The Newark journal., 1909-04-30
BROTHER BROWNS HEN
Contributor Says She Has Set on Rot
 ten Eggs Until They Stink


 self before the public gaze again, in his usual and all important way, and in an article in reply to Johnnie, - says that he desires to enlighten an "unknown quantity etc." and also makes an attempt to answer somo of the questions that were propounded to him in a former issue of The Journal. When the questions were asked, they temporarily knocked all the wind out of the reservoir of his legislative equilibrium, but he has taken several weeks to patch it up and now comes out in defense of his shattered record and in making his explanation he goes deeper and deeper into the mire.
 Now let Us take view of his patch ing of that old wind bag and see if his explanation will hold reason and good sense. By way of illustrating his position, he speaks of setting hen. but let us take that same old hen and see if it will not better apply to the opposite of our brothers contention. 11Cb AS 5dPpooC biieit tii0 ol bii6 legislature are the hen, the good laws we need are the eggs, and the people of Arkansas are the fellow who is set ting the hen on the eggs. All right; three weeks is the time provided by nature for matching the eggs and sixty days is the time that the constitution of Arkansas has provided for the session of the legislature.
 What sort of a fool would it take to continue hen on eggs after she had set for the usual time and had matched no chickens? Have you fellows hat h. any good laws of general nature since you have been over there, if so, please just state what they are? If you can not hatch any good measures in the constitutional limit, there is bound to be strong suspicion in the minds of your constituents that you can not if you stay there two years. Then, too, you know that the longer a hen sets on rotten eggs, the more rot ten the eggs become, and the fellow who will continue hen on these sort of eggs is a fool for the want of sense. Brother Brown, I hope you can make the application in this illustration, as you seem to have had the wrong view all the time, but if you can not by reason of deficiency of your mental capacity, just step over and call on honest Will Thompson and he can show you the point.
 Brother Brown says that he did not know that motion was going to be made to extend the session and could therefore have no time to seek the ad- vice of his constituents on the subject. What an awful, awful admission. Do you know that every legislature for the past quarter of century has had the question of extending the session before it, and yet Brother Brown says he didn't know that such motion was going to be made in time to ask his constituents for their approval of his voting himself ssome more pay" But now Brother Brown comes along and gets in behind the whiskey men to justify his acts and says that it was trick of the whiskey men. The writer is as much opposed to whislSey as is Brother Brown, but is not going to violate that principle of justifying one wrong by reference to other wrongs done by other people.
 AL ,.aAnla n iY, fay of Brother Browns "State Capitol egg, School Text Book egg, Penitentiary Question egg and last but not least Prohibition Measure egg" but the same good people in large majority think that the present representatives have set on those eggs until they have become damnably rotten, and that the said legislators ought to quit wasting time and money and come home.
 Do YOU know that the State Capitol egg has become so rotten that we can smell it one hundred miles away from where the hen is setting? Didn't they pass measure to discharge Judge Jno. B. McCaleb, along with the other members of the capitol commission, citizen of our county, a man who has gone in and out before the people of Arkansas for the last quarter of century, and whose character and in- tegrity as private citizen and as a public servant is as spotless as purity itself? They have cast the ermine of suspicion about him when no conduct