Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-08

rega 'dng the cotton crop in th sec ion, one of suchj instances being, as the Graphic states, such a large crop ill Texas that they can pick from 100 to 300 pounds a day.
 q will state that this probably seems an eXaggeraion to the half baked youth who. wrc5e the above, if applied tc the black belt referr ng to population and not soil around Pne Bluff. But in the great Arlington Country his is very common, espec- ally With the big ton crop this year. From 450 to 600 pounds a day are being picked by many negroes in this rection; tn writer had a negro youth to leave h s work of doing chor3s around the place and hied him away to the cotton patches-nat- urally preierring the big pay he re- ceives from picking cotton to the or- d nary pay of working ill yard or garden, since he is D eking from 800 to TOO pounds a day.
 Ut evidently attracted the attention of th youth who wrote the above roast" that the Arlington citizens stayed at the hotel every night, but did not leaf around the hotel nor ill it during the day, which evidently was the reverse of what the Graphic was accustomed amongst it's chief and leading citizens for it says, Accord ing to those who are protesting against their work here, the men stay at the Hotel Jefferson each night, but do not appear there during the day
 "THis writer is probably as well ac quainted with Jefferson county and all ef the sections around Pne Bluff at the VT ter in the Graphic is, and the above sentence was the cause of amusement as it called up reminis- cences of the time that Colonel New man, Editor Murray and other choice spirits of Pine Bluff Commercial Club and editor al fraternity would insist upCn my joining them ill Pine Bluffs usual nocturnal festivities on some of my visits there in days of yore, what time l was up there gathering rich data as staff correspondent of the s.. Louis Globe Democrat during a ser'e es of years.
 q will inform the Graphic and the good people of P ne Bluff that it is a habit of leading citizens in Texas, far mers as well as newspaper men and ether professional and business men to be found at hotels or other sleeping places at Il ght and they attend to their business and walk about the streets or ride ill their automobiles or carriages .n the day time. Now these good citizens of the Great Arling' on l@country Gall well known, reliable, highly cs cemol and successful far mersl were nat not aware that such conduct as staying in the hotels at i Il ght and roaming sroand in the day t.mc would attract such notorious at i tentiGn in the capital of Jefferson 1 county, Al kansas as to lay them un- der suspicion in the m nds of thc average citizens there and cause such sensation as to lead he Grap.ic tC apply oDprobr.cus CD thets to them and even utter the following threat:
 "'It $ rumored that some dras'il
 acticn is to be taken by number o
 cotton growers against the laboi agents should they continue their op
 crations here
 Now, the real cts, as 1 have as
 certa,ned them by talk ng with iht
 farmers who went up to Arkansas t'
 bring back unemployed negroes tt
 nick their cotton are about as follows
 Messrs. Geo. Griffin, T. M. Cooper, J
 P Bardin and M. R. Martin wen, tf
 me Bluff 10 get wllat idle laborcr
 they could, tc pick cotton Tor then
 and the neighbors they were authoriz
 cd 10 represent. They refused to em sd ploy the town bully and the politiea boss among Pine Bluffs oyerwhelm .ng negro which probabl
 was their first oifense in that towl For be it known that the first impres