The log cabin Democrat., 1907-09-05
was born of their fertile brain ot running a cotton school.

was born of their fertile brain ot running a cotton school.
 We leave here to return to a confding constituency who trusted us to represent them in the first exclusive Farmers Union cotton school that has ever been taught in the world. I feel sure that Prof. Clapp will bear me out in this assertion that there never was a school of So students who mani fested a more earnest desire to grasp the lesson taught than you. We part, perhaps many of us, nev- CT to meet again; when we return to our home and loved ones, and we take hold where we left off when we came here, and begin to pull the bell cord over old Beck and Lige and our minds start out upon a journey of recreation, 1t will come back upon the heety wings of thought and finger around the play grounds of the magnifi- cent school house of Conway. There has grown up among us a kind feeling of fellowship and brotherly love that is only known by students in school and comrades in a common cause.
 I cannot dismiss you until l ex- tend congratulation to you for have the good fortune of going to school in this classic little city, Conway, and having the distinc- tion of being the guest oi people whose citizenship cant be excelled anywhere from Maine to Calilor- mia, or from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a citizenship whose high ideal of Christian education cannot be overestlmated.
 Old friends and fellow citizens of Conway, the assigned me by the committee on program, l assure you, is pleasant one-that of act ing as spokesman for eighty hon. est sons of toll, to extend their hearty appreciation of your kind hospitality during our stay among you. When we shall have passed out from your homes and your town we desire you to known that our hearts are brim full of grati- tude for the royal treatment we have received at your hands We believe that you are in hearty sympathy with our great educa- tional move that the farmers have inaugurated for the protection and elevation of those we love. l say this is pleasant task because l know that I am addressing the mo- blest and broadest minded people under the sun. Their equal can only be found in Ozark and Frank lin county, from my standpoint. When my mind runs back twenty years ago and grasps the picture of Conway, a mere way-statlon, on the Little Rock & Fit. Smith rail road, with her plank sidewalks and muddy streets, with her seven saloons and six stores, with large per cent of her voting population too busy looking after the welfare and schools-I say, my friends, of the saloons to attend to the minor duties of citizens s h T. p; such as building h urc h S that when my mind grasps that picture and places it side by side with a picture of Conway as it is today, with her great male and fe- male colleges, with her public school of five hundred pupils, her fifty miles of graded streets and eighteen miles of concrete and stone sidewalks, her magnificent churches, her electric light plant, and so many other up-to-date com mercial enterprises too numerous to mention, now when l behold such a wonderful change III old Conway wrought in brief period I wonder if I am not the Rip Van Wrinkle of the twentieth century.
 My friends, there has been great moving cause for those rapid