The Russellville Democrat., 1891-04-16
PUBLIC MISFORTUNE.
Opinions of Leading state Papers on the senate's Action on the Worlds Fair
 Appropriation.
Compliments os Questionable Character to the Senate, where the Brl Was
 Defeated.

aEucic III LIE AkkANSAS DEMOCRAT. Our people should take prompt and earnest action on this matter. Benton Leader.
 Gov. Eagle should call an extra session of the senate and have it pass an appropriation for the purpose of placing barb wire fence around the state so as to keep immigration ont.
 -Marianna Index.
 THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT is justly exercised over the fsilnre of the legis- lature to appropriate money to have the state represented at the Worlds Fair. The Ozark Democrat endorses the suggestion made to Gov. Eagle. Ozark Democrat.
 From this standpoint the failure of the senate to pass the house bill ap- propriating s30,0 to make col lection for exhibition at the Worlds Fair, is most unfortunate thing, and relegstes Arkansas to the re ar for a long time to come. Rural Workman.
 We endorse the position of THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT and commend it to the careful consideration of our readers. Arkansas can not afford to lag behind in this great question. The Sevier bill, which passed the house, appropriating $30,000 for display of the resources of the state at the Worlds Fair, was 8 good measure and should have passed the senate. te.-Lafsyette Recorder.
 The state that isn't represented at the Worlds Fair by full and com plete exhibit of its products aud re- sources, together with well and care- fully prepared statements of the ad- vantages it has to offer capital as well as labor, will deliberately throw away chance to obtain advertising that could not fail, if intellieently directed, to add millions of dollars to the value of property in the state. It would simply be impossible to invest the peoples money in a better way than in thus advertising their state. Prescott Picsyune.
 Just before adjournment the house passed bill approp-iating $50, 1000 for Arkansas exhibits at the Worlds Fair, but the senate, true to it's moss- back instincts, defeated it.
 What will the people of Arkansas think of the senators who frittered away the entire session and twenty three days extra at s6 per day, and finally wound up their brilliant CD career by defeating the Worlds Fair bill? Such men are better fitted to direct the course of mule up a corn row than to legislate for an intelli- gent people. -Hackett City Horse Shoe.
 We regret to note the humiliating fact that our legislature failed to make an appropriation for an exhibit of our resources at the Worlds Fair. If any state in the union needed such an ex- hibit 1t is Arkansas. For long years it has been lied about, ridiculed and jeered at, when, as fact, it's re- sources in every way, it's soil, it's timber, it's mineral resources, it's waterways, it's immense undeveloped wealth, should command the admira- tion of the world. All it needs to put it in the front rank of American states is money, and the exhibit at the Worlds Fair was it's golden opportunity.
 The liberal, progressive citizens of Pope county will undoubtedly heartily indorse the proposition em- anating from Little Rock to hold state convention for raising the means necessary for full and con- plete exhibit at the Worlds Fair of the matchless resources of the state. It is the only way in which there is any hope for the people to have an opportunity to assert their state pride and demonstrate to the world that, despite legislative folly and penuriousness, Arkansas is no lag gard in the race for development and material progress. Let the governor call the convention, the people will respond. .--Russellville Democrat.
 The wise men of the state senate decided on last Friday that Arkansas should not be represented at the Worlds Fair in Chicago, and, when they did that, they gave the state the hardest blow she has received in many years. Attacks from the outside have little effect upon state, par ticularly if they are false, as have been those made against Arkansas by her slanderous enemies since recon. struction times, but this thrust from those who claim to be citizens of the state--who claim to have her best in- terests at heart, and who were en- trusted with the making of her laws IS blow from which it will take her many years to recover --Marianna Index.
 THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT in it's issue of the 4th inst, after chsrac- terizing the failure of the legislature to make an appropriation for an Ar kansas exhibit at the Worlds Fair as & public calamity, suggests that the governor call state convention, to be composed of representatives from every county in the state, selected by the people in