The Russellville Democrat., 1893-04-27

Company of Columbus, Ohio. one normal school for colored teach CTS.
 About two years ago Hon. F. F. Laws opened, at his own expense, in the village of Beebe, a free daily Bible school, which has constantly grown in interest until it now has membership of 235, and an average daily attendance of thirty-five. 1 know of no other such institution in the world. The good it is aceomp- fishing should awaken general in terest and general inquiry through out Christendom.
 While within the past thirteen years the south has expended $216, 000,000 in the free educalion of the the youths of our section, in Arkan- sas we have expended during the same period $l0, 100000, with an av craze of 350,000 children.
 SYSTEM OF LAWS.
 Itwere enough perhaps to say of our system of laws that two years ago the congress controlled by DO litical party not in sympathy with the majority of our people, selected from the statutes of Arkansas the entire body of laws by which one of the Territories of the Union is gov erned-
 lam very much in doubt if there is community in the world ofequal population where the laws are more generally enforced and obeyed than in this State.
 The carrying of concealed weap- ons is, in Arkansas crime, and the officers of the law are themselves li- able to prosecution if they fail to prosecute offenders against this statute.
 TEMPERANCE.
 Our temperance laws are said by competent judges to be in advance of those of any other State because, being the result of evolution, grow ing by degrees and taking hold of one community at time as public sentiment in that community is ed ucated up to an appreciation of their importance, the laws upon this sub ject are easily and completely en- forced.
 In every county the people vote at each biennial election for or against license, and even when the counties vote for license, a majority of the male and female adults in any neigh borhood may vote it away from within three miles of any church or school house by petition to the coun- ty authorities.
 Under this process of evolution, and with the aid of female votes or petitions, we have gradually driven license out of some thirty-fve of the seventy-fve counties, and away from more than 1000 churches and school houses.
 Animated by such religious sur roundings, enlightened by such edu cational facilities and protected by l such a system of laws, our people | enjoy exceptional safety, both of life and property.
 coLoRED PEOPLE.
 The colored race are found in | only in about a third of the State
 The race problem is here no long CT a problem. Matters have adjust ed themselves in accordance with common sense. The Australian bal lot has eleminated all danger from ignorance and the free public school system is fast educating the negro m the duties of citizenship The Christian doctrine of the universal brotherhood of man has thrown round him the mantle of protection n all his rights, both as a man and IS citizen. He stands before the aw the equal of all other men. Yet le had at last accepted the doctrine hat the white man ought and will 'ule this country.
 CLIMATE.
 Our climate is proverbially geni- Il and healthy in the greater part of he State. Our death rate is much 'maller than in most of the North 'rn States, while our birth rate is nearly double that of most of our lister States of the North.
 The climate of Arkansas is so fav 'rable to both animal and vegetable fife that the census of 1880 1T have 10 access to that of 1890 yet shows he money value per acre of her arm products to be greater than hat of any other state in the Union xcept Louisiana In one portion { f the State the apple attains that has not been found anywhere else in the United States. They have excelled wherever dis 'layed in competition. A commissioner sent out by the latent office in 1859 reported to the Government that Arkansas is SO 7 rpll adapfad fa fha onlt.mn 4 AL