The Mena weekly star., 1913-02-06

]. \. HeiskeH, editor of the Ar kansas Gazette, on returning from his 22-day term in the United States senate, made a short address to his confreres that was a credit to himself and to his state. Fol lowing are some Of his words:
 T came by the senatorship by the easy way of appointment by the governor. 1 did not have to gC through the storm and stress, or might even say, the rough and tum- ble of a statewide, popular pri- mary, which, under normal condi- tions. is the arbiter of political fate in Arkansas. And 1 can assure sena- tors who have never had that ex- perience that when a man gets a senatorShip as a result of pop ular primary, he Is fairly entitled 10 enjoy to the fullest extent all its honOrs and emoluments.
 We have, indeed, in the popular primary states, a government of the people. and I affirm my faith in that government. even though there are some persons in these states who are apprehensive at what may befall us from the votes of those electors who are dubbed with the uncouth terms of Red Neck and Hill Billy And what is Hill Bill ly?
 What Really Is "The Public?"
 He is one of the thousands and thousands of white men poor in the goods of this world, the very foun- dation course of the structure of human society, who work at the trades of the countryside or culti- vate small farms in the sweat of their own brows; whose greatest in- terests in this world are home, school, church and their country.
 If these men are sometimes mis- led, the fault is not so much with them as with him who perverts his talents and abuses his powers upon their honest hearts and open minds.
 Tt is natural tlrat they should be moved and influenced by one who goes among them dressed, maybe, somewhat in their own garb, even though he may have assumed that dress for the purpose of that ex- press excursion; who can talk to them in their own words and phrases; who can comfort them in their troubles and rejoice with them in their simple joys; who can actually, or in effect, put his arm around them and make them feel that he is their friend and their de- fense. For the inequalities of social and economic conditions always yearn for a voice to cry their pro- test.
 As it was in Greece and Rome so it is with us today-he who has consummate skill to put himself in the place of a champion of the people is not merely a well known and popular man; he becomes 8 sentiment, a belief, a creed and 8 conviction.
 Need Not Fear These Men.
 But if anyone fears that these masses of men may lay violent hands upon the historic fabric oi our institutions let him remember that the day may come when theiI true American bone and fibre will make them a fortress and a strong hold for all those things this nation holds most dear.
 MT. President, one of the great figures in the history of the senate said in speaking of his state: I shall enter on no enconmium upOT Massachusetts. She needs none There she is. Behold her and judgC for yourselves.
 State Not Understood.
 And may say that my state ol Arkansas needs no enc0mium. ShC needs only to be seen and to b, known, for it has been the singular misfortune of Arkansas to bt misused, misadvertised, misunder- stood and misinterpreted. Because we have areas of lowlands along with our highlands, our hills anC our mountains, some persons who are unacquainted with the state art accustomed to speak of it as place of swamps. For the most par those lowlands are not swamps al all.
 They are covered with towns anC plantations or are lands that can bC reclaimed for farms and home: with the simplest works of drain age and are being so reclaimed by local enterprise. But swamp is { ready and an an easy word which gratifies the human appetite for ; touch of derogation, and is offer chosen by the tongue in preference to more accurate, if less satisfying terms of description.
 You have heard the fearsoms formula of the political economis about the pressure of population or the means of subsistence. But 1T Arkansas so many crops may b. raised in the same year on the sam, ground. and so bountiful is thu earth that the trouble is rather tn, pressure of the means of subsist- ence upon the population.
 The Arkansas That Is.
 Rich in all the things that make a state both strong and great anC bring it the most substantial ant enduring prosperity, Arkansas ma, we'll rest content in the sure ana