Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-29

pay off the bonds.
 Put in bank at interest your $22,30l
 annually, and the interest on tha
 coming back to the county plus youi
 four days free labor, which will soor
 1c released in favor of convict labor
 will keep all the roads in the county
 ;n repair and cancel all your bonds
 in exactly thirteen and one-thirt fund ai interest, five per cent annual
 lv, you can cancel them in clever years, and leave $19,652.S0 to the ere dit of the county No account is taker in this calculation of the increase 1T values, which will help to cancel tho bonds in a still shorter time"
 These two examples illustrate what can be done under a bond issue
 Noting the opposition to this amend ment, confirms my assertion made tc you, that nearly all those who oppose its passage are guided either by per scnal interest or political reasons.
 l have been resident of this city for twenty-five years; have been in- 1 terested to a greater or less extent in the politics of the state. My observa- l, ton leads me to the conclusion that i the old bond issue afforded the politi- than any other question. The passage of this amendment, to certain extent, would deprive them of that much buncomb. I say buncomb because the commercial and social and political conditions of today are not to be com pared to those of that day.
 The issue of bonds in that day, in itself, was not wrong But those who were in control made wrong use of tteir privileges to such an extent that they brought the whole state into disrepute. That the responsibility rests solely with the officials is veri- fled by the fact that other states have issued bonds, have expended their proceeds in business manner, and by so doing have far outstripped the state of Arkansas, which has more undeveloped wealth than any other state in the Union.
 Holding as We do, that the change to Democratic government has reme- died the wrongs perpetrated during Reconstruction days, even to the ex- incorporated in the Democratic state platform, means that, if you vote against it, you advertise to the outside world that the Democratic party is ID more honest, no more patriotic, TO moro to be depended upon than were those who perpetrated the outrages under the old constitution This I will not acknowledge, when I sea the won derful progress that has been made under Democratic administration. hampered by laws that should not have been allowed to exist longer than from one session of the legisla- ture to the next The fear of com hitting political suicide of the aver age man in politics has prevented him from expressing or voting his honest sentiments, guided always by those who present tle claim that such leg islGtion es this would increase the burdens >.t the laborer and the i;t ie home own~T. s'r'.'~.--
 Righ: here vii show yon the hy- poorisy of lie nan who makes ta : argument asa'rst the amendment When appeared before the Pulaski county levying board, in 1900. ap- realing to them to levy special thre, mill road tax, l was met With the opposition of the county judge and two of our wealthiest men, members Cf the board.
 forecasted that they would make the argument that it would increase the burdens of the laborer and the lit | tie home owner. admitto1 that il |