The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-06-11
OXYGEN AND STATE POLITICS.

many years have been driving Uleu spln-uPPoo oA ~
Ito her side is ready to endure announcer c''ip"s civ
Prepare for the eventualities.
Sef-ubricating gubernatorial bulls are beginning
Ito below in the lowlands and paw turf IN Iile ~
Political goats are being sheared the liquor +h H.
Iterests are counting odds with view TO lenahg 'I
patriotic aid where it will count most strongly Tor me
Honorable John Barleyco1n and statesmen nov ou
ling fairly good jobs probing around IN tne e ~
the old ship OF state to see II any % bpve heen On
necessary Some of them, indeed, VINO nave oeen vi
the pay roll long that the memory OF earg on 4b+
lest living runs not to the contrary feel ue ca y: %
better job and are casting about Tor al "
grab another without losing grip upon the present.
Among those who are going to push putty ana COD
webs and salt and soothing fluids into the gaping WOUNDS
|of the PROSTATE form will be found statesmen u Ie
rarest rays; of exceptional Abilities ana Wohoel
achievement who without any visible means OF support
other than meagre salary have SUCCEEDED III lla'i
ing themselves in luxury and ease
Some indeed, have had cash to spare ana nave
travelled over much of the state in response to invitations
requesting the honor of their presence at plcncs ana
pie suppers footwashings, and "dedicatons. ,:,,o.
Some own bank stock and are drawing DIVIDENDS;
some own homes-which every we'll regulated man
should owl-and some own regulations that would make
criminal turn green with envy and long tor just one
chance at politics in order to prove his superior q1a1
cations for pelf.
Some own larynx and lungs and tracheas that are as
pabe as India rubber and stretch like Atlantic cable
in the bamy waters Of Brazil They are especially quah-
fled at most anything disconnected with work. but spe
cialze in brothery love and friendship Some who are
having their shoes hafsoed for service in stump work
deeply enamored of the dear people that actual
ly pains them to ward-heeler barkeeper out
of job One in particular is exponent of human lib
critics, patriot of personal freedom the real 24-carat
Long live King Alcohol champion of local option His
heart bleeds for those popuous centers where the gog
shop door is rusing closed hinges, and where the
wine that is red has ceased to flow He will scale the
pnnacles of Arcadia and Elysium to show the injustice
of passing obligatory prohibition laws or else ne will
hide behind sophstry of verbal nothingness during the
campaign, seeking the support of all peoples, and will
later act for the liquor interests when service will be OF
value.
1t would SEEM from expressions given utterance in
many of the states best newspapers that realization
of the damnable impotency of mental and moral med-
ocres in high places has thoroughly impressed itself
upon the people of Arkansas during the past few years
that real change for the better may come; yet
ture the assertion that for few of poage in
the form of state printing honest conviction will be bar
tered and sold freely during the next few weeks as
though newspaper editorial space were commodity to
be measured in dollars and cents instead of Independent
manhood.
1t is time the masses-those who have been cor
rallied and herded and voted like sheep since Jeff Davis
ism contaminated the sate-awakened to realization
of the fact that state government is not game to be
played by political factions, but science of deeper sig
ntlcance than farming or banking raising hell. The
man with the widest mouth and the longest reach be-
tween chin and chest nearly always make the loud
est noise but it doesn't necessarily follow that he can
make state warrants bring par, equaze the burdens
of taxation.
The coming battle of wits between designing poll
tcians and real patriots to the farmers, the
merchants the bankersthe citizenship of the most mis-
eraby msmanaged state in the unon-than any election
in recent years. The point has been reached where
definite financial policy must be mapped out, and
man must occupy the gubernaorial chair who has the
ability and the to that the plan is enacted into
law We do not know what this measure should be
the writer is not statesman, neither student of civil
government of sufficient information to make
suggestion based upon acknowledgement do know that
morally and financially the state of Arkansas, from the
standpoint of government, is joke in the minds of in
telligent The state has been turned body and
SOUL exchequer and records vault and keys to cheap
lot of state officialsnot all, but majorty-as
danged their childish ideas and meaningless prae be-
fore the vision of OUTRAGED peOnle Conditions have