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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23

The recent issue of the Arkansas Home and Highway Journel, publish ed at Little Rock, reviewed the good roads work accomplished by Repre- sentative $. J. Hunt of this city ill the recent legislature. It also pays him compliment in reviewing his success from early life to the present day. The journal says:
 The Hon, Sidney J. Hunt, who led the fight in the house and before the committee of the senate on behalf of the proposed constitutional amend ment, house resolution No. 4, amend ment No. 10, as given on the first page of the cover of this magazine, has introduced himself to the political world as statesman worthy the praise and esteem of his friends and all who seek the prosperity of the State of Arkansas.
 "Mr. Hunt, like most of our success full statesmen, came from the farm. While walking between the blow han dies in Columbia county, Arkanas, IS a boy, MT. Hunt dreamed of larger field than the one in which he pulled tthe blow line across 8 mules back. and as he hauled the products of his fathers farm over the clay hills of that county he incidentally began the study of the road question: As he could be spared from the crops, Sid was ill school. At the age of 9 we find him graduating from Hendrix college, talk ing the A. B. degree. He then taught one session in his home town, Waldo. The next year, 1896, he entered the law department of Vanderbilt University, from which he graduated wiz E. i-.' degree ill the class of 1898, A few days later he was examined by the Supreme Court of Arkansas and admitted to the bar. In October of that year aea lo- cated in the prosperous city ot Pine Bluff, where has since remained
 s'It so happened that Mir. Hunts first partner in law, Judge Martin, was county judge, so again he is forced to study the road question. And now he is out of the sand and clay in the rich gumbo soil of Jefferson.
 "The Democratic party of Jefferson county sent Mir. Hunt as one of their repre- sentatives in the legislature ot 1905 and returned him for 1907. No man in the General Assembly has more friends and stronger influence among his fellows than has MT. Hunt from Jefferson.
 While Mir. Hunt was chairman Of the Subcommittee" the real business committee of the state house investi- gatioa, one of the proudest duties of his'life was to get through what he
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
' EXTEND RAIL !. WAY NOTES
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New York, June 22.-An eXtensiou of SIX months has been granted to the syndicate which underwrote the $5,- 100000 issue of the Kansas City South ern railway notes, the agreement re- garding which was to have expired to- day. The notes were underwritten at 95 and interest, less an underwriting commission of 2 1=2 per cent. It is reported that over half of the issue has been sold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
SIDNEY HUNT AS A
 GOOD ROADS BUILDER

What Pine Bluffs Represen ative in the Lower House of the Legislature Accomplished in That Direction al Recent Meeting of the Arkansas General Assem- bly-How He Worked From Plow Boy to the Leg islative Halls-His Sue cessful Career
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23

called his Road Bill" resolution No. | f. At 3:10 p. m., May 13, just one day before the closing, MT. Hunt secured the final vote in the house. having been amended in the senate, and his bill passed, v to 10. having passed the senate 26 to 3
 Read this proposed amendment on the front page of the cover, and then Mir. Hunts figures, as taken from his speech in the house, using his owl. county as base of argument.
 "We have in round numbers 300 miles of public roads in my county. Let us take 100 miles of the most inn portant roads leading to market and macadamize that. then improve the turnpikes in a cheaper manner till We can afford to macadamize more. Let this 100 miles cost us an average Of $3,000 per mile. We issue $30000C worth of , per cent bonds. now being offered us, and build at once. The in terest on these bonds is $15,000 year. Our taxable property, personal and real, is assessed at $12,5o0,oo0. Egg ures tell the truth. Watch my cal cu,ation. Without increasing our taxes one particle we are going to pay off these bonds. How? Just this way: Our three-qill road tax. which We now lose in the mud and wash .lj2 the river, is $37.5oo per year Take
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
BRYAN IN TEXAS.

Fort Worth, Texas, June 22.-Wil- liam Jennings Bryan is expected here tomorrow and in the evening will open the Fort Worth Chautauqua with an address on "The Prince of Peace The Nebraskan is highly popular in this section of. Texas and many visi- tors from other cities and towns will come here to hear him.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
FEAR CHINESE
 UPRISING

Annoy, China, June 22.-A feeling of apprehension pervades the foreign quarter here today, due to the rumor that d general uprising of the Chi nese against the white devils will take place on Monday that being the date reported to have been set for
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
FOR SALE.

500 bushels good sound whippe- will peas, we'll sacked, f. O. b. cars at Little Rock or Carlisle, Ark. W. H. Nichols.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23

the massacre. The leader of the in- sursents has issued all address appeal ing to the people to take up arms against the foreign invaders.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23
RING

351 old phone or 313 new phone for telephone orders
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-06-23

Account with tbis bank is helpful not only to men in business, but to every man and woman alike who has any money transactions,
 It encourages economy. - 1t establishes your credit. 1t makes sending money away or paying bills easy.
 It safeguards your cash. ,. It Is business to have one. Why not start a Check Account here today?
 THE BANK OF PINE BLUFF,
 Capital and Profits. $lS3, 100000. !
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16

NOUR men were sent to the peniten-
II tiary the other day by Judge Carroll
Il Cook to serve term of fifty years,
ostensibly for stealing $15 from a man
whom they held up in the street
The four were bad men; each of them
had served previous terms for felonies;
and society is we'll rid of them. True,
they may not have had fair start in life.
They may have been born and brought up
in an environment of crime and have
drifted into criminal ways, just as more
fortunate men sometimes drift Into the
ways of honesty, without any conscious
selection on their part. There are hap
less men and women who find themselves
professional criminals and outcasts when
they arrive at the age of reason; just as
there are men and women who, when
they come to a sense of their moral re-
sponsibility, find themselves confirmed
professors of religion, disciplined in the
routine of rectitude.
However, society has not yet attained
such a state of civilization that 1t is
practicable to take the more delicate con-
siderations of responsibility into account.
The four men are bad; that is the ulti-
mate fact. Therefore, most people will
approve the severe sentence. The men
are hopelessly lost. They cannot be re-
formed, and prison is the best place for
them.
There was not much ado about the trial
of these four men. Judge Cook had no
learned doubts of the validity of the in
dictment or information on which they
were tried. Members of the grand jury
were not subjected to lengthy examina-
tions in the hope of establishing prejudice
by proving that some of them had third
cousins twice removed who had expressed
an opinion that the accused were guilty.
The upper courts were not required to
listen to protracted arguments on refined
technicalities in support of motions for
special writs. The law took its course,
and it was a straight, short course.
Yet, bad as these men are, the plain
truth is that they were sent to prison for
fifty years not because they were bad,
but because they had no money. Poverty,
not robbery, is the crime for which they
really were punished. Had they stolen
fifteen million instead of fifteen dollars
they would not have been so easily con-
victed; probably they would not have
been convicted at all, -
Had the four robbers stolen millions.
instead of paltry fifteen dollars. they
would have had the services of very
eminent and highly respectable counsel;
honorable, high-minded gentlemen who,
for big, fat fees, would have leased their
character, their reputation for probity,
their brains to the guilty men. The
character, reputation and brains, so
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
MAKE 1T MERRY

TT you have not already made your
selections of Christmas gifts, delay
Il no longer. You may work your
imagination up to the most fertile
state, but it will produce no good argu-
ment in support of late holiday shop
ping. Every argument is in favor Of
early buying; all are against unneces-
sary delays.
Under the auspices of Charities and
Commons, journal of philanthropy
there has been put into circulation a
letter to the whole American public on
this subject of Christmas shopping.
Among other things it says:
observation might show many of
us that Christmas is a time OF hard
ship for those who have to do with
supplying the needs of Christmas shop
pers. Authentic records from the lives
of clerks. delivery boys and drivers Of
wagons show that, while we are keep
ing the Christmas festival, while we are
feeding the lame and halt, the blind and
friendless, we are lightly reducing to
illness and exhaustion the young and
strong and faithful who serve us, seen
and unseen.
EVERY year the celebration of Christ
mas grows more elaborate. More
presents are bought; the crowds are
greater; the decorations are more
splendid. The problems OF the mer-
chants are correspondingly more COM
plex; the supply has to be increased;
the pressure at every point intensihes.
On the one hand, public disapproves
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
ROOSEvELT'S FUTURE

| "THAT will President Roosevelt do
! wv after his retirement from the
chief magistracy Of the nation?
He has characterized as absurd the
rumor of few weeks ago that he
would become editor of the New York
Tribune, although in the field of jour-
nalism he probably would be able to
accomplish more in the way of educat-
ing the American public in the policies
which have made his administration
the most notable, from most stand
points, in history. He will not become
president of Harvard university; such
an existence would not be in harmony
with his ideals or aspirations. 1t is
hardly to be expected that he will sue
ceed either of the present representa-
tives of the state of New York in the
United States senate. That body Is
altogether too academic. too undemo-
cratic; he would be as restless under
its rules as If sitting in board of
supervisors while it deliberated over
the proposition to mend a road.
That Mr.. Roosevelt will remain in
well-earned rest after the close Of his
term, but he cannot long remain idle.
A man possessed Of his tremendous
mental and physical energy and in
spired by those lofty ideals which are
recognized throughout the land should
not be permitted to spend the re-
mainder of his life in retirement, nor
in private business. 1t has been pro-
phesied in some quarters that in the
event of the election Of Republican
president on Roosevelt-policy plat
form the logical place for Roosevelt
would be in his successors cabinet.
Nothing would be lost in personal dig
nifty if he should enter the cabinet, pro-
vided he gould work in harmony with
his chief. Much would be lost to the
public service If he were not invited to
join the official family of his successor.
It is far cry to the making of the
next cabinet and the future of Roose-
velt, but the subject is an interesting
nua
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
Fifty Years fin Prison
for UmSciemtific Theft

leased, would have gone into Judge Cook $
court blazing with indignation against the
grand jury which had indicted and the
district attorney who intended to prose-
cute the robbers Writs innumerable,
such as tied the hands of the police some
years ago when they endeavored to close
the cribs in Dupont street, would have
been applied for and-who can tell?-some
Judge, less stern toward criminals than
Carroll Cook, in one court or another,
high or low, might have granted them.
Immediately upon being indicted the
four robbers-if they had stolen millions
would have organized a large force Of
private detectives to visit witnesses and
spy upon the prosecution. A press bureau
would have been established and the pur-
chasable nine-tenths of the weekly press
retained. The robbers would have cried
that they, and not their VICTIM had been
held up They would have had their
press agents assert that In committing
the robbery the accused had been moved
by the highest motives Of philanthropy.
And a portion of the public would have
believed the excuse. Smart society, hold
ing that men with plenty of money can
do no wrong, would have denounced the
grand jury and the district attorneys
force as a pack of demagogues. And If
one of the robbers were to be acquitted
through the district attorneys inability
to make material witness repeat at the
trial the testimony which he had given
to the grand jury, certain portion of
the public would rejoice.
The four robbers proceeded by a wrong
method. They aimed too low They
ought to have acted behind the corporate
mask. Instead of taking fifteen dollars
out of a mans pocket they ought to have
organized q crooked bank and stolen all
his savings. Instead of holding up citi-
zen and stealing his pocket money in the
street they ought to have robbed him by
bribing his representatives in public office
to give them intellectually valuable fran
chises. They ought to have gone into the
watered stock line. 1t is perfectly lawful
to steal money in large sums, but 1t is a
felony to steal small change.
Poor fools! If only some kind person
had taken those four robbers In hand a
few years ago and taught them how to
steal they might be riding in their own
automobiles instead of the Black Maria;
for 1t is not stealing but stealing in al
bungling, crude, old-fashioned way that
puts men into striped suits. Stealing isl
lawful enough If you steal right. Hire a
lawyer before you go out to take other
peoples money and he'll pull down theI
books and show you how to get the money
by respectable, legal methods; and plenty
of 1t. The error of the four robbers was
that they engaged learned counsel too
Francisco Bulletin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16

represents the will Of the people is 6
mere matter of conjecture.
The house of representatives is nearer
to the people than the president or the
senate for the reason that it is changed
every two years, while the presidents
term is for four. and those of the sena-
tors for six. There is, therefore, a
chance to change the complexion of the
house more readily than the senate. The
fact that senators are elected by the in
tervention of the legislature also tends
to put them farther from the people
though the plan of nominating them In
advance changes this In some states. But
the knowledge of the people as to the
acts of a representative Is pretty gen.
orally imperfect, and he often misrep-
Ireesnts his constituents for several terms
before he is turned out and replaced by
some one else.
The greatest impediment, however, to
a proper reflection of the will of the peo-
Pile by the house lies in the rules which
have been adopted for its government.
Under the present system legislation is
wholly controlled, when it is desired,
by the committee on rules, which consists
of the speaker and four others. or those
appointed, two are Democrats and two
Republicans. In Republican house the
speaker and the two Republican members
control the committee. They make up
their minds before the Democratic mem
bers are consulted. To control legisla-
ton, therefore, the speaker has only to
name two Republicans who reflect his
views, or who will be subservient to his
will. The speaker said, indeed, that the
will of the majority had always been law
to the speaker The fact is that, while
a majority can reject rule brought in
by the committee, the exigencies of party
are such that 1t is not done.
Rebellion against the speakers will
causes so many disagreeable consequences
that 1t is seldom attempted. and when
tried generally fails. The result is that
the house for a number of years past
has represented the will of the speaker
rather than the will of the people.
The house pays the penalty for this
faulty organization. Its restriction of
debate, its subservience to the committee
on rules, render its acts of very doubt
full wisdom, and when they get into the
senate they are either rejected or so
as to lose their identity in many
cases. The house is therefore, dominated
by the senate, which, though farther
from the people, exercises a dispropor-
tionate influence. That influence is
sometimes wholesome; it is often perni-
cious, but the difference in organization
and in modes of action makes it the
more powerful body, so that even when
the house represents the will Of the peo-
pie 1t is often unable to effectuate it.
Louisville COurier-JOurnal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
A STATES WITNESS
TNrERsTATn coMMERcr CO.

TT INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM
MISSIONER LANE is in San
= Francisco once more, and several
pairs of shoes there and in Sacramento
are beginning to pinch. While the
body of which Mr.. Lane is a member
has no authority to proceed in the
local matters affecting the Southern
Pacific rebaters, there is nothing to
prevent him from lending his co-opera-
ton to the state authorities or to any
individuals or associations OF indivi-
duals having in mind any project LOOK
ing to the prosecution of the self-con-
fessed criminals identified with the
management Of this great railroad.
1t is hardly to be appresended that
Mr.. Lane will hesitate, for any reason
whatever to extend to the shippers of
San Francisco. the members of the
state railroad commission, Attorney
General Webb or Governor Gillett such
aid as any or all of these may desire
Whether he comes to California in an
matters not. The records of the GRIM
inal operations of the Southern Pacific
confessed to before Mr.. Lane during
the course of recent inquiry are pub
lie property Certain officials or agents
of that corporation have asserted that
the company did knowingly violate the
law by giving rebates to large num-
Der of its patrons. The record of this
testimony in itself is sufficient as a
foundation upon which Governor Gil<
lett, If he dared, Attorney General
Webb, if he dared, or the members of
the railroad commission, If they dared,
might institute proceedings in the name
of the people for the punishment of the
or criminals.
Nevertheless the presence of Commits
sioner Lane in San Francisco at this
particular time, while probably abso-
lutely devoid of any moral influence
upon these contumacious conspirators
against the welfare of the whole people
of California, will be of very great
cheer to the shippers organization
which has pledged itself to place before
the courts of the state the evidence
necessary legally to establish the guilt
of the railroad officials who authorized
the giving of rebates to favored ship
pers; or, expressed in different words,
of stealing from the pockets of one
class that they might dole out few
dollars here and there to those patrons
on whom they desired to bestow a smile
of indulgence. 1t will encourage those
who have been entertaining the slightest
doubts about what is going to happen
to the Southern Pacific railroad. For
in his visit at this time the dullest mind |
must see the hand of the federal gov
raised to knock at the door Of |
the states witness room.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
That Congressional Myth,
the WIZ OF the People

TN HIS address just before taking the
oath as speaker. Mr.. Cannon said
4 that the fundamental principles of free
government are unchanging, resting or
the will of the people and put in action
by the representatives of that will. ''This
house." he continued, 'ls the only insti-
tuition under our constitution where the
will of the people may be expressed with
a fairness approximating scientific ac-
curacy. Other departments of the gov
ernment have lofty and important func-
tions, but to this house along belongs
the peculiar, the delicate and the all
surprising function of interpreting and
putting into definite form the will Of the
people"
The correctness of this characterize
tion is subject to a good deal of COM
ment. The will of the people is a con-
venient phrase for a politician, but it
is an Elusive quantity. With reference
to the greatest number of questions
which come before the house, the will
of the people has never been expressed,
and can only be guessed at. In choosing
representatives the people have some
chance to express their wishes. but such
expression as there is must be limited
to a few questions. 1t often happens
that the choice depends upon a single
question, which determines whether one
or another man shall be elected to repre-
sent a particular district. AS to all the
immense residuum of legislation the con-
gresham has no instructions. 1t may
happen that his people will express them
selves during his term by petitions, by
mass meetings and the like, in favor or
against certain measures upon which he
Is called to pass. These cases are rather
and when they occur it is
often impossible to tell what is desired
by a majority of the people. But even
when the will of the majority is tolera-
oly clear, it often happens that the rep
,esentative prefers to follow his own
Judgment or inclination.
Members of the house are elected
thirteen months before they take their
seats at a regular session. In this time
conditions often change, in some cases
The situation of the country
S now altogether different from what 1t
vas in November of last year. The
luestions which are now at the front
we're then but feebly discussed and the
wishes of the people were not ascer-
aimed with reference to them. Even If
hey had been expressed, a fundamental
change in the surroundings may well
lave wrought corresponding change ir
he desires of the people If the election
lad been held yesterday, instead of thir-
,een months earlier, many of those who
lave now seats in the house would be
It home and their places filled by others.
How far the house, as now made up,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16

Mrs. William Gerry Slade, president
of the National Society Of the Daugh-
ters of 1872, has shot the chutes. 1.-THE
very hardest working woman" she
asserts. ''is the society woman, who is a
downright slave to her social obliga-
tions. She works harder for her pleas
ures than any woman in factory or
store works for support" Not being a
society woman we cannot undertake to
argue the point. But we do not believe
that the average woman will shame
lessly admit the truth Of the self-indict-
ment Of one of society's leaders.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16
Attorney General Webb
Still SSin the Dark''

ON the 2Sth day of October, Attorney
General U. S. Webb. having then had
" nearly month to consider the con-
fessions the Southern Pacific railraod
made before Commissioner Lane, declared:
'I will be able in few days to announce
the policy that 1 shall pursue. At the
present time / am very much In the dark
as everybody else is as to what avenues
of relief are afforded by our statutes. We
never had occasion to look up these par
ticular laws before, but 1 now propose to
find out just where we stand"
The Southern Pacific railroad confessed
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-16

oh. my! Oh, my! The years go by
Like sheep the dogs are harryin';
But late 1 had lispin lad.
And now he talks OF marryin!
Lord bless mel but he has the strut
OF ons that's grand an knows 1t;
No lass so prim that looks at him
But likes his cut an shows 1t.
An, fax, 'twould do your heart good, too
TO hear him at the blarney;
There's scarce a lass that sees him pass
But wears smile for Barney
Our Barney
wishfcl smile for Barney.
Tho Cupid lays cute snares these days
When Barney goes philanderin',
An all his traps hold geese, perhaps,
None takes this bold young gander in.
Ali None as yet, but there's net
That will, one day or other,
An her I'd name to bait the same
Is one like me, his mother.
Aye! Sure as fate, he'll take for mate
Sweet roguiEh Nora Kearney,
Who meets his wiles with scornful smiles,
AS once 1 did with Barney
My Barney
The father of our Barney.
From Catholic Standard and Times.