The Russellville Democrat., 1877-11-08
RICH, RARE AND KACY.

esot III cifG titbtV ttAAii1otQA VAtSh w made last week that we are getting tired of the State Finance question, and true to it's policy of presenting this matter in false lights, it tries to make it appear that we are tired of our position on the question. Lay not this fiatterine nnction to your sonl, Bro. Mitchell, for it is not our eposITToN" at all that we are tired of. We are simply tired of trying to argue the question with men who dodge all figures and argu ments, and rely upon ridicule and sarcasm to carry their points as you are doing. To show what weighty arguments the chief paper of the Scalers use we subjoin the comments of the Gazette upon the little article in our last paper, headed Hired of it":
 Yes, we are getting tired of this State debt matter. We are tired thinking and writing about 1t. We expect our readers are tired reading about it, but let us tell you, friends, that so long as there are efforts be- ins made to fasten additional bur- dens upon the already overburdened tax payers of Arkansas, 1t behooyes us to watch the schemers and try to expose and thwart their schemes. It is the fight of the taxpayer against the bondholder. It is tue struggle of the interest-pay against the usurer. 1t is struggle for self lfpreseryatien. We. feel that we owe our readers no apology for de voting so much space to this matter. It will soon be over. It is now pretty evident that the Legislature will be convened this winter, and the plan proposed by the bondhold- CTS proposed because 1t will pour compound interest into their greedy maws-will be either eonsummated or defeated.--[ Russellville Democrat.
 We were perfectly certain long ago that the repudiation papers would become tired of their position. The recollection of what some of them have written should keep them tired" forever. But they should have no rest. All the time admit ting their earnest desire to pay the 1 legal debts of the State, now that they are met with proposition that contemplates nothing more, they suddenly change front, and begin to talk about Fastening additional bur dens" upon the taxpayers. Out of thelr own mouths are they condemn ed. Time and again this very pa
 ner-the Russellville Democrat-has insisted on providing for the pay ment of the legal debt, at the earii- est moment. Now, when we are asked to do this, it talks vaguely ! about watching schemers and expos 1 inc and thwarting their schemes. l N here is the scheme and who are the schemers: Arkansas will be
 asked to pay the amount of her legal
 and undisputed debt Is there . scheme in this:
 ] The Governor of the State, the ! Finance Board, and hundreds and 1 thousands of the best citizens in I every quarter of the State, tell the
 people that the plan proposes only ! the payment of their just oeliga- tioas, and that such proposition Is fair and equitable. Are they schem- CTS? When the creditors of the State are asked to compromise with
 us. to bring forward their old bonds
 and accept new ones aggregating, as all parties now admit, only the just debt. are we to be told that 1t is q
 scheme" and the men who are bringing it about '1schemerss But how exalted the patriotism, how sublime the devotion and self, sacri- fee of these repudiation editors Tn
 standing for the taxpayer against the bond holder" We have the idea exactly. Adams and Redfeld, Gov. Miller and the Finance Board
 and nineteen -twentieths of the lead I ing men of Arkansas are the '1scheln- ers'' on the one side, and between them and the dear people who are to be robbed of their substance stand like stone walls the heroic tishbaek and a few followers, with a score of
 repudiation editors. The fight grows warm. The white plume of Fish back waves in the thickest of the combat, and the curly locks of the young man of the Ozark Democrat are shaken in rage. The hoarse
 notes of the stalwart Watson rever-
 berating along the summits Of the i Boston Mountains, railying the re- pudiztors 10 the rescue, and upon
 every blacksmith shop, and upon all
 the pine trees of the Ozark range,
 are to be found his essays on the
 beauties and glories of repudiation. The editor of the Forum pours scon-
 cation" into the ranks of the oppo-
 sition. The editor Of the Argus and
 Hawes Coleman mingle stia in the
 fray, shoulder to shoulder ID behalf
 of the dear, dear people
 But all at once the line begins to
 waver. The head center, the Hot ] S,.,.;,,rrg rNe.la.s,,.sf nh bpf.ornes silent