The Green Forest tribune., 1893-05-11

ingiby degrees and taking hold of
ono community at time as public
sentiment in that community is ed
uoated up to an appreciation OF
their importance, the laws upon
this subject are easily and complete
ly enforced.
In every county the people vote
at each biennial election for or
against license, and even when the
counties vote for license, q majority
of male and female adults in any
neighborhood may vote it away
from within three miles Of any
church or school honse by petition
to the county authorities.
Under this process OF evolution
and with the aid of female voters or
petitioners we have gradually driv-
en- license out of some thirty-tive
of the seventy-fve counties and
aw ay from more than 1000 church
es and school houses.
Animated by such religious sur
roundings, enlightened by such edu-
cational facilities, and protected by
such system Of laws, our people
enjoy exceptional safety, both Of
lite and property.
CoL0RED PEOPLE.
The colorod people are found in
numbers in only about one-third Of
the State. l travelled last summer
800 miles in the State and did not
see half a dozen negroes along the
entire route.
The race problem is here no
longera problem. Matters have
adjusted themselves in accordance
with common sense. The ustral-
ian ballot has eliminated all danger
from ignorance and the free public
school system is fast educating the
negro in the duties of citizenship.
The christian doctrine Of the uni
versal brotherhood Of man has
thrown around him mantle of pro-
lection in all his rights, both as d
man and as IL citizen. He stands
before our law the equal Of all other
men. Yet he has, at least, accept
ed the doctrine that the whiteman
ought and will rule this country.
CLIMATE.
Our climate is proverbially gem
ial and healty in the greater part of
the State. Cur death rate is much
smaller than IN most Of the North
ern States, while our birth rate is
nearly double that Of most of our
sister States of the North. TIE
surgeon general of the United
States army reports, | am informed,
the death rate of troops stationed
in Arkansas less than at any other
place in the United States.
The climate Of Arkansas is so fav-
orable to both animal and vegetable
lite that the census of 1880, q have
no access to that of 1890 yeti shows
the money value per acre Of her
farm products to be greater than
that of any other State in the Union
except Louisiana. In one portion
of the State the apple attains a per-
lection that has not yet been found
anywhere else in the United States.
They have excelled wherever dis
played In competition.
A commissioner sent out by the
patent Office in 1859 reported to
the govern ment that Arkansas is so
well adapted to the culture of the
grape that the rocky billsides of
the State, if planted to the vine,
would prove more valuable than
our best cotton lands. He said also
that wine made from one species of
our native grapes had been taken
to Europe and pronounced equal to
the best foreign wines.
But the other day the agricultu-
raj department of the United States
reports the sorgum OF Arkansas the
best in the United States.
But l beg to leave the agricul-
tural and horticultural resources of
Arkansas to Hon. w. G. Vincinhel-
Ter, extracts from whose paper up
on these subjects will be appended.
MINERALS.
There will be on exhibition from
Arkansas at Chicago soon, chunk
of crystalized carbonate of zinc ore,
having only about 10 per cent of
waste matter, weighing seven tons.
1t was together with another SIM
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