Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
THE FIGHT NOW Mo Up to Common People Whetba, r..,. shall Have Benefits of G.
 Country Roads.

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 h'SdaE s Gazottc Will indie. T,....,
 clearly ~haf the above .r5if ifr-,,- l means:
 The suit of )he Cotton Roll :. flra..
 against SheriIf and ColIcctar l,r.,,
 aush attacking the eaIiaifv= Inf t,,a '"ad 'aN amendment to the constitu.
 toh' Which was set for 4 boarjao.
 yesterday in chanccry court, was co.,
 'itaed until next Saturday morning l a' eeloek at the request of lhD=Ht l fofhe%s Of the plaintiff This reauz,t Nas made onll account of the in.,t;lz
 ny ot Sam West. gene,gl attornevnf 1 the Cotton Belt. to be present fa l Will De her" Saturday m9fnina nd ! VIII appear for the railroad t0aefhor
 With Bridges and Woldridee of Pine l BlnI1. attorncNs for the Cotton Bnlt 1 practically all her estate to her sis- ] ter, Miss Bettic C. KG5,,ar. leaving
 hef only ehild Guy W. leliar. prac- l tlcaIly nothing. and the contest WIS l flied by this son
 ], That sweeping decision of the su-
 pteme court recently rendered is cal-
 cuEtt@d 10 give us more trouble Q,
 roads. Strange that wise men will
 let their heads grow wrong through l prejudice OF otherwise and render
 such foolish decisions. By this very
 act We shall likely lose all That has
 been done in a decade for inc road
 question in Arkansas
 Here, too, We see what the people nave to contend with when you come 1 'e consider good roads leeislatiou. l he railroad corporations oppose be. 1 lhg taxed to build county roads. Yes. indeed, the farmer must give hls land for railroad right of way" pay taxes to enable the government 10 donate by the million to the rail. l reads, because Of the fact thai the railroad as a public highway. is 3 great necessity But when the poor farmers say aour time has at last come, and the government must do, \ nate to help Us build roads upon
 which to haul the products of the l farm' is it not passing strange that 1 the railroad, the very first enterprise benefited by the farmers thrift is the first to sqnea on account of t.,x- | alton for building roads Tn the good roads movement we find practically no opposition in the open the Farmer, the merchant and the banker, the practical teacher. and he minister, the laborer and the mill man and manufacturer and all the lawyers except he ''railroad lawvarsY '"Nor ih'S movement. In fact. YOU call hardly lind a man who has keDt up With the mater for the last tan
 years regardless of his vocation. who Is not a good roads enthusiast. Still We find legislation as silent as 1 a graveyard, and We have been made 1 'o wonder, and ask the question. 1 "Why?"
 The above clipping in measure answers that question. But has not the time come for the people to ask in a languaee plain
 enough to be understood by lecisla- tnre regardless of some conflicting 1 noise made by the boodlers, that such constitutional law be enacted as that the public highways be built and mintained at public expense? Too, let the railroad lobbyist know he has no more right to effect leg is]ation than the humblest farmer in the land.
 Now is the time of all times to talk reads.
 J. s. HAWKINS,
 Secretary Jefferson County Good
 Roads association.