The Monticellonian., 1905-01-19
Xr7ouGurol 4Address of Goa. Do,0is

1 $500: George Mclean. $500; Arkansas l Pump and Pipe Company. $500; Charles | Dugan, $1,00O; r. W. Gibb. $500; W. k. l Casey. $100O: II. C. Stlnson $500; 1 James Garibaldi. $500; c. H Willmans. S1 900; Bank of Atkins. $500; Ad Brrtig. 1 $1000; Herman Kahn, $1.0Oo; J. r. | Morehead. $500; A. Brizzolara, $500. making a sum total of $16.5Q0 with which We have met and discharged ] every obligation under this arrangement J up to the present time.
 Fellow-Servants' Bill. Gentlemen. one of the most worthy i class of our citizenship is the employees l on railroad trains. Their work is nee esSarfly hazardous: it takes a man of 1 a brave spirit and one ready and will ing to work to engage in it. and many l thousand helpless women and chil= dren in this state are dependent upon this class of our citizens for their main tenanee and support
 I think that the legislature of this state ought to meet this question fairly i and sduarelY: they ought to say to the i railroad corporations of this state and | to the courts of the country. When l you employ man and put him at this hazardous business. you are supposed 1 to employ as his c8-laborers only such persons as are competent and trust | worthy. and if by the negligence of these co-laborers alone and without 1 fault or carelessness upon his part he is injured, then the railroad must re- | snend In damages to his wife and chill dren. just as it would to the wife and children of any other injured person upon it's trains"
 Wild Cat Insurance Companies.
 A great deal of complaint has come to my office. growing out of the fact that q few adventurers without means and with very little standing. have gone into what is called wild eat fire insurance" in this state They insure any character and kind of property | promise all sorts of protection in case of fire two or three loafers on the street draw large salaries out of the premius paid by honest though ignorant and unsuspectng victims of their graft a fire comes, the company "busts," and there is nothing to nay with. and that class of citizens. who are not able to be thus swindled, are ruined
 Necessarily the business they do. they do with the poorer element of our citl- | zenship. who own small homes and small farms. These people are not able to have any such frauds practiced upon i 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 eat mutual eompanies that have been doing an illesitimate business in this state may be stamped out.
 Reformation of the Wine Law.
 Gentlemen. We haNe In our state hardy class of mountaineers. largely of German descent. who have been in | vitea 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 living upon, and built l for themselves splendid homes and are making good. law-abidiug citizens. They took us at our word and have planted vineyards. growing grapes and making i wine. Their ideas on the temperance question are perhaps a little crude; | they do not quickly adjust themselves to the conditions along this line that exist in this state.
 call your special attention to this so that you may pass some sensible. plain. unambieuous statute regulating l the sale of native wine in this state.
 State University.
 visited this institution shore time ago and was struck very forciblv with i the uncomfortable, and I might add un- healthy. quarters occupied by the poor CT boys of the university.
 Altogether in the dormitory I think we have about two hundred and fifty young men. I found that their rooms were poorly furnished. in great many instances, and that the sanitary eondi- tion was not of the best: much so that they were threatened with an epi- demic of typhoid fever. originating. in my judgment, from the uncleanliness and unsanitary condition of the dormi- tory and it's surroundings.
 Another matter of the dormitory to which l call your attention is this: A great many of these boys, when they go there to school are unable to buy first class beds. bedding and fixtures for { thprafnrR ba presents an untdy and often an unclean appearance and does not make a boy feel that pride in it's sanitation that he would were he more pleasantly sur 1 rounded: and 1 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 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 as well and as comfortable as that of every other boy and present neat and tidy appearance. such as will give him pleasure to maintain.
 A dormitory that would aecommo- 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 helpful acquisition and one which the state could well afford to maintain I would suggest that it be built some | where in the residence portion of the city and not upon the campus, and let it's management and discipline be such i as characterizes the most up-to-date fe- male semnaries of the country
 Segregation of School Taxes.
 The most cruel blow that was ever struck a 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 a 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. | had We not been left constant re hinder of it's many cruelties and bar i barities by the evcr-present eating, i cankerous sore, the negro and his bal l lot.
 Attempted education proves harmful 1 rather than beneficial, so I have come to the point where L for one. am will | ing to step out and say from this day forward let the negroes in Arkansas l educate themselves, if if is possible; | let the sympathy for them come from | this carpetbag element that keeps them | constantly in cemmotion;" and I most heartily recommend that at this session 1 of the legislature you pass such a law l segregating the school taxes of this l state. as that the negroes may receive | the benefit of the taxes collected from their property. and the white children | repaiv. tho benefit Df the taxes poIIscf-