The Forrest City times., 1910-06-17


 For Initiative and Referendum.
 Believing III the peopies r6nt to rule we favor the adoption of the proposed | constitutional amendment providing for l 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 1 kansas should remain forever where it is now located. and that all agitation for a removal thereof Is unwise and injurious to the educatiena. interests o4 tine people of the state.
 | We heartily commend the administration for its able defense of the freight and passenger rates prescribed by the state. enjoned by the railroads in the federal courts, and its resistance to the unreason- able and exorbitant rates established by the railroads thereafter.
 We note with satisfaction that such ae- tion has already resulted in the saving of hundreds Of thousands of dollars an- l promises to disclose the injustice of such injunctions 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 citizenship, appreciating the growth and 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 im- portanee. 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 un- versity including the normal and agrt, 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 our schools through school improvement associations. boys corn clubs and the Department of Secondary Education.
 
 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 greater burden to q state than taxation and we call upon all good citizens to extend a sympathetic cooperation to the commission in it's ef- forts to solve and simplify our educa- tional problem.
 We favor ample appropriations ade- I0uate 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- milton of the vital economic importanc. of our public school system of perpetp- ating the honor and glory of our stats by furnishing a citizenship trained .a 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 idtl- ative and referendum amendment for the people to determine for themselves what tIaws 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. recom- mend the adoption of the initiative and referendum amendment furnishing an effective and fair method of registering and enforcing the public will. and we ia 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- viGing for the establishment and main- tenauce of tuberculosis sanatortum. and calls upon the next General Assem- bly, to properly maintain this great hu- manitaran institution permanently at It's present location.
 The Democratic party Tor nks the patri- otic banl ers of Little Rock and Fort Smith who have advanced to the state in anticipation of ite revenues the neces- sary money to start the construction of this institution. which premiyes 60 much for the anclioration cf the victims of the . great rct3te r,lao,lo''
 To Maintain AgricuIt,ra- ccNools. Whereas. The state recently located four agricultural colleges. one at Passollvile.
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 Two Wounded hy Vii. 6atets.
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