The Carlisle independent., 1910-06-16

UT GHlLlaJlVe and Referendum.
 Believing in tne people right 10 rule, we favor the adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment providing for the initiative and referendum in matters Of legislation affecting the general inter- ests of the peopIe.
 We recognize the states obligation to those who so freely offered their lives when called to service by the state, and we pledge the Confederate veterans that their services will never be forgotten and that their declining years shall be made more comfortable.
 We believe that the University of Ar kansas should remain forever where it is now located, and that all agitation for a removal thereof is unwise and injurious to the educational interests of the people of the state.
 We heartily commend the administration for it's able defense of the freight and passenger rates prescribed by the state, enjoined by the railroads in the federal courts, and it's resistance to the unreason- able and exorbitant rates established by the railroads thereafter
 We note with satisfaction that such ac- tion has already resulted in the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars an- ANS-A4s NO N4S pcOpiS i'll lIeISuI rates anO promises to disclose the injustice of such injunetions and the upholding of the rates made by the state
 Pledges Support for Schools.
 Believing our public school system forms the greatest safeguard to our liberties, recognizing the broadening scope of our public schools in effectually training the rising generation for practical duties of citizen shin development of this system through the faithful fulfillment of our party pledges to be commensurate with the increased population and wealth of our state, giv- ing it greater political strength and i'm portance, and knowing this institution to be influenced by ever-changing conditions incident to it's administration in the larg- est and fullest sense, we renew the par tvs pledges and protection to our educa- tional system from district school to uni- versity, including the normal and agri, cultural schools of the state, and we promise liberal support and maintenance free from political partisan strife and en- dorse the active interest of our citizens and practical benefits to the pupils in associations, boys corn clubs and the
 
 Realizing that consecrated intelligence is the foundation stone of Democracy. we heartily endorse the recent action of our governor in appointing an Educational Commission to study the school laws of the state with a view of recommending to the legislature revisions and improve ments. Ignorance is a greater burden to state than taxation and We call upon all good citizens In a I, I,aff cooperation to the commission in it's ef- forts to solve and simplify our educa- tional problem.
 We favor ample appropriations ade- quate supervision, equable advantages adapted to our needs and environment and within reach of all children of school age. to fulfill our pledges in this recog- nition of the vital economic fmportanc. of our public school system of perpetu- ating the honor and glory of our stats by furnishing citizenship trained tn mind, stalwart in body and noble in char acter.
 Disposes of Prohibition Question.
 Ours is a government of the people and the people have the right to control, and as the Democracy of the state has provided by the submission of the initi- ative and referendum amendment for the people to determine for themselves what laws they will or will not have, and, as the adoption of this amendment to the constitution will enable the people to car ry into effect their views on Statewide prohibition and local option, we recem- mend the adoption of the initiative and referendum amendment as furnishing an effective and fair method of registering and enforcing the public will and we fa- vor all legislation, state and national, that will protect the people against the sale of liquor in all localities when its sale is illegal.
 The Democratic party endorses the ac- ton of the last General Assembly in pro- viding for the establishment and main- tenanee of a tuberculosis sanatorium and calls upon the next General Assem- bly to properly maintain this great hu- manitarian institution permanently at it's present location.
 The Democratic party tanks the patri- otic bankers of Little Rock and Fort Smith who have advanced to the state in anticipation of it's revenues the neces- sary money to start the construction of this institution, which promises so much for the amelioration of the victims of the great white plague"
 To Maintain Agricultural Schools.
 Whereas, The state recently located four agricultural colleges. one at Russellville, one at Jonesboro, one at Monticello and one at Magnolia. the con sderation for the location of which being large dona- tion of land and money subscribed by the people of said towns the state upon her part through her represent atves binding herself by solemn contract to maintain said colleges at the place. above men, toned for the consideration so offered as aforesaid; therefore, be 1t
 Resolved, That the delegates to rthis convention pledge the party to oppose the repudiation of these contracts so entered into as aforesaid
 We favor the fostering of the agricul- tural and horticultural interests of the state and endorse the movement of the State Land Congress and Immigration Bureau. the state fair and ali other movements and efforts that tend to ad- vertise and develop the abundant re- sources of our great commonwealth
 Two Wounded hy Wil1 Bullets,