The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1905-03-25
The HaIf Not Told.

readers to hear the story twice told,
"Plaee the Blame. . The Echo man,
whoever he may be has taken a
great fall out with the ARKANSAS
scribe because oil my statement oil
the facts concerning the death Of
Homer Clark, who died with what
the "Yellyille board Of butchers
said was smallpox, and calls that
article infamous Islander Let me
tell yen right here there is a penalty
provided under the laws of Arkan
sas for reports coming under the
head of slandefous reports; and like
all citizens of of this good state,
am amenable to the law. In my ar,
ticle in the TIMES | sought to Sian,
der neither men or communities, but
| reserve my individual rights, re.
CARELESS party or pride, to eon6ne
myself to facts; and when Il strictly
news item Of interest to the public
comes within my grasp, and | have
favor with a journal of sufficient
manhood and moral stamina to put
that news before the people; YOU
may bet your last dollar it's readers
get the bottom facts from every
letter. with my name attached there
to, and no journal that love as
love the HARRISON TIMES will ever
be asked to publish falsehood from
my pen; but when the town and
county papers of Marion county
refused to give the facts concerning
an outrage perpetrated upon a fell
low man; and am so fortunate as
to find a journal that will admit my
statement of the facts CLEANED upon
the spot, who doubts that | would
be carefully guarded III my state
ments Let me here state that not
less than twenty citizens of north
Ycllville proflered to sign an en-
dorsement to that article, "Place
the Blame, and vet | did not give
all the facts in that damnable case.
In addition to this offer of sanction
Mr. & Q. Seawell told me if did
not take the facts to the HARRISON
TIMES, he would place the facts be-
fore the people through the columns
of the Cotter Courier; besides many
good people expressed their angry
sentiments concerning the outrage
in Clark case No. |. Perhaps it
will be next in order for the Echo to
explain to the honorable citizens of
Arkansas. Yellville's premises with
regard to the shotgun quarantine"
enforced upon case No. . which her
board of health butchers inflicted
upon the pooi. unfortunate foot
sore small poS victim, who at this
very date Mar. Isl lies within her
gates, sheltered from the stormy
gale i'll a dog tent i'll the cedar
glades of "EIelI's hall-acre,' poorly
provided for, if provided for at all.
Let me here call Your attention to
the editorial comment in the Arkan-
sas Gazette on this very victim,
Homer Clark, and do not blame me
for giving the facts at home. Per-
haps the Echo will oblige a doubt
ing world with photographs of the
"comrade Swede" who nursed
Homer Clark and assisted him in
breaking his nose. when, as | said,
unat TENDED he "fell from his bunk, ?"
and give us a landscape sketch of
his isolated grave on Lees mount
ain. among Marion county's hon
ored dead" Arkansas will put in
plaster cast the memory of any
man, be he Swede or Scandinavian,
who will press cup of water TO
the parched and dying lips of fell
low man; he he a Rudolph, who
died Yesterday for a crime, or a
Clark who dies by neglect. Clark S
home was at Hattiesburg, Miss.
issippi. There, he told us, he bad a
wife and father, whose devotion and
Christian love were his souls salts
faction. Great God4 is it possible
that human life is held so cheap in 6
city of churches, whose great bell:
proclaim the gathering of thos'
who pretend to worship one who
broke bread with ,beggars, and who
slept in the brush, and who coulC
not have eaten a meal in peace
while one of Gods creatures
stricken with pain and unattended
lay dying within reach OF bells thai
pealcd his praise In the case o
Homer Clark | owned no ass, upor
which might, like the Good Samar
itan, convey him to the tavern anC
provide for his wants Fate strucl
hin, down IN y city. where there aT,