The Monticellonian., 1906-07-19

in its iron navy, nor it's armies, but in building up a spirit of individual citizenship. such as feels it's respons- Utilities and it's duties and with the courage to meet and discharge them individually.
 Freedom of Individual Action.
 Much was to be heard in these days of the community of interest. the brotherhood of man. solidarity. etc, but the best of all is that it comes from the free and voluntary action of the individual man, acting as such. The speaker severely arraigned com binations of both capital and labor insofar as they oppressed or inter- fered with the rights and liberties of the individual. IL was a crime to oppress, and it was not right to hound or denounce as scab, etc, any individual who desired to earn an honest living as an individual on his own responsibility.
 Continuing, the speaker said he gloried in the last words of Nathan AAAANF "hpy "h'Ai lboul Np bC tAt1ultQ by the British, said: "I regret that l have but one life to give to my country How different it would have sounded had he said. T am glad that l have only one life that my country can take from me. D very few men care to hang more than once. Arnold Winkelried died, but in dying freed Switzerland from the Austrian yoke and wrote his name high up among the lists of the mar tyrs of liberty's cause.
 Declares That Danger Threatens.
 The speaker was not pessimistic, but believed in the future of the country, and that there would be a resurrection of the glory of the past Dangers threatened, however. Men were teaching themselves to de- pend too much on the government and not enough on their own indi- viduality and character. The great est document ever penned by mortal man was the Declaration of American independence, and it asserted the right of every individual to life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness, and Patrick Henry had made himself immortal by asking for liberty or death"-not the liberty of govern ment, but of the individual The future would doubtless bring with it many changes. There would be storms in the future as there had been in the past. But the govern ment would live. Nothing can ever shackle the Golden Rule or strike down the Declaration of Indepen- dence The country needs more Nathan Hales, more Patrick Henrys, more of the spirit of individual patri- otism and selfsacrifce such as in spired the fathers of the republic, and it was only through and by such that ours could be made and pre- served in deed and in truth the land of the free and the home of the brave"
 The address was applauded en- Enthusiastically at intervals during it's delivery. The vast audience seemed to hang almost breathless on every word of the orator, lest so much as a syllable might be lost At it's close the speaker was given an ovation such as has rarely been extended to any orator within either Arkansas or Texas
 Two Associations Elect Officers.
 The two bar associations held sep arate meetings and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows
 Arkansas-J. W. House of Little Rock, president; w. H. Arnold of fexarkana, reelected viee-president; Roscoe Lynn of Little Rock secretary, and P. c. Dooley of Little Rock treasurer.
 Texas-A. l.. Beatty of Sherman. president; A. E. Wilkinson of Austin. president; |. c. C. Lamar of Dallas, secretary, and w. D. Williams of Fort Worth, treasurer.
 The visiting lawyers were guests of the local bar associations at ban quet.
 Some Freak VeuetabIes