Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-17

peH IS Aue cause Ul all enOTluOuS plIe of wreck and ruin in business. It has filled the bankrupt courts with failures in the past and it will add it's great share in the future. The build ing of the bridge is one of the larg- ess projects that has ever been con- templated ill this county, it has pro- duced much hard feeling and has caused every one to want to wait and see what is going to happen. Men say it will do so and so, for the good of the community-they will fight ov- CT their views if need be, spend much ':'me and sweat over it, trying to con- vince us chat it is good thing but the same man is holding on the mon- 2y' he has notwithstanding his op- timistic views. There is much fool ishness about the agitat 'oin of the bridge. It is wonderful how foolish
 he public is at times. Calhoun said once that he public was damn fool That is true as gospel. The absolute ruth about the bridge building at least so far as this gees will neither do the harm it's advocates and non advo- cates assert. It will not help Pine Bluff so very much to have bridge over which pea vine, tram track, railway can pass over. though i. might help persons who hold fran chise. On the other hand it will not take any ones property away from them. It will never confiscate any, body's property Every innovation ev- en though it be for the very best is bitterly assailed-for the reason that man is prone to follow where his great grandfather marked the groove. But whether it will be the bes", CT not the best, leave to those who at least think they know more about 1t than the writer. What I do assert that either the building of the bridge or not building it, will do as II uch harm as this everlasting harping about it. The biggest thing tha+ can be done for this city is to settle the 1uestion ole way or another a. once. Either abandon it or build it. We arc famil' ar with the 1leighborhood fight that happened some years ago in Kansas. It was brought about by a natent cat teaser. This cat teaser was a three ccrnered piece of tin which should be nailed on the fence in such g manner that when the wind blew the teaser would tease, sigh and scream, and ffightsned the cats off the fence. Just how it came near break, ing up the neighborhood into fact 'ons and feuds we don't know. It was only settled and quieted. when it was learned definitely that when cats hold their most vociferous bete-te- tetes it was after they had adjourn ed from the fenc,a to a more seclud- ed and shadowy spot under the rose bush. Prosperity only flows down peaceful streams. It is far better to have no lridgel than the agitation ov- CT t and it is better to go ahead aud build it than the ill will and harm which will flow from it's constant agitation. The agitation of anything in any community stiles business be- cause all want to wait and see what is going to happen" I say for God sake let us stop in some way this agitation and get down to business, md stop advertising this city as dead The bankers and Business men are saying that the town is dead and it will surely see the fulfillment of their prophecy not because of it's building or not building but because Bill Smith vii lcrawl in his hole and posi- lively refuse to buy anything except what he must actually have to live on, and those who have money will put death grip on it, tn at you could not loosen up if you offered it's value in gold bullion.
 W. B.. SORRELLS.