Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-02

time, labor, the great handmaid of capital, in the construction of noble edifice of economic fact, should re- ceive the just reward of honesty and should be given fuller recognition in better wages, better sanitary condi- tions and shorter working hours.
 Must Live At Home.
 aN hsmuc:l as agriculture is our basic industry, we should lend to the various agencies that are making for profitable farming, rotation of crops, study of the chemistry of the soil and wise seed selection, our most en- thusiastic approval and liberal aid. Arkansas should feed herself and the estimated saving of S30,000,000 with in the past two years by the profitable farming agencies carried on by our various agricultural institutions and organizations merits the stately eulogy of Senator Conkling upon President Grant, Great in the arduous greatness of things done.' As abso- lutelv necessary to the conservation | as we'll as the development of our rich farm lands in Easter hand South eastern Arkansas, we should cooper ate with our United States senators and congressman in securing the passa"e of the pending Flood Relief | bill and legislation for the strengthen ing of our levees. The alluvial lands of Eastern Arkansas are as rich as Egypt, the gift of the Nile, and should receive consideration both from the national and the legislative districts. In order to lower the rate of interest and to permit farmers to. make loans upon mortgaged lands, our represen- tatives in congress, as well as our en- tire citizenship, should heartily CO., operate with President Wilson and the national congress in securing desir- able rural credits legislation at this S session of congress.
 Elect Levee Boards.
 "I can say that the citizenship of Eastern Arkansas is much more com- petent to pass on the mooted question of an elective versus an appointive levee board than I am.2 In the expres- sion of my own views there shall never be an pride of opinion nor the egotism of the ipse dixit but because the theory of taxation without repre- sentation is fundamentally contrary to the genius of American institutions and because the taxpayers of Eastern Arkansas in mass meeting and through their representatives ill both branches of the legislature, have voiced the sentiment that the "A direc- tors of the St. Francis levee board should be elected, and l shall recom- mend the support of such policy by the next general assembly:
 No Liquor Agitation.
 Hand in hand with the develop ment of our material resources and our educational progress there should go moral reawakening, for it is as that
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 "No people have ever risen higher than their moral ideals and we should congratulate ourselves upon the taken place in Arkansas within recent years. I believe that our legislature acted wisely in passing the statewide prohibition bill, and as firm believer in the wisdom of this policy and in the theory that An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,' I am unalter- ably opposed to it's further agitation Furthermore, I shall rigidly enforce the prohibition law now on the statute books, and shall cooperate with local officials and use the whole power of the governors office to see that no subterfuge or evasion of it is permit ted.
 Voting Away From Home.
 "In the past proper recognition has not been given to the needs of our splendid travelling men and the rail- road men. The major portion of the 4,000 travelling men and the 600 rail road men in Arkansas are disfran- chised at every election by virtue ot the fact that they are required to vote at the polls of their legal resi- dence. In justice to them and in view of the successful experience of a greater flexibility in the election laws in such states as Kansas, Missouri and Texas, am convinced that our cleo tion laws should be so amended so as to permit every bona fide citizen of the state, holding g poll tax receipt properly stamped and countersigned by the elction judge where the ballot is cast, to vote in all state and national elections away from home, provided he votes within the state. Furthermore believe that the travelling men of this state are entitled to a hotel in spector, paid by fees collected from each hotel examined, in order to prop . erly enforce the sanitary regulations now on our statute book and to safe guard the health and life of the trav- cling men.
 ' Pensions. For Veterans. ]; Arkansas should never fail tc honor the brave men who wore the gray with hearts of gold, who during the trying days of the civil war placed their bodies as living breastworks be. tween their convictions and those who honestly entertained opposite views. It is not disparaging to the valor of a soldier who fought to make this 'an indestructable union of indis- soluble states to honor in their de. clining years the brave Confederate soldiers, and during my administra.