Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-10-25

not only live but also by an honest ef- fort accumulate a surplus for rainy dsy.
 The Men Arkansas Invites.
 He who sells a comfortable home in Iowa or any other state for the purpose of going where he can acquire as good a one where conditions are more prom ising is the man to whom Arkansas ex- tends special invitation. Such men are enterprising. They are men who bring money as well as new ideas, and, as rule, are among the foremost to adopt the most advanced methods of the day. Men who are easily satisfied and content with what they can obtain without much effort are not the most efficient class to develop a country. Old communities with established methods are opposed to innovation, while new communities, constituted largely of en- terprising and venturesome spirits, in- tuitively grasp after the best laws, methods and institutions. These marks of distinction bring the new west and the old east into contrast. Eastern folks now go west to find improved con- ditions. Arkansas bids for men of en- ergy and enterprise. It solicits men of capital and genius.
 Brief Introspection.
 When we take an introspective view we see wherein we have erred in our industrial and economic policy We have trodden too loyalty in the path of tradition. Our history. in brief, is this: We have titled the soil and lived. Mean time our northern neighbors have util- ized their talents and diversified indus tries regardless of tradition and the be- nests of venerated custom. In word, they have abandoned agriculture when ever they could discover something more remunerative, and by so doing gained wealth. When we study statis- sics of the progressive increase of wealth of the New England and mid dle states we find ourselves in the rear. One of Shakespeare characters says: '"Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus" We have given the art of agri- culture-the business of farming-the test. We can subsist by it, but we can not keep pace in the race for wealth. We are not satisfied to simply exist
 
 creasing in industrial strength and ac- cumulating wealth. We must at least manufacture the implements and tools we use in tilling the soil, and by 80 doing diminish the volume of money which flows out of the state to support northern foundries and factories.
 Campaign of Education.
 The citizens of Arkansas must se- riously study the question of establish ing mills and manufactories and inform themselves on the subject of how and by what means productive industries can be increased. They can easily con- vince themselves of the urgency of so doing by meditating on the vast sums of money we send out of the state yearly for machinery and implements that can and should be made within the state. It is the duty of the ne ws- papers and public spirited citizens of the state to press the subject upon the attention of the people. ''It is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings" in the race for commercial and industrial supremacy. We have simply clung too long to mother earth. Agriculture should not be abandoned by any means. On the contrary, it should be pushed and developed, and with it we must have manufactories. The public must encourage and sustain the efforts that are now being made to induce capitalists to come and esta blish factories to transform the minerals and timber and other materials into articles which we now buy in other states. The strength of conviction which pervades the minds of thoughtful men in the line of improved conditions will find express sion when political topics are disposed of and the masses have time to think soberly of business affairs which di- rectly concern them. The people of Arkansas, while slow to move, are ire sistible when they have come to adopt measure or advocate a cause which reason and judgment tell them is for their benefit and advancement What now remains is for them to resolve that the single industry idea-agriculture- {c detrimental n the Stata and bo f