or write
: to them and you will have prompt
1 attention.
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