The Mena weekly star., 1908-01-09
William J. Bryan Says That the Quickest and Best Way

l officials and create a new peni- tentiary board.
 This speaker also referred to the new state capitol question by making defense of his action in stopping the work by his opinion rendered as attorney general, which held up the appropriation of more money. He said that he believed that the building should be speedily completed, but that he was following the law in his action and said that one of the contractors admitted having paid S17,500 to influence the legisla- ture,
 Denounces Newspapers. Mir. Kirby closed his speech by bitterly denounciug the news papers in general and his home paper in particular, expressing the belief that it had been pur. chased by Donaghey. He charged them all, or nearly all, as being corrupt; denied them the claim to any good part in the forming or maintaining the states govern ment.
 At the close of his speech MT. Kirby left the hall at once and caught the } o'clock train for his home, not remaining over with the other candidates to hear Bryan at night.
 Fire Alarm Disturbed Hinemon. MT. Hinemou was the last to address the audience. Just be. fore he began a fire alarm was turned in to the department, causing small stampede iu the audience. Many returned as soon as they found there was no danger from fire, and MT. Hine- mon began his address. He is a careful, conservative speaker, plain and earnest in what he says. He paid his respects to Attorney General Kirby by re- ferring to Kirby's statement about Caldwell's $17,500 poodle confession, and expressed the be- lief that 1t would have been better If the attorney general had stayed in Little Rock and prose- cuted the boodlers instead of, after being in office six mouths, go out as he did last July and begin running for another office. Would Exempt Poor From Taxes. MT. Hinemon advocated the idea of tax exemption for the poor man, believing 1t right that tEe wealth of the state should pay the taxes, although owing to the present depleted condition of the state treasury 1t would not be advisable to put such a system in operation at once. He referred to the fact, however, that many of the Southern states made the man with but a few hundred dollars, and in one state 1t was as high as $500 (which he thought was too high) free from taxation.
 He believes also that the actual wealth of the state should be on the tax books, citing cases where bank with $500, 900 capital stock fully paid up was only assessed at $55, 900, and with property cost $40, 900 listed at $S, ,00O.
 To induce immigration to the state, as we'll as for the rights of the man of small means he wished to see the wealth of the state on the tax books and the tax rate decreased. He preferred to see the state wealth shown by the books at Sl, 00,000, 1000 with a tax rate of l per cent, instead of $375, ,000, 900 and a tax rate of 3 per cent.
 Pleads for School System. Hand in hand with these ideas Mir. Hinemon made a strong plea for our school system and it's inn provement; the establishment of county high schools in every county free to all; the establish ment of agricultural schools aud experimental stations to teach the people the way to develop the states great resources.
 As au example m this line MT. Hinemon told of land in the east ern part of the state which sold recently for Sl per acre which now sells for from $50 to S75 per acre because the Federal government sent agents down there to show the people that they could raise and how to raise rice thereon.
 MT. Hinemon urged the people to cut loose from boss rule select their own candidates and not to sit back and let some one else tell them how to vote.
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