The Mena weekly star., 1910-09-08

turned out today for the Bryan speak ing. There were at least 5000 people in the park during the entire speech.
 MT. Bryan called Governor Dona- ehey. E. W. Hogan. president of the State Federation of Labor, and c. A. Cole, president of the Farmers Union, to stand. securing a pledge from them that they would work to remedy any deficit in the 10th Amendment should flaws be found in amendment itself after passage.
 Mir. Bryan spoke from the rear of train for ten minutes at Springdale.
 Special will stop at Rudy to pick up two cars of people going to Van Buren to attend the speech.
 Special today running on time. It has been practically decided to re- main over Saturday. making speeches from Searcy to Eureka Springs.
 In speech at Fort Smith, Mir. Bry- an, in substace, said:
 "Ihave carefully read the objections ade and the arguments in support
 those objections, and while do not like to enter myself in opposition to any friend on any subject, especially do object, or rather hesitate to enter into a controversy with friends as good as Arkansas friends, yet, after read the objections made to the arguments submitted in support of them, l felt that the objections were not well taken, that the arguments were not sufficient to deter the people from voting for the people, and have come down to Arkansas at my own expense to make an argument in favor of Amendment No. 10.
 II have read the objections made to this amendment as it stands. l received document signed by forty lawyers, and have learned since that twenty more had added their names. | 1 have been informed that the number is likely to increase until hundred lawyers have signed their names to the. objections presented.
 Now, 1 was trained for lawyer myself, studied law as young man. practiced law from 1883 to 1891, and then left the law--the active practice. when I went to Congress. My father was lawyer. think, therefore, that you will admit. that having had a lawyer for father, having been trained for the profession myself, and having practiced the profession until larger political interests separated me from | it, I think you will admit that do not look upon the lawyer or upon the profession from the standpoint of one unfriendly, and I do not hesitate to say to you, that l, if were in this state, would vote for this amendment in spite of forty lawyers, or sixty or 100 lawyers.
 Now, why? Because lawyer is just like anybody else. He has his opinion and his opinion is good, just in proportion as it depends upon reason and upon argument, and need not tell you that no one lawyer is ever right always. The supreme court decisions, I think, will prove that no one lawyer has always succeeded in getting the court on his side on every question. Not only that. but when ever any question comes up in court, you have no difficulty in finding in each community, a lawyer-at least one-whO will take each side of the case.
 .'The most important objection is to the languaee of one paragraph. and they say joker has been inserted. Let me read the paragraph to which they refer !" The legislative powers of this state shall be vested in a general as sembly, which shall consist of the sen ate and house of representatives. but the people of each municipality, each county and of the state, reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls independent of the legislative as- sembly, and also reserve the power at their own option, to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly.
 Now, that is the paragraph to which most exception is taken, and these forty lawyers construe that to mean that county or municipality may reject at the polls, part of the constitution or a statute, if they so desire.
 Mir. Rose, one of the most eminent of the lawyers of your state, has writ ten an article, an argument that was sent to me by one of his friends, and have given to it the care and the consideration that an argument pre- sented by so high an authority de serves, and nothing has done more than his argument to convince me that | it is perfectly safe for the people o Arkansas to adopt Amendment No 10. Applause
 : Let me read some extracts iron his argument. Speaking of this pro vision, as he construes it. He says
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