The Monticellonian., 1907-01-03

| a i terest ot good roads preliminary to favorable action on the part of the General Assembly. Memorials arc te be presented from all parts of the State asking that laws be enacted on abiins the counties to build and i'm. prove it's highways
 Alf Hawkins has addressed the fol ] lowing open letter to eOurty judges i and mayors. secretaries Of Boards of i rade. Business Mons LcdHues. Far meEs' Unions. labor unions and Ar hansaW Travellers of the State of Ar ittin ts from ArkanEas Good Roads As s0cia ti3n
 Honored slrs-Oa behalf of the Arkansas Good Roads Association, l take pleasure in addressing. through you. as representative factors of OUT great commonwealth, every voter of the State.
 May We not, as we near the close of perhaps the most prosperous year in the history of the State, extend to you word of cheer. happy Christ mas, and a hope that your next years may be better personally and for the State.
 The fifth annual convention of the Arkansas Good Roads Association is now near at hand. and We take this means of asking your immediate as sistanee. Ne meet in Little Rock the last three days of January. 1907 29th. Both. and 31st. Let us make it the largest convention ever assembled in the State. Our purpose is to have from 3,000 to 5000 delegates and wis itors. Will you not aid Us in forming this tremendous delegation
 lot tlas quality This must be q representa- live body in every way. and will be. All county judges. road commission. CTS, oVerseers, mayors. secretaries and presidents of all the aforementioned organizations are eX-offieio delegates 10 this convention No credentials needed Let county judges select ten delegates. mayors five, with one ad dittonal for every thousand of popnla ton. Let each local farmers union and labor union send delegate. Let boards of trade send one. and aid us h seeing that their respective cities and counties are represented Let the Arkansaw Travellers send one dele gate for each congressional district and ten for State at large
 Let each member of the Executive Committee select ten delegates. Let civic improvement associations and other organizations looking to the de yelopment of the State send dele gates, one each
 Having secured the endorsement of the Farmers Union, s3.000 mem bers in the State and the various or ders representing labor and business development We propose to present the claims of more than 100000 voters to the incoming legislature.
 The enclosed petition memorial to legislature. Find q good man who Will work two hours and fill one just 50 names Write name Of county and fold, then mail as post cara. We want 90, 900 signatures to this petition Ninety-nine men in every hundred en- dorse this memorial. Notice the one signed up in other part of this paper.
 Gentlemen, judges. mayors, secre- taries, etc, write ne at once. Write me freely, Let us make one long, strong pull together and put Arkansas to the front. Nothing will do it as Will a good system of good roads Yours for a big convention. a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year,
 "J. S. HAWKINS. Secretary
 Legislative Memorial.
 The memorial to be presented to the legislature is as follows.
 We the joint committee taken from the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union and the Arkansas Good Roads Association, recommend an agreement upon the following ap- peal to the Legislature of 1907, con tending for three things:
 'First-A law requiring convict Ia. bor to be put on the public roads. thus placing same out of competition with free labor as well as aiding in road construction.
 "Second-A law securing State aid tn such a way as to equally distribute the burden of taxation necessary for the construction of public highways, putting this burden upon the railroads and other corporations as well as up on real estate and other property. This We would have done in such q way as to construct and maintain good public highways at public expense to the entire release of free labor as now SO unjustly imposed upon the laborers. "Third-For the immediate relief especially to river and bottom coun- ties, we ask such amendment to the constitution of the State as will per init any such counties as may so de sire. indicated by majority Of votes cast in a separate special election In | such county or counties. to issue cer- tiflcates of credit, as is now done by | improvement districts in cities for the construction and maintenance of good roads. And furthermore to allow any and all counties of the State to ac- cept any appropriations made by county, state or nation. for road pur' poses as suggested by bills now pend Ing in Congress, or such others as s.-..ss.-..s'--.--s'sse-s44-ts4 - s4e .ae .n-roduced
 Endorsed by tarIneis o4..S-, E kansas State Federation of Labor, Boards of Trade and Business Men's Leagues. and by hundreds of voters personally.
 Notes.
 "Gentlemen, you will please pardon us for insisting that you act at once the very day you get this letter. in paper, and see. to it that your county, your town, your organization is rep -Ss.sI4.a strongly.
 The program 1ol ---------..sss..., is not quite ready for publication. The first day will be Merchants and | Planters Day; second. Legislation Day. third, Road Builders Day W, H. Moore, the national president, will