The Monticellonian., 1901-12-06
VIEW AND REVIEW.


 sky; but in reality, when the eff fort is disrobed of its verbiage and acerbity, he is left plunging madly in the muddy vortex of wild despair.
 Ostensibly the object of the eff fusion was to induce his readers into the absurd notion that he knew all about when and how to plant peanuts and gourds;;' but the prime motive was to sing some more" the praises off his adored Clark, and incidental ly to slip his stiletto into the short-ribs of the editor of the MoNrIcELLoNIAN. Like the fabled bird of the desert, that runs all day and sticks it's bill in the ground at night and whis. pers: God save the Queen, , vainly imagining that the rest of its anatomy is hid from view, the Journal man pushed his nose behind an inuendo, and thus in blissful ignorance dreams that he is clear out of sight With  one foot on Caster Hill and the other on the West bank of the Great Father of Waters, he vo- citerously inquiries: What has Senator Jones, in his long ser vice. done for Arkansas besides achieving a national reputation? The question answers itself, for no man could have achieved a national reputation, who had failed in his duty to his people, and to intimate otherwise would be but a base reflection upon the integrity and wisdom of the fore most Democrats of the nation. But further along in this polem- ical contribution to current lit erature, we glean an inkling of what the Journal man wants, and that is a man who will en- gage in a grab game, right or wrong, for Arkansas and that, too, regardless of the fact as to whether or not the majority ot the people, even, of Arkansas, would be benefited. The great est fight that Clarke makes up- on Jones. and which the Journal is blindly, not to say foolishlv, taking up, is that when the Will son bill was before Congress, and Senator Jones had it in charge, he did not have a tariff placed on lumber. In the first place such measure would have been undemocratic, for 1t would have been protective, and noth- ing more, and in the second place 1t would have been unjust to the many people in Arkansas who have lumber to buy, to legislate in favor of the few who have lumber to sell.
 Again, If it should be desirable to have a tariff on lumber, and that is the only reason for send ing Mir. Clarke to the Senat te, (as his advocates seem to think since they never cease to harp about 1t, ) then this reason has been ob- viated by the Republican Ding lev bill, which is now the law, and places a protective tariff tax of $2 per thousand on sawed lumber; as we'll as raises the tax on every other conceivable thing which the masses have to buy. And this Dingley bill, Mir. Clarke says, is better than the Wilson bill, and thus far, if no further, he is cheek by-jowl with the Re publicans, and those who are ad- vocating his cause, for the same reason. are not one whit better
 A learned Judge, of Arkansas, once said that he had read of the whangdoodle and thought it cross between a black-snake and a yoke of steers, but had after wards found it to be a Republi- can that didn't know any better. Perhaps, Clarke and his follow CTS may come under this cata- gory, and the editor of the Ark ansas City Journal may be one of them.
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