The Forrest City times., 1905-01-13

$500: George Mclean. $500; Arkansas Pump and Pipe Company. $500; Charles Dugan. s1.000; r. w Gibb $500; W. K. Casey. $1.000: IT. c. Stinson. $500; James GaribaId $500: C. H. Wllmans, s1 900; Bank of Atkins $500. Ad Bertg. 1000: Herman Kahn s1.000; J. r. Morehcad. $500; A. Brizzolara. $500. making sum total of s16.500. with which we have met and discharged every obligation under this arrangement up to the present time.
 Fellow-servants' Bill.
 Gentlemen. one of the most worthy class of our citizenship is the employee on railroad trains. Their work is nee essarily hazardous: it takes a man of brave spirit and one ready and will ing to work to engage In it, and many thousand helpless women and chill dren in this state are dependent upon this class of our citizens for their main tenance and support
 think that the legislature of this state ought to meet this question fairly and squarely: they ought to say to the 1 railroad corporations of this state and to the courts of the country. When you employ a man and put him at this l hazardous business. you are supposed to employ as his co-laborers only such persons as are competent and trust l | these co-laborers alone and without | fault or carelessness upon his part he | is injured. then the railroad must re- | spond in damages to his wife and chill dren. just it would to the wife and children of any other injured person | upon it's trains"
 Wild Cat Insurance Companies. l A great deal of complaint has come 1 to my office. growing out of the fact .I,at FAr. 1,.. and with very little standing. have gone into what is called wild cat fire | insurance in this state They insure | any character and kind of property. promise all sorts of protection in case i of fire, two or three loafers the l street draw large salaries out of the premius paid by honest though ignorant l and unsuspeeting victims of their graft: l fire comes. the company "busts," and there is nothing to pay with. and that | class of citizens. who are not able to 1 be thus swindled. are ruined
 Necessarily the business they do. they do with the poorer element of our eiti zenship. who own small homes and small farms. These people are not able to have any such frauds practiced upon | them as is being done in Arkansas to- day, and I charge you especially to make the fire insurance laws so rigid in this state that these little wild cat mutual companies that have been doing an illegitimate business in this state may be stamped out.
 Reformation of the Wine Law Gentlemen, We have in our state a hardy class of mountaineers largely of German descent. who have been in vited to our state on account of it's won derful productiveness in grape culture. They have taken up many waste places. land that the ordinary American citizen could not make a living upon. and built for themselves splendid homes and are making good law w-abiding citizens. They took us at our word and have planted vineyards, growing grapes and making wine. Their ideas the temperance question are perhaps q little crude; they do not quickly adjust themselves to the conditions along this line that exist in this state.
 I call your special attention to this so that you may pass some sensible, | plain. unambiguous statute regulating l the sale of native wine in this state.
 State University.
 | l visited this institution a shore time 1 ago and was struck very forciblv with the uncomfortable. and I might add un- 1 healthy, quarters occupied by the poor CT boys of the university.
 Altogether in the dormtory I think we have about two hundred and fifty | young men. l found that their rooms | were poorly furnished. in great many | instances. and that the sanitary condi- | tion not of the best: so much so that they were threatened with an cpl demic of typhoid fever. originating. in | my judgment. from the uncleanliness 1 and unsanitary condition of the dormi- tory and it's surroundings
 Another matter of the dormitorv to which I call your attention is this: A | lF ( there to school. are unable to buy first class beds. bedding and fixtures for their rooms. therefore thr dOrmitorV presents an untidy and often an unclean | appearance. and does not make boy feel that pride in its sanitation that he would were he more pleasantly sur rounded: and I recommend that in your appropriation for the university you provide each room in the dormitory with a white iron bedstead and mattress a strong. substantial table and chairs. and a neat. substantial dresser this furniture to be the property of the state and cared for under the most strict military regulations. This would enable every boy to have his room fur nished well and comfortable as that of every other boy and present a neat and tidy appearance. such as will give him pleasure to maintain.
 A dormitory that would accommo- date. say. one hundred young ladies. presided over by one of the faculty and his family. together with the lady teachers of the university. who should be required to room there. would be a helpful acquisition and one which the state could well afford to maintain would suggest that it be built some where in the residence portion of .the city and not upon the campus. and ~ it's management and discipline be such as characterizes the most up-to-date fe- male seminaries of the country.
 Segregation of School Taxes.
 The most cruel blow that was ever struck helpless and defenseless people was the action of the general govern ment in placing in the hands of an ignorant. illiterate and irresponsible race of people the ballot of q freeman. giving them the same rights and priv ileges under the general government as were exercised by their former masters
 The civil war. the history of which is written in the best blood of the south, might have been forgotten and it's memory placed tenderly behind us hoi 1aft