The Monticellonian., 1902-03-21

1 Bale press. It doesn' deny that MT. Bryan and the leading Demo- crats everywhere denied that it was a thrust. It doesn't intro duce q particle of proof to show that 1t is q trust, but contents it. self, by inuendoes. the very mean est and weakest modes of argu- ment, to try and induce the people ] to believe il is one.
 It says that Senator Jones dwelIs in palace and sends his children to be educated in Europe, and oc- casionally takes trips there him. self. This may be true, or untrue, so far as we know but if absolute ly true, it would be no more proof that the American Round Bale Co. is trust than the proof that if one man was honest all other men were dishonest. If Senator Jones educates his children in Europe it is no more than great many oth- CT Arkansas people do, and some of whom live in Monticello, and about the only difference in the cost of an education in this eoun- try and Europe, is the transporta- ton across the sea, which will not exceed $Ioo. So it is plain to be seen that It requires no millionaire to send child to school in Flu rope. Not very much more than 1t does to send one to Poughkeep- sic, New York. We do not know whether Senator Jones has ever senta child to Europe to have educated or not, for the private, personal matters of other people are something that do not concern Us in the least, and we have made no effort to find out. Senator Jones has taken one trip to Eu- rope, himself, and one only, and that one solely for the benefit of his health, and upon the advice of physicians. To attempt to make political capital out of the infrmi- ties of a fel!owman may be to the Advance the quintessence of bliss, and so far as we care 1t can claim a monopoly thereon.
 Again, for the benefit of the Ad- vance, we will say that the Presses of the American Round Bale Cot ton Bale Co.,, are for sale; and that the cotton pressed on the Presses of this company Is free to be sold to anybody The Compa- ny simply holds itself in readiness to buy at half cent per pound more than the square bale cotton will bring, in the market.
 There may be luminous point, the Advance makes, when it says that w. K. Roddy X Co.,, who purchased Round Bale cotton from Mir. Matthews, had to pay a royal ty of 20 cents per hundred to the Company, but We fail to see it l; for if Roddy & Co.,, could afford to pay the Company 20 cents roy atty, and then pay Mir Matthew s ive-eights more for the Round Bale Cotton than for the square bale, 1t seems to us an argument for rather than one against the Round Bale.
 The Advance is slightly mis- taken when it says that the other Round Bale presses are owned by individuals, for the truth of the matter is they are incorporated, just as the American Round Bale Company, and in this respect one of the Round Bale presses has no advantage over the other.
 We see that the Advance re- hashes that thread bare story about Senator Jones being millionaire, and owning eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of stock in the American Round Bale Company.
 This has been repeatedly denied by Senator Jones, and the books being open to his opponent, ex- Gov. Clarke, who is a member of this company, if Jones' statement was not true, the people would have long since been apprised of it. Senator ones says that he owns about three thousand five hundred shares of common stock in the company, which is mort gagged to the preferred stock-hold- CTS, and he has a standing offer to tlke twelve and a half cents on 1 the dollar for his entire stock in