The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-04-02
THE WEEKLY sor1pHoNE pARAeoULD ARK 1915

sorIpHoNE PARAGoULD ARK, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1915
holders and officeseekers who splitting and spuer-
ing and sweating and groaning and signing and labor
ing the fellows who insist that people have I'M
Willingly swallowed whole house full Of gubernatona
cascare-these fellows ought to tell you how that
in the early hours following the contest between Brn-
ddge and Judge Hays they connived for the defeat OF
regularly elected official how the state disgraced
by farcical STEAL and how some of the very patriots
who today making the Wekln ring with vtuperaton
were beneficiaries of this steal
If these fellows who stand before refectors and
while reviewing their own personalities vanly imagine
dnasseur is confronting them-f these heroes OF SO
many political battles would be calm and patient and
frank they would reduce this loud noise we hear to
mild conversational tone and admit that the late lament
ed legislature ought have had better than shout
der upon Gov. Hays responsibilities greater than he
could bear.
1t was nothing short of financial reashness for our
awmaing departments to spend their entire time legis
ating money out of the treasury without making an
opening somewhere in the system large enough
to guarantee the wherewithal for meeting these eXpend
lures. Every general assembly which has convened since
Jeff Davis ravshed the state has had ample opportunity
to provide revenue system equal to the states emer
gencies. Donaghey while governor, realized the imme
date need for changes and in 1909 convened the egs
ate in extraordinary session for the purpose of passing
the Tmner-Jacobson Be it said to the credit OF
that legislature that honest effort exerted to re-
wise the states financial budget No sooner, however,
had this work been accomplished than the peststhe pol
-whetted up their instruments for an assault
They didn't exactly know what they were going to as
sault. They didn't know what the Tumer-Jacobson bill
would do if it went into effect. They didn't know any
thing except three meals day at first class hotel IN
Little Rock drinks after meals and that here was an OPP
portuny to appeal to the farmers with statistics 1t was
fe-sized bugaboo-a phantom of great pith and en-
terprise. Some of them whose trachias had not been
touched up with anything except beer since the peced-
ing campaign went into verbal training as eamety as
Jack Johnson preparing for Willard Some crawled out
of the red light district took few rounds of 600 and
fell to- Headed by that nght-hand man of Friend Ga
brel-the finished product in oratOry the Honorable Joe
T. Robinson they went upon the hustngs and proceeded
to make the people believe pack of lies as long as the
distance between TeXarkana and Memphis, allowing
for few laterals They 'invoked special dispersal
ton of justice and had the referred to the peo-
pe' whom they had harangued with bombastic nothing
ness And, quite naturally the people, defeated the
bill At least that is what the people thOught-but III
reality cotere of couple of dozen fouungers did the
work and claimed their everlasting heritage the con-
fidence and love of the common people, They stole the
peoples confidence, but, of course little thing like
that shouldn't be charged against them They made mu
sic and enertained they made the people whoop and
halloo and throw political fits and they got away with
the sWag.
Such damnable examples of perfdy are common in
Arkansas and until the people made to understand
that every and every legislative enactment which
changes levy isn't cudgel for their OPPRESSION the
same thing will happen next year and the next and the
next
Now let it be remembered that every Legislature since
that of 1909 has had ample opportunity to do something
for the financial relief of Arkansas But alas these
glorious bodies have been dominated so completely by
political influence that honest conscientious member
who earnestly desired to be creative and constructive
would have been neeed at and eered at and left at the