SOCIALISTIC CLAIMS UNFOUNDED
Their Claim That the World is
(jrowing Worse is Untrue and
Without Foundation.
Socialist writers and speakers
insist that the richer the world
grows the more poor people there
are. If we are to believe them,
poverty increases at a rate much
atiore rapidly than the accumula
tion of riches, which will eventu
ate in a situation more deplorable
than ever before seen in the world.
Jack London, the author of cer
tain story books, who seems to be
considerable of a crank on eco
nomic* questions, made a speech in
Chicago recently in which he de
clared that ten million people in
the United States were actually
starving. Debs who spoke at Lit
tle Rock a short time ago dwelt
upon the dark side of life and pre
dicted a panic, and the same is true
of nearly all Socialist speakers.
It would be well for people who
think and write and speak in this
way to refresh their minds by
Tending a few volumes of ancient
history. Beginning with the lirst
dawn of civilization, and running
down all through the centuries
that preceded the Christian era,
then over that dark and dismal
period, which is known as the
middle ages and even down to
what is known as modern times,
the rule was universal that the
great masses of people in all coun
tries were either absolutely desti
tute or living from hand to mouth.
It is only necessary to read the
l>ooks of the hi bio which stretch
over a period of about fifteen cen
turies, to find out that the Jewish
people never enjoyed even in a
modified degree what now goes
by the name of prosperity. It
was the same in all the countries
of Asia, in tin* Isles of (ireece, in
the mighty Roman Empire at the
lieight of its glory and in every
other country under the sun.
Notwithstanding what the .social
ists and other preachers of discon
tent may say, poverty, such as
was known through all these troub
led centuries, is practically non
existent in the United States. All
this talk about the world getting
worse and about there being more
poverty now than formerly, is the
veriest rant and nonsense. The
statement is not only not true but
it is conspicuously false, as any
one may find out who will make a
-comparative study of the different
periods. Organized charity, in
the modern sense of that term,
was comparatively unknown to
the ancient world.
Civilization has wrought won
ders for the world and in no way
no remarkable as the increase of
comforts, multiplication of the
means of employment, improve
ment in health by the extension of
sanitary science and the elimina
tion of hundreds of abuses due
mainly to ignorance and oppress
ion. Civilization is a compact
-organization for the preservation
•of all the units and to bind the
whole more firmly together. It
is not exactly charity which does
Jill this, but modern, mutual aid
through every conceivable form
of operation, which even goes to
the point of preserving burden
some units, that can never render
material assistance. The world is
rfar from perfect, the poor we
have with us always, injustice in
various forms and burdensome in
equalities still remain as blights
vpon human endeavor, but it also
remains indisputably true that the
world of today, especially that
part which includes the United
States, is so infinitely superior in
all respects to any past period of
history, that the fact will become
plainly manifest to any one who
will dispassionately investigate the
subject.
OIL TROUGH TINKMNS.
Farming is somewhat retarded.
Some chills and fever in our
neighborhood.
W. (). Moore has been making
some improvements on his store
building.
(). X. Lamb, who was hurt sev
eral da.vs ago by a falling tree, is
getting along very nicely.
Joe Outlaw visited relatives at
Jamestown Monday and heard the
address of Hon. Robert L. Rog
ers.
More new houses going up and
our town is still on the boom. We
will draw a railroad our way some
day.
The Good Book says “Remem
ber the Sabbath, to keep it holy,”
but some of the boys seem to have
forgotten.
It. seems that we are right on
the verge of an overflow, as the
river has been rising rapidly for
several days.
The Oil Trough Merc. Co. has
added a saw-mill to the gin at this
place, which will be a great bene
iit to the community.
We had a nice quiet wedding
Thursday night; Oscar Miller to
Miss Lula Shirley. We wish
them a long happy life.
Torture by Savages
“Speaking of the torture to
which some of the savage tribes
in the Philippines subject their
captives,reminds me of t he intense
suffering I endured for three
months from inflammation of the
kidneys,” says W.M. Sherman of
Cushing, Me. “Nothing helped
me until I tried Electric Bitters,
three bottles of which completely
cured me.” Cures liver complaint
dyspepsia, blood disorders and
malaria ; and restores the weak
and nervous to robust health.
Guaranteed by J. I. Sturdivant,
druggist. Price 50 cents.
SCHOOL FURNITURE.
School directors are reminded
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
attention.
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A Lively Tussle
With that old enemy of the race |
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ENOS TOMLINSON CASE AFFIRMED
Young Han at Magness Wins Suit
in Supreme Court Against
Railroad Company.
In the supreme court of Arkan
sas last Saturday, Mr. Justice
Hattie delivered the opinion of the
court in the case of the St. Lcuis
Iron Mountain & Southern lUil
way Company against Enos J.
Tomlinson of Magness.
This was an action instituted by
Enos Tomlinson, a boy of eleven
years of age, against the Iron
Mountain railroad for damages
sustained by him in an accident
which occurred at Magness some ,
two years ago. The boy was rid- i
ing in a wagon with his father and
brother, when he was struck by '
an engine pulling the pay train j
and very severely injured, his
skull being fractured and suffer
ing other injuries. He sued for
$20,000 and was given judgment
in the circuit court for $15,000.
| The railroad company appealed
i the case to the supreme court and
that tribunal passed upon the case
I Saturday, affirming the judgment'
, of the lower court.
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ENTIRE FAMILY DEAD.
The entire Whaling family con*
| sitting of four members, the moth
er, two sons and one daughter,
living three miles north of Van
Buren, died of pneumonia within
one week. Margaret Whaling,
aged 80 years, died March 15; ,1.
M. Whaling, 55, died March 19,
,J. A. Whaling, 50, and Mrs. Mary
Schaffer, 47, died March 22.
A grandson aged 16 years, the
only surviving descendent of the
family, is threatened with the
same disease.
Doctors are Puzzled.
The remarkable recovery of Ken
neth Mclver of Yanceboro, Me. is j
the suojecl of much interest to ‘
the medical fraternity and a wide
circle of friends lie says of his
case, ‘‘Owing to severe inflamma
tion of the ihroat and congestion
of the lungs three doctors gave me i
up to die,when, as a last lesort, I
was induced to try I)r. Kings New
Discovery and I am happy to say i
it saved mv life.” Cures the worst
coughs and colds, bronchitis, ton- j
aiiitis,weuk lungs, hoarseness and
lagrippe. Guaranteed asSturdi-j
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